The argument for why the article's author thinks "the worst argument in the world" is invalid comes from a book by Alan Sokal, a physicist with a real chip on h

The argument for why the article's author thinks "the worst argument in the world" is invalid comes from a book by Alan Sokal, a physicist with a real chip on his shoulder against Postmodern philosophy. Sokal is perhaps best known for what has come to be known as the "Sokal Hoax": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_hoax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_hoax I strongly recommend anyone interested in this article and in learning about the more recent incarnation of the analytic/continental feud in philosophy read the articles Sokal has collected on his hoax: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html Outside these articles, Sokal and his sympathizers rarely acknowledge that there could even be any reasonable response to their allegations of buffoonary and charlatanism. Unfortunately for Sokal and his sympathizers, this pose leads to the conclusion that they are either inadvertently or deliberately ignorant of much of philosophy.