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Some people find this disturbing and an indemnification of the humanities. (Being, as a whole, an intellectual fraud). I do not find this incident particularly
by ohyes 16y ago
Some people find this disturbing and an indemnification of the humanities. (Being, as a whole, an intellectual fraud). I do not find this incident particularly disturbing, and I don't think it says much about the humanities.
The journal in question isn't even peer reviewed. That certain non peer reviewed journals are desperate for content and have low standards for publication isn't exactly shocking.
He wrote a crappy article for a crappy journal, that no one would have even known about, had he not widely publicized it as a 'hoax'.
- microarchitect 16y ago> The journal in question isn't even peer reviewed. If wikipedia is to be believed the journal switched to a peer review based process due to the Sokal affair. > He wrote a crappy article for a crappy journal, Clearly it's a crappy journal, but unfortunately it's associated with some big names like Duke [1] and Columbia [2]. > I do not find this incident particularly disturbing, and I don't think it says much about the humanities. Maybe not Sokal's article, but certainly their books says a lot about the humanities. As Sokal, Bricmont and Dawkins and many others have pointed out many of these big names in the humanities were simply talking out of their a. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Text [2] http://www.socialtextjournal.org/about/index.php#contact http://www.socialtextjournal.org/about/index.php#contact
- michael_dorfman 16y agoAs Sokal, Bricmont and Dawkins and many others have pointed out many of these big names in the humanities were simply talking out of their a. Actually, as often as not, it was Sokal, Bricmont, and Dawkins (and many others) who were talking out of their ass, egregiously and gratuitously misreading (or not reading at all) the "big names in the humanities" they were attacking. For one particularly well documented instance, see: http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.197/plotnitsky.197 http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.197/plotnitsky....
- kd0amg 16y agoThe journal in question isn't even peer reviewed. Was it therefore regarded by those in that field at the time as almost a vanity press? Or did they consider it a respectable, reputable journal?
- prodigal_erik 16y ago(I think "indictment" is the word you were looking for, because "indemnification" would be an agreement to compensate for damages.)
- ohyes 16y agothank you for correcting me, sometimes I just throw words about recklessly.