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The fact that sokal was wrong doesn't mean that science criticism has offered anything more useful throughout all these years
by seydor 1y ago
The fact that sokal was wrong doesn't mean that science criticism has offered anything more useful throughout all these years
- viccis 1y agoThe problem is that his motivation was to critique "science criticism", but nothing about what he did did anything of the sort. He went about it with the same scientific rigor that one would expect from Derrida, Deleuze, Lacan, etc. Anyone can feel free to provide examples of this happening, but I don't think there has been significant impact on scientific rigor in top theoretical physics journals and conferences as a result of needling from postmodernists, either during Sokal's time or now. If anything, his identification of "the Left" as the biggest enemy of science was profoundly off base in retrospect.