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Author:
Sokal, Alan D., 1955-
Title:
Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy, and culture / Alan Sokal.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xxi, 465 p. ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Science--Collected Works.
Culture--Collected Works.
Philosophy--Collected Works.
Science--Philosophy.
Evidence.
Pseudoscience.
Fraud in science.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Social text affair. The parody, annotated -- Transgressing the boundaries : an afterword -- Truth, reason, objectivity, and the Left -- Science studies : less than meets the eye -- What the Social text affair does and does not prove -- Science and philosophy. Cognitive relativism in the philosophy of science -- Defense of a modest scientific realism -- Science and culture. Pseudoscience and postmodernism : antagonists or fellow travelers? -- Religion, politics and survival -- Epilogue: Epistemology and ethics.
ISBN:
0199239207 (alk. paper)
9780199239207 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)181926017
LCCN:
2008297511
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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