“Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”
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Alan Sokal
Alan David Sokal is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
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science · American physicist and mathematician (born 1955) · mathematician · physicist · university teacher · also Alan Sokal, Alan David Sokal, Alan D.Sokal, Alan D Sokal, Alan D. Sokal, Sokal
Born 24 January 1955 · Q370022
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2026· 3 entries
“objective biological reality”
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“distort[ing] the scientific facts in the service of a social cause”
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2024· 1 entry
Sokal co-authored an opinion-editorial article in the newspaper The Boston Globe with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins criticizing the use of the terminology "sex assigned at birth" instead of "sex" by the American
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2013· 1 entry
Sokal co-authored a paper with Nicholas Brown and Harris Friedman, rejecting the Losada Line, a concept popular in positive psychology
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2008· 1 entry
Sokal reviewed the Sokal affair and its implications in the book Beyond the Hoax
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2007· 1 entry
Alan and Nathan Sokal were awarded Microwave Pioneer Award by IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society for "development of the class E power amplifier
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1997· 1 entry
By co-authoring the book Impostures Intellectuelles with physicist and philosopher of science Jean Bricmont (published in English, a year later, as Fashionable Nonsense)
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1996· 3 entries
When his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text
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Career landmark: Sokal affair.
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Sokal was curious whether the then-non-peer-reviewed postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text (published by Duke University Press) would publish a submission which "flattered the editors' ideological preconception
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1976· 1 entry
And his PhD from Princeton University in 1981
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-01-24.
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