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  • 2 months ago | thecritic.co.uk | Alex Byrne |Alan Sokal

    We cannot judge ideas on the basis of the people who happen to hold them Writing two years ago in the London Review of Books, the philosopher Arianne Shahvisi told the following poignant story:In The Tempest, King Alonso’s adviser Gonzalo attempts to lighten the mood after the shipwreck by describing how he would organise the island. When I was twelve, we read the scene at school and were asked to reflect on the feasibility of his utopia.

  • Dec 29, 2024 | thecritic.co.uk | Alan Sokal

    A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness I wasn’t supposed to like this book — or perhaps even to read it. The publisher is Regnery, a notorious American right-wing outfit that publishes titles like ¡Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole, Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, and Hide Your Children: Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America’s Kids.

  • Jul 17, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Alan Sokal

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  • Jun 17, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Alan Sokal |Richard Dawkins

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  • May 21, 2024 | thecritic.co.uk | Alan Sokal

    Science — and that includes both the natural and the social sciences — is, or at least is supposed to be, a truth-seeking enterprise. The phenomena that one decides to study may be chosen for their conceptual significance, for their social or economic importance, or simply out of personal curiosity.

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