PHILOS 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sokal Affair
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L e c t u r e 1 6. Science painted as one way of knowing certain absolute truths about the world (what about art, literature, religion, faith, etc. ?) Basic issue: the scienti c way of knowing about the world is somehow special (the sokal. The critiques of science did not know enough science to criticize it, in order to be able to make certain arguments. If it had been written by somebody else. ~perhaps a non-physicist, there wouldn"t be anything wrong with it (?) We came up with something that is so ri- diculous and they think it"s right, so per- haps, the sokal hoax is not a problem un- der post-modernist standards. Beginning of the course: 2 tribes (faith based vs. science based) An appeal to technology ~ the physicist. Science seems great by its own standards, religion seems great by its own standards.
