Professor Sokal's Bad Joke
Fish
Stanley
May
21
1996
New York Times [editorial]
http://www.nytimes.com/
fish-oped.html
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/15/specials/sokal-fish.html
http://www.nas.org/nassnl/3-5.htm#2
News From La La Land
American Physical Society
http://www.aps.org/
New England Section Newsletter
http://www.aps.org:80/units/SNENG/
http://www.aps.org:80/units/SNENG/news/NES-news-fall96-p14.html
1996
Fall
Alan Sokal's Homepage
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
Alan Sokal's Homepage
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
The Sokal Affair
Kuroki
Ken
http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/
http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/Sokal/
1996-1999
The best collection of Sokal related information on
the web.
Robert Siegel talks with Alan Sokal, a professor of
physics at New York University, about his parody of
practitioners of "science studies." He tells how he
deliberately wrote an article questioning the validity of
measuring physical "reality" using nonsensical phrases, and
submitted it to a well-respected academic journal. The editors
published it as a serious treatise, not realizing it was
written as a joke.
Interview with Alan Sokal
Siegel
Robert
NPR
http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/npr/nc6M15.html
Response to the Fish Op-Ed
Robbins
Bruce
Ross
Andrew
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
st2fish.html
May
5
1996
Fish
Transgressing the Boundaries
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2.html
1996
Summer
The initial article published in
social text.
Social Text
46/47
217-252
Three Laconians comment on the Sokal hoax
Vappereau
J.M
vhl.html
March
1997
Hajlblum
S.
Lew
R.
The 'Sokal Affair' Takes Transatlantic Turn
Dickson
David
ddickson.html
January
30
1997
Nature
385
Science Wars and the Need for Respect and Rigour
Editor
ntr13097.html
January
30
1997
Nature
385
373
Some thoughts on the Sokal/Text affair.
Weiner
Ben
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~bweiner/sokal.html
April
25
1997
Includes the reference to the semi-famous parody
physics article which Hans Bethe and others got accepted and
published in Die Naturwissenschaften in 1931.
An interview with Alan Sokal
Stangroom
Jeremy
http://www.philosophers.co.uk/noframes/issue4nf.htm
http://www.philosophers.co.uk/noframes/articles/sokalnf.htm
Autumn
1998
Philosophers Web Magazine
http://www.philosophers.co.uk
In Defense of Nonsense
Krauss
Lawrence
lkrauss.html
July
30
1996
New York Times [Ed]
http://www.nytimes.com/
Postmodernist Rhetoric Does Not Change Fundamental
Scientific Facts
Klotz
Irving M.
http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1996/july/opin_960722.html
July
22
1996
The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/
The Science Wars
Nelkin
Dorothy
dnelkin.html
http://www-physics.mps.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/sciandsoc/nelkin.html
July
26
1996
http://chronicle.com/
Chronicle of Higher Education
Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterword
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v020/20.2sokal.html
October
1996
Philosophy and Literature
20
2
Stanley Fish Visits Lagado U
WCD
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/lagado.htm
October
16
1996
Pomo Science
Johnson
Phillip E.
pjhnson.html
http://www.christianity.net/bc/6B6/6B6005.html
November
12
1996
A review of the Social Text "Science Wars" issue and
The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the
Twilight of the Scientific Age By John Horgan
Deconstructing the cheshire cat
Mathewes-Green
Frederica
fmthgr.html
http://www.star-telegram.com:80/news/doc/1047/1:RELIGION42/1:RELIGION42111396.html
November
13
1996
Suggests that "...the Sokal hoax is a great coup for
the proponents of reality..."
Religion News Service
Reaction to discussion with Alan Sokal at Syracuse
University
Vienneau
Robert
../info/csyrforum.html
November
12
1996
Reaction to 8 November 1996 discussion with Alan Sokal
at Syracuse University titled "Humanities, Natural Sciences,
Social Sciences: An Interdiscipinary Discussion, with guest
Alan Sokal"
Two Cultures or One?
Grobstein
Paul
Eleanor A. Bliss Professor of Biology at Bryn Mawr
College
pgrbstn.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu:80/sci_cult/TwoCultures.html
1996
serendip
Sokal betrays leftist cause with hoax
Mahon
James
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/96/12/02/08SokalBetrays.html
December
2
1996
Sokal's Hoax
Weinberg
Steven
weinberg.html
August
8
1996
The New York Review of Books
XLIII
13
11-15
The Sokal-Weinberg Theory of Reading.
Stolzenberg
Gabriel
Professor of Mathematics at Northeastern
University
gstolzen.html
1996
Fall
What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us
Boghossian
Paul A.
bog_tls.html
December
13
1996
Times Literary Supplement
14-15
Reply to Letters
Boghossian
Paul A.
bog2ful.html
January
10
1997
Boghossian's reply to Fuller's letter and
others.
Times Literary Supplement
Response to Paul Boghossian
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Sociology/staff/steve.htm
Fuller
Steve
ful2bog_tls.html
December
20
1996
Response to Paul Boghossian's original article in the
Times Literary Supplement.
Times Literary Supplement
17
Profess Transgression
Editors
june-nc.html
December
1996
New Criterion
The end of the affair
Eichman
Erich
erich.html
December
1996
New Criterion
Boundaries in the Sokal Affair.
Balouka
M.
http://www.webspawner.com/users/MBalouka/
1996
Fall
This affair provides a solid ground for studying the
relations between language and cultural categories, along with
an opportunity to examine the notions of fraud/transgression,
falsehood, and the role of the implicite part of
language.
Summary of articles from Le Monde
Marin
Emmanuel
emarin.html
January
1997
Professor Latour's Philosophical Mystifications
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/le_monde_english.html
Le Monde
A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4.ascii
http://www.linguafranca.com/9605/sokal.html
1996
May/June
Lingua Franca
62-64
http://www.linguafranca.com
Reply to Fish's NYT Op-Ed
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
skl2fish.html
May
1996
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Response to Sokal's initial Lingua Franca
article
Robbins
Bruce
Ross
Andrew
http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/socialtext/sokal.html
http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/Sokal/sokaltxt/00005.txt
May
1996
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Parody gives Duke Press unsettling dose of
reality
Stock
Christina
Staff Writer
http://www.nando.net/newsroom/nao/tri/051896/tri10_5148.html
May
18
1996
Raleigh News and Observer
Physicist's Slick Hoax Leaves Egg on Face of 'Progressive'
Academic Journal
Kamiya
Gary
gkamiya.html
May
17
1996
http://www.salon1999.com/media/media960517.html
Salon Online
Physicist Pens Parody, Fools Journal
Landsberg
Mitchell
glndsbg.html
http://www.sltrib.com:80/96/MAY/18/twr/00303812.htm
May
18
1996
Salt Lake Tribune
When wry hits your pi from a real sneaky guy
Rothstein
Edward
http://www.netarrant.net:80/news/doc/1047/1:SCIENCE22/1:SCIENCE22052796.html
May
27
1996
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show
Switzer
John
rlimbaugh.html
May
22
1996
Professor Stanley Fish expresses his outrage over the
practical joke that Alan Sokal played with his journal in a NY
Times Op-Ed piece
alt.fan.rush-Limbaugh
Physicist Opens Fire in the Science Wars
Wark
McKenzie
Prof. at Macquarie University
http://www.mcs.mq.edu.au/Staff/mwark/home/homepage.html
mwark.html
http://www.mcs.mq.edu.au/Staff/mwark/warchive/Australian-HES/cs-science-wars.html
May
24
1996
The Australian
Serious Prank in Scholarly World; Physicist's hoax essay
attacks the field of cultural studies
Claudio
Tito
tclaudio.html
May
27
1996
Los Angeles Times
B4
A Painful Sting Within the Academic Hive
Kimball
Roger
rkimball.html
http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/science/kimball-sting.html
May
29
1996
Wall Street Journal
Two Letters in the New Republic
Halpern
Mark
mhalpern.html
July
29
1996
The New Republic
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
How Real is Real? Reflections on the "Sokal
Debate
van Oort
Richard
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/anthropoetics/views/view45.htm
June
1
1996
anthropoetics
Reply to the Social Text editors' response
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.linguafranca.com/9607/9607toc.html
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/reply.html
July/August
1996
Both the Social Text Response and Sokal's reply were
published in the July/August 1996 issue of Lingua
Franca.
Lingua Franca
Academics get lesson in pseudo science
Bone
James
jbone.html
http://personal.the-times.co.uk:8080/
May
20
1996
The Times (UK)
On the case of the prankster physicist
Chapman
Gary
http://www.feedmag.com/96.06chapman/96.06chapman.html
June
6
1996
Feedmag Online
A commentary on Sokal's parody article in Social
Text
Sullivan
Michael C.
June
1996
http://nkrs465.math.siu.edu/~mike/Preprints/socialtext.html.
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
A Physics Prof Drops a Bomb on the Faux Left
Rosen
Ruth
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/rosen.html
May
23
1996
Los Angeles Times [Op-Ed]
Pomolotov Cocktail
Pollitt
Katha
http://www.thenation.com/issue/960610/0610poll.htm
June
10
1996
The Nation
Letter to the Editor
Ross
Andrew
ross2plt.html
June
17
1996
Response to Pollitt's article in The Nation
Post vs. Postmodern
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Sociology/staff/steve.htm
Fuller
Steve
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1848/sokal.htm
June
7
1996
(Probing, puncturing, and dissecting the conventional
wisdom of the Washington Post)
Response to Prof. Sokal's article in the Times Higher
Education Supplement
Ross
Andrew
ross2thes.html
June
17 - 22
1996
Times Higher Education Supplement
References from Virtual Physics
Koziol
Zbigniew
Spalinski
Michal
http://www.isisnet.com/MAX/science/physics/vp/vp04.html
June
15
1996
Hoax Article Yanks Academics' Legs
Omicinski
John
jomicinski.html
June
22
1996
Gannett News Service
The Nutty
Professor
Markowitz
Robin
http://home.earthlink.net/~rmarkowitz/sokal.html
June
1996
Cultural Studies Central
The Postmodern Emperor
Wheatley
R. H.
http://www.pookas.com/cols/col.05-31-96B.shtml
May
10
1996
What I Think
http://www.pookas.com
The Science Wars
McMillen
Liz
lmcmillen.html
June
28
1996
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Science
Fiction
Berkowitz
Peter
July
1
1996
Examines what ``...it say about the state of academic
life that leading scholars were unable to distinguish serious
argument from utter nonsense?''.
http://www.enews.com/magazines/tnr/archive/1996/07/berkowitz070196.html
http://www.enews.com/magazines/tnr/archive/07/berkowitz070196.html
The New Republic
Reality and Social Text
Robbins
Bruce
rbbns2itt.html
July
8
1996
Response to the 10 June 1996 editorial in In These
Times
In These Times
On Being Hoaxed
Robbins
Bruce
Co-Editor Social Text
rbbns2tkkn.html
July
15
1996
Tikkun
Swallow Hard: What Social Text Should Have
Done."
Rosen
Jay
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/jay_rosen.html
September/October
1996
Tikkun
59-61
Article written for the Notices of the American
Mathematical Society
Harrell
Evans
http://www.math.gatech.edu/~harrell/cult.html
July
19
1996
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Piltdown Man Wanders Halls
Andrews
George
May
14
1996
http://www.math.psu.edu/simpson/piltdown.html
The Centre Daily Times (State College,
Pennsylvania)
Comments on "Science Wars"
Meighan
Clement W.
Emeritus professor of anthropology at
UCLA
http://www.nas.org/nassnl/3-6.htm#3
May
22
1996
NAS Science News List
III
5
Deserted by Hillary, How to Click With Radicals
Seligman
Daniel
dseligman.html
July
8
1996
Fortune
134
1
Scientist Trolls for gullible academic fish
Seebach
Linda
seebach.html
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/seebach.html
May
12
1996
Nando Times (Pleasanton, California)
"Diversity," "cultural studies" & other
mistakes
Kimball
Roger
kimskl.html
May
1996
New Criterion
Peter Jones aims a custard pie at practitioners of
cultural studies and their pretentious gibberish
Jones
Peter
Lectures in Classics at Newcastle
University
pjones.html
May
1996
Postmodern Gravity Deconstructed, Slyly
Scott
Janny
http://www.nas.org/nassnl/3-5.htm#1
http://forums.nytimes.com/books/98/11/15/specials/sokal-text.html
May
19
1996
New York Times
Front Page
http://www.nytimes.com/
Romps Smite Don
Paul
Robert
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/paul.html
May
1996
A Letter to Lingua Franca
Sean
Carroll
http://itp.ucsb.edu/~carroll/lflet.html
May
1996
Whose Style? Whose Substance? - Sokal vs. Latour at the
LSE
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Sociology/staff/steve.htm
Fuller
Steve
http://www.cis.vt.edu/technoscience/98fall/98fall.htm#field
1996
Fall
A report on the 2 July 1998 Debate
Newsletter of the Society for Social Studies of
Science
Volume 11
Number 3
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of
Science
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan>
Bricmont
Jean
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312195451/darwinanddarwini/002-4245586-0670252
http://forums.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sokal-nonsense.html
December
1998
Revised English version of
Impostures Intellectuelles, USA Edition. NYT has first
chapter.
Is Paris Kidding? - The authors ridicule the
pseudoscientific blather of some famous post-modern
thinkers
Holt
Jim
http://forums.nytimes.com/books/98/11/15/reviews/981115.15holtlt.html
November
15
1998
New York Times on the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/
Reflections on the Science Wars
Levitt
Norman
http://www.human-nature.com/articles/levitt.html
October
4
1998
Human-Nature.Com
http://www.human-nature.com/index.html
The Science Wars Homepage
Science Wars Monitor
International
http://members.tripod.com/~ScienceWars/
1998
Mathematics and the "Science Wars"
Editors
http://www.ams.org/new-in-math/sciencewars.html
October
1998
e-MATH, The Web Site of American Mathematical
Society
Sokal Commentary and Discussion
Editor
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~nexa/sokal/
1998
H-NET, Humanities On Line
The Bielefelder `Science Wars' Petition: Science Wars
Historic Archive
European Association for the Study of Science
and Technology
http://www.chem.uva.nl/easst/Petition.html
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/sci-tech_1996/index.html#1387
October
1996
The Sokal Affair Page
Centre for Social Theory and
Technology
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/stt/sokal.htm
1996
Keele University, UK
Science studies and other forms of higher
superstition
Cycad Web Works
http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/science/
The Sokal Incident - A Physicist Investigates the
Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Postmodern Faux Left
Butterworth
Steve
http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~bworth/Reason/Sokal/index.html
1996
SOKAL page
Niemann
Hans-Joachim
http://rzhome.rrze.uni-erlangen.de:81/~sz1244/sokal.htm
In German
Vittorio Bertolini site
Bertolini
Vittorio
http://www.symbolic.parma.it/bertolin/sokal.htm
May
1996
An Introduction to 'Science Wars", Special Issue of
Social Text
Ross
Andrew
http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/socialtext/sciencewars.html
1996
Spring/Summer
46/47
Sokal 1
Albert
Michael
http://www.lbbs.org/ZMag/albert.htm
http://www.lbbs.org/zmag/articles/sokal1.htm
May
1996
Z Magazine
http://www.lbbs.org/
Controversy over Spoof of Radical Sociology of
Science
AIP
http://www.aip.org/history/spr96/sokal.htm
1996
Spring
AIP Center for History of Physics Newsletter
Physicist Hoaxes Academic Journal
UNKNOWN
http://www.ora.com/people/staff/sierra/flum/96.05.htm#039
May
1996
Flummery Digest
List Discussion
Progressive Sociologists Network
http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/Sokal/psn/index.html#jun96
May
1996
Eng-Info Mailing List
The Sokal Affair
EAS-INFO
http://www.yale.edu/engineering/eng-info/msg00119.html
May
1996
Philosophical spat mocks academia
Editors
http://www.daily.umn.edu/~online/daily/1996/06/11/editorial_opinions/ocontr.col/
June
11
1996
The Minnesota Daily Online
http://www.daily.umn.edu/
Impact of Sokal 'hoax' discussed by experts
Gordon
Devin
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/96/06/27/01ImpactOf.html
June
27
1996
The Chronicle Online (Duke)
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/
So-kalled wit
Editors
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/1996/06/27/10SoKalledWit.html
May
1996
The Chronicle (Duke)
Mystery Science Theater
Lingua Franca Readers
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/mstsokal.html
July/August
1996
Contains Letters from Evelyn Fox Keller, from
Steve Fuller, from
Paul Boghossianand Thomas Nagel, from Franco
Moretti, from Ellen Schrecker, from Peter Caws, from Teri
Reynolds, from David Layton, from Lee Smolin, ans from George
Levine.
Lingua Franca
What does Science Studies offer Science?
Capehart
Bill
http://www.hypermall.com/geekspk/logs/07-26-96.txt
May
1996
#GeekSpeak discussion.
Unpublished letter to The Chronicle of Higher
Education
Rothman
David
Rothman
Stanley
http://www.nas.org/nassnl/3-10.htm#5
1996
Coverage of the Sokal affair and the "science
wars"
A Plea for Reason, Evidence and Logic
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/nyu_forum.html
199
Winter
Transcript of a talk presented at a forum at New York
University on October 30, 1996.
New Politics
6
2
126-129
Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange
Holquist
Michael
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?1996100354E1
October
3
1996
An Exchange about Steven Weinberg's response to the
hoax by Michael Holquist, George Levine,
M. Norton Wise, Nina Byers, and
Steven Weinberg.
The New York Review of Books
SSSITALK Discussion List
SSSITALK
http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/SSSITALK/fall96/index.html#45
http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~archives/SSSITALK/sssitalk.html
September
1996
Is modern physics the best example of socially
constructed reality?
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interation
Science smiling
into its beard, or first full-dress encounter with evil
Parcelli
Carlo
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1848/musil.htm
September
1996
(Probing, puncturing, and dissecting the conventional
wisdom of the Washington Post), before 7 Octorber 1996, maybe
September 1996.
A Third Culture
Kilgore
De Witt Douglas
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr3/kilgore.html
1996
Fall
Review of ``Technoscience and Cyberculture'' edited by
Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinsons, and Micahael Menser, New
York: Routledge 1996.
electric book review 3
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr3/ebr3.htm
Hook Line and Stinker
Peterson
David
http://www.lbbs.org/zmag/articles/sept96peterson.htm
September
1996
Z Magazine
Albert
Michael
http://www.lbbs.org/ZMag/albert.htm
http://www.lbbs.org/ZMag/articles/sept96albert.htm
September
1996
Z Magazine
http://www.lbbs.org/
Postmodernism and its problems with science
Bricmont
Jean
http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/Sokal/bricmont.tex
http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/Sokal/bricmont.dvi
http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/Sokal/bricmont.ps
1996
Fall
LaTeX file written in the fall of 1996 for Archimedes,
a journal for science teachers in Finland.
Archimedes
T. H. Huxley and Steven Weinberg: Science and Culture at
a Century's Distance
Carroll
Joseph
http://www.gatech.edu/sls/sls-96/session_6/carroll.html
September
3
1996
Society for Literature and Science, Annual Conference
1996
A Mathematician Reads Social Text
Sullivan
Michael C.
http://www.ams.org/publications/notices/199610/comm-sullivan.html
1996
Fall
AMS
1127-1131
http://www.ams.org/
Reports on Science Wars
AMS
http://www.ams.org/
http://www.ams.org/publications/notices/199610/199610-toc.html
October
1996
The Notices of the American Mathematical Society
http://www.ams.org/publications/notices/
Ig-niting Controversy
Abrahams
Marc
http://www.the-scientist.lib.upenn.edu/yr1996/oct/notebook_961028.html#note4
October
18
1996
The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.lib.upenn.edu/
Anatomy of a Hoax
Robbins
Bruce
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/robbins_tikkun.html
September/October
1996
Tikkun
58-59
Truth or Consequences: A Brief Response to
Robbins
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/sokal_tikkun.html
November/December
1996
Tikkun
58
History of Consciousness Board
Epstein
Barbara
http://www.lbbs.org/zmag/articles/oct96epstein.htm
October
1996
Z Magazine
A Review of E.D. Hirsch, Jr.'s The Schools We Need &
Why We Don't Have Them, New York: Doubleday, 1996
Saxe
David Warren
http://www.edexcellence.net/library/saxe.html
November
1996
Network News & Views
'Social Text' author to defend controversial article
today
Staff Reports
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/1996/11/21/03SocialText.html
November
21
1996
News Briefs (Duke)
Professor critiques post-modernist thinkers
Thomas
Ed
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/1996/11/25/01ProfessorCritiques_p01.html
November
25
1996
With photo of Alan Sokal
The Chronicle Online
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/
Strict core impedes education of motivated
students
Reed
Jeb
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/1996/12/03/07StrictCore.html
December
3
1996
The Chronicle Online
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/
Sci-Tech-Studies Mailing List
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/sci-tech_1996/
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/sci-tech_1996/1491.html
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/sci-tech_1996/1499.html
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/sci-tech_1996/1519.html
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/sci-tech_1996/1533.html
December
1996
Disscussion about the famous silly quotes from
Derrida. Rudolph Valentine Dusek, Alan Sokal, Gabriel
Stolzenberg.
Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterword
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/afterword_v1a/afterword_v1a_singlefile.html
1996
Fall
Appeared in slightly different form, in Philosophy and
Literature 20(2), pp. 338-346 (October 1996).
Dissent
43
4
93-99
http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent
Alan Sokal's ``Transgression
Aronowitz
Stanley
http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent/archive/winter97/aronosok.html
1997
Winter
(with Alan Sokal Reply)
Dissent
44
107-110
http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent/
Alan Sokal Replies [to Stanley Aronowitz]
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/sokal_reply_to_aronowitz.html
1997
Winter
Dissent
44
1
107-110
http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent/
The Science Wars in India
Nanda
Meera
http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent/archive/winter97/nanda.html
1997
Winter
Dissent
44
1
http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent/
My Science Wars
Fromm
Harold
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/fromm.html
1997
Winter
The Hudson Review
XLIX
4
599-609
Postmodernism and the Left
Epstein
Barbara
http://www.wilpaterson.edu/~newpol/issue22/epstei22.htm
1997
Winter
Whole no. 22
New Politics
6
2
http://www.wilpaterson.edu/~newpol/
Y
a-t-il une science aprs la guerre froide?
Latour
Bruno
http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/
http://www.libe.fr/sokal/latour.html
January
18
1996
Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/
Professor Latour's Philosophical Mystifications
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/le_monde_english.html
January
31
1997
[Published, under the title "Why I wrote my parody"
and with the unfortunate omission of a key paragraph]
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/le_monde.html
Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/
The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize
Editors
http://walk.pci.on.ca/~dgilbert/ignobel/96/
1996
The editors of the journal "Social Text," for eagerly
publishing research that they could not understand, that the
author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality
does not exist.
Literature
Two Culture Redo
Druckrey
Timothy
http://www01.ix.de/tp/english/special/mem/2096/1.html
January
7
1997
``But It Is Above All Not True'': Derrida, Relativity,
and the ``Science Wars''
Plotnitsky
Arkady
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/issue.197/plotnitsky.197.html
January
1997
With abstract.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/issue.197/abstracts.197.html
Postmodern Culture
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/
7
2
Science and Its Critics
Organizers
http://kuhep4.phsx.ukans.edu/~baringer/scicrit.html
1996
Announcement of a meeting to promote dialogue between
the ``two cultures'', University of Kansas, Kansas Union
Building, Big 12 Room, February 28-March 2, 1997.
What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not
Prove
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/noretta.html
April
8
1997
A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths
about Science
http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0195117255.html
Noretta Koertge
Oxford University Press
Author of hoax article defends his decision
Donohue
Andrew
http://www.daily.umn.edu/daily/1997/04/14/news/sokal/
April
14
1997
The Minnesota Daily Online
http://www.daily.umn.edu/
The Science Wars
Begley
Sharon
Rogers
Adam
April
21
1996
http://www.tamu.edu/cbpe/nl/nl6_6.html
Review of that volume in The Center for Science and
Technology Policy and Ethics Newsletter Volume 6 Number 6
May/June 1997.
Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/
The So-Called Science Wars And Sociological
Gravitas
Gross
Paul R.
http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1997/apr/opin_970428.html
1996
28 April 1997.
The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/
The babble and squeak of academe
Maxwell
Bill
http://www.jrnl.com/news/97/Nov/jrn89051197.html
1996
5 November 1997
Prince William Journal
http://www.jrnl.com/news/97/Nov/indexPW051197.html
The Sokal Affair: A Postscript
Social Text
http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/socialtext/1997.html#50
1996
#50, spring/1997.
Social Text
Science Studies: Beyond the
Social Texthoax
Atkinson-Grosjean
Janet
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.3/grosjean.html
1997
Spring
In Issue 2.3 Sciences & Humanities: Special
Section.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.3/index.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.3/special.html
21stC
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/
Is the Enlightenment out of fashion?
Cole
Jonathan R.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.3/cole.html
1996
21stC,
Issue 2.3 Sciences & Humanities:
Counterpoint, Spring 1997.
Subjectivity in Science
UNKNOWN
http://naturalscience.com/ns/articles/comment/ns_com03.html
1996
Commentary in a World-Wide Web Jornal
naturalSCIENCE, 1 May 1997. The author said, "Logically, it
is quite possible that there is nothing but our consciousness
(the writers anyway), albeit of things that seem to imply an
external world."
The Science Wars Flare at the Institute for Advanced
Study
McMillen
Liz
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/stt/sokal/chron.txt
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/0306.html
1996
The rejection of a Princeton professor divides
scholars at the center that was once Einstein's intellectual
home, published in
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, 16 May 1997. Lawrence Busch forward of Liz
McMillen's article: ``The Science Wars Flare at the Institute
for Advanced Study'' (from the Chronicle of Higher Ed., 16 May
1997), 27 May 1997.
From the Sokal affair to the Wise scandal
Latour
Bruno
http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/stt/sokal/latour.htm
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/0302.html
1996
Reply to Liz McMillen's article above, 21 May 1997.
Val Dusek, Forward of Bruno Latour's reply to Liz McMillen's
article: ``From the Sokal affair to the Wise scandal'' (21 May
1997), 26 May 1997.
Akinetic Cosmology
Michaelis
Martin L.
http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/~h720/headings/files/michaelis.html
1996
Reply to Alan Sokal's Transgressing the Boundaries,
May 1997, in
T.
Ward's page of the Sokal Affairat
the School of
Mathematics,
University of East
Anglia
Announcement of ``Across the Cultural Wars
Trenches''
Berube
Michael
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/millerc_archiveSP97.html
1996
Archive of Spring 1997 MillerComm Events for
MillerComm
Lecture Seriespublished by
Center for Advanced
Study at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
The Humanities Crisis: Biography to the Rescue
Reynolds
David S.
http://thehamptons.com/words/reynolds/humanities_crisis.html
1996
In
Wordsat
thehamptons.com. This web
page had been created before 26 May 1997.
Comments on the latest Latourian outburst
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Sociology/staff/steve.htm
Fuller
Steve
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/0303.html
1996
27 May 1997.
The not so Wise decision
Busch
Lawrence
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/0304.html
1996
27 May 1997.
Re: The not so Wise decision
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Sociology/staff/steve.htm
Fuller
Steve
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/0305.html
1996
27 May 1997.
(Fwd) `Science peace' workshop at Southampton
Simon
Bart
http://vest.gu.se/vest_mail/0326.html
1996
5 June 1997.
When Did The Science Wars Start?
Theocharis
Theo
http://www.the-scientist.lib.upenn.edu/yr1997/june/let3_970609.html
1996
The
Scientist, 9 June 1997.
Splendours and Miseries of the Science Wars
Jardine
Nick
Frasca-Spada
Marina
http://www.elsevier.co.jp/inca/publications/store/3/0/5/8/6/
1996
28(2), 1997: 219-35.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
A Plea for Science Studies
Kitcher
Philip
http://www.larecherche.fr/FOR/SOKAL/kitcher.html
1996
1 June 1997, published in
A House
Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science,
edited by Noretta Koertge,
Oxford University Press,
Spring 1998.
Culture Relativism, Science Studies, and the Sokal
Affair
Risan
Lars
http://www.uio.no/~lrisan/Sokal/sokal.html
1996
http://www.uio.no/~lrisan/index.html 26 August
1997.
Book has Left Bank burning
MacIntyre
Ben
http://www.australian.aust.com/hied/fulltext/h1001f.htm
October
1
1997
http://www.australian.aust.com/hied/hied.htm
The Australian Online
http://www.australian.aust.com/index.htm
Physicists Take Philosophers to Task in Paris
Whitney
Craig R.
http://www.itk.ntnu.no/ansatte/Andresen_Trond/kk-f/fra090997/0494.html
1996
4 October 1997.
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Sokal-Bricmont: Non, ce n'est pas la guerre
Treiner
Jacques
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/treiner_Le_Monde_Oct_11_97.html
October
11
1997
Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/
Quel
imperialisme?
Krivine
Hubert
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/krivine_Le_Monde_Oct_11_97.html
October
11
1997
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/krivine_Le_Monde_Oct_11_97.html#english
Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/
Is French philosophy just a load of old tosh?
Henley
Jon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gweekly/frenchphilo.html
October
12
1996
The Guardian Weekly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gweekly/index.html
Goliath Again: "Flesh composed of suns! How can this
be?" - `Do Crossword Puzzles'
Brennan
Joe
http://www.flashpointmag.com/goliath.htm
October
14
1997
L'Affaire SOKAL: A Modest Intro in FlashPoint (Spring
1998, Web Issue 2).
http://www.flashpointmag.com/sokal.htm
FlashPoint
http://www.flashpointmag.com/
Are French thinkers lost in dromospace?
Henley
Sara
http://search.boston.com/globe/offbeat/daily/16/french.htm
October
16
1997
In Offbeat news.
http://search.boston.com/globe/offbeat/
http://search.boston.com/globe/
The Furor over Impostures Intellectuelles - What is the
fuss all about?
Bricmont
Jean
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Sokal
Alan
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/tls.html
October
17
1997
Published under the title "What is all the fuss
about?" The bibliographical footnotes did not appear in the
TLS, but are included here for the convenience of the
reader.
Times Literary Supplement (London)
17
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/
Open letter to Professor Alan Sokal
Rietdijk
C.W.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bcb/rietdijk1.html
November
23
1997
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bcb/rietdijk6.html
Science studies - what's wrong?
Bricmont
Jean
http://physicsweb.org/article/PW-10-12-07
December
1997
See also the Debate in PhysicsWorld.
http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/Sokal/#debate-pw
PhysicsWorld
10
12
http://physicsweb.org/toc
Science, psychoanalysis and post-modernism
Sauval
Michel
http://psiconet.com/acheronta/acheronta6/ciencia.htm
1996
published in the number 6 of the magazine
Acheronta,
December 1997. This article is written in Spanish in order to
explain a detail of the affair for the Hispanic public. But you
can also read
its English translation.
You can't follow the science wars without a battle
map
Editors
http://magazines.enews.com/magazines/economist/archive/971213-005.html
1996
The Economist, 13
December 1997.
Ad Scientiam: The Appeal to Science
Adams
Jon K.
http://node9.phil3.uni-freiburg.de/AdScientiam.html
December
1997
Node9: An E-Journal of Writing and Technology. This
paper was given at the annual conference of the German Society
for American Studies and mainly about the rhetorical strategies
of scientists in the Science Wars, in particular, C.P. Snow,
Alan Sokal, Jerry King, Paul Gross and Norman Levitt, and
Steven Weinberg.
Node9
http://node9.phil3.uni-freiburg.de/
Closet Conservatives
Editors
http://www.slate.com/Egghead/98-01-20/Egghead.asp
1996
Egghead: News from academe, 20 January 1998,
Slate
Magazine.
Valeurs et Normes Cognitives
Mulligan
Kevin
http://peccatte.karefil.com/SBPresse/MagazineLitteraireKM011998.html
1996
Magazine Litteraire, n 361 janvier 1998, pp. 78-79.
See also
Mulligan's Book Review of Impostures
Intellectuelles.
Taking candy from a baby? - Spoofer Alan Sokal and Jean
Bricmont target
Impostures Intellectuelles
Holderness
Mike
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980214/review1.html
1996
New Scientist,
Vol. 157 No. 2121, 14 Febuary 1998.
Sokal demonstrates lack of communication in scientific
societies
Padmanabhan
Vivek
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/1998/02/24/09SokalDemonstrates.html
1996
The Chronicle
Online, 24 February 1998.
Voices from the Collective: Left Conservatism
Editors
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/36/voices.html
1996
Bad Subjects,
Issue #36,
February 1998.
Transforming Nature
Gorman
Michael E.
http://repo-nt.tcc.virginia.edu/book/book.html
1996
Kluwer Academic Press, expected publication September
1997, last edited at 24 February 1998. See Chapter 2.2:
The Scientific Method: Road to Truth or Superstitious
Practice?
Stanley Fish at Lagado University
De Long
J. Bradford
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Teaching_Folder/Fish.html
1996
10 March 1998.
Undressing the Emperor - Physicist and Social Text
prankster Alan Sokal fires another salvo at thinkers in the
humanities
Mukerjee
Madhusree
http://www.sciam.com/1998/0398issue/0398profile.html
1996
Scientific American,
March 1998.
Left Conservatism: A Conference Report
Wray
Matt
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/37/wray.html
1996
Bad Subjects,
Issue #37,
March 1998.
Science-envy: Sokal, science and the police
Robbins
Bruce
http://crane.ukc.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/rp/toc/88comm.html
1996
Radical Philosophy- A journal of socialist and feminist
philosophy,
No. 88, Mar/Apr 1998.
The Real Answer to Post-Modern Multiculturalism
Lipkin
Harry J.
http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0498/041098.html
1996
APS Letters,
The American Physical
Association:
APS News,
Volume 7, No.
4, April 1998.
What's wrong with relativism?
Collins
Harry
http://physicsweb.org/article/PW-11-04-10
April
1998
PhysicsWorld,
Volume 11, No.
04, April 1998.
Striking back at sociology
Barradas
Nuno
http://physicsweb.org/article/PW-11-05-02
May
1998
http://physicsweb.org/toc/11-05
PhysicsWorld
11
5
http://physicsweb.org/toc
Book Review: Impostures Intellectuelles
Mulligan
Kevin
http://naturalscience.com/ns/books/book04.html>
1996
first published in the
Times Literary
Supplementon 1 May 1998 and reproduced in
naturalSCIENCEon 23 May 1998. See also
Valeurs et Normes Cognitives.
Responses to the Sokal Affair: Toward a Dialog
UNKNOWN
http://node9.phil3.uni-freiburg.de/Response.html
1996
Node9, An
E-Journal of Writing and Technology, Volume 2, 8 June 1998.
Responses to
Ad Scientiamand Jon Adams' Replies.
Le pauvre Sokal
Sturrock
John
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Sturrock,%20John
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20n14/stur2014.htm
November
14
1998
London Review of Books
20
14
http://www.lrb.co.uk/newindex.htm
Debate in
Readers
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20n15/lett2015.html
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20n16/lett2016.html
1998
London Review of Books
http://www.lrb.co.uk/
Postmodernism Disrobed
Dawkins
Richard
http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/
http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/postmoderism_disrobed.htm
July
9
1998
A book review of Intellectual Impostures (by A. Sokal
and J. Bricmont).
Nature
394
6689
141-143
http://www.nature.com/
Book Review of
Norris
Christopher
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/av-search/q="Christopher+Norris"/002-8417220-4932255
http://www.independent.co.uk/books/stories/BR001483.htm
July
18
1998
The Independent Books
http://www.independent.co.uk/books/index.htm
Intellectual Impostures
Harter
Richard
http://www.tiac.net/users/cri/
http://www.tiac.net/users/cri/imposter.html
August
1
1998
What is Academia for?
de Botton
Alain
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/academia_for/index.html
August / September
1998
Prospect
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/
Revenge on Postmodernism
Editors
http://physicsweb.org/article/web-1998-08-14-02-21-01
August
14
1998
PhysicsWeb
http://physicsweb.org/
Imposteurs intellectuelles--A Book Review
Faris
William
http://www.ams.org/notices/199807/review-faris.pdf
1996
Notices of the AMS,
Volume 45, Number 7, August 1998. Available in
PDFand
PSformats.