Susan Haack: A Passionate Moderate
My two cents worth to Susan’s festschrift. classical liberalismEPISTEMEEpistemologyPeirceScientismSokal Hoaxsusan haacktestimony
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Knowledge in a Social World
It was twenty years ago today . . . since the publication of Alvin Goldman’s classic of sorts, a work that inspired myself and my chum, Chris Onof — and later with Alvin’s help — to set up EPISTEME. The Sokal hoax was another motivating factor. Alan SokalAlvin Goldmanchris onofEPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemologySokal Hoax
Who Rules in Science?
It’s the IYIs (technically speaking “bureaucrapic fuckwits”) who are deeming what is and what is not bona fide scientific knowledge — the decision handed down is seemingly an instance of an ignoratio elenchi. Some of the toughest-minded criticism of this generalized line of wooly thinking has surprisingly emanated from Canada in the form of James Robert Brown and André…
The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct
Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay perpetrate a Sokal-style hoax on gender studies. Alan SokalgenderJames LindsayMichael ShermerPeter Bogdanovichpost modernismregressive leftrelativismsocial constructivismSokal Hoax
Dennett on Truth
Dennett plugging his latest From Bacteria to Bach and Back. I’m with Dennett on this deeper analysis of where we are at just now and have been very concerned about this since Sokal. It was one of the primary motivations for my setting up EPISTEME. The problem, going back at least 30 years, has been that…
Debunking “The mathematics of happiness”
Alan Sokal weighs in again thanks to Nick Brown who was troubled by the conclusion that The mysteries of love, happiness, fulfilment, success, disappointment, heartache, failure, experience, random luck, environment, culture, gender, genes, and all the other myriad ingredients that make up a human life could be reduced to the figure of 2.9013. It’s quite astonishing…
