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Fashionable Nonsense

by Alan Sokal

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Dormant: Passages : Oh no! 14working, June 2007ignore
Dormant: Philosophy of Science : Applying II 83LolaWalser, June 2007 stop ignoring

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LolaWalser in Philosophy of Science : Applying Philosophy of Science II (May 30, 2007, 4:15pm)

... modern philosophers, the analyticals or whathaveyou, seems to like to think. The Sokal hoax (and that book he co-wrote, "Fashionable nonsense") was good for laughs, but in some ways it missed the point. For one thing, the problem of philosophical language is incommensurably greater than the ...

LolaWalser in Philosophy of Science : Applying Philosophy of Science II (May 30, 2007, 3:42pm)

... modern philosophers, the analyticals or whathaveyou, seems to like to think. The Sokal hoax (and that book he co-wrote, "Fashionable nonsense") was good for laughs, but in some ways it missed the point. For one thing, the problem of philosophical language is incommensurably greater than the ...

openset in Passages : Oh no! (Nov 22, 2006, 4:05pm)

I'll have to think about this one, but for now, here's a copout answer: Most of the quoted excerpts in Fashionable Nonsense made me cringe.

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