Quotes About Sokal

Sokal gave his piece a suitably portentous title: "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity." The text was a farrago of ludicrous claims about the

Many philosophers in the English-speaking world felt vindicated by the Sokal hoax. Although English-speaking philosophy had produced radical ideas about science, for the most part it had not accepted postmodernism and other French-influenced literary-philosophical movements.