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72 relations: Abortion-rights movements, Alan Sokal, All Things Considered, Andrew Ross (sociologist), Anthropology, Anti-intellectualism, Argument from authority, Axiom of choice, Bogdanov affair, Bruno Latour, Caricature, Chip Morningstar, Cornell University, Cultural studies, David L. Sokol, Deconstruction, Dr. Fox effect, Duke University, Ethics, Fashionable Nonsense, Fictitious entry, Fredric Jameson, George Orwell, Hermeneutics, Higher Superstition, Hoax, Ideology, Intellectual, Jacques Derrida, Jean Bricmont, Le Monde, Libération, Liberal arts education, Liberal feminism, Lingua Franca (magazine), List of scholarly publishing stings, Literary criticism, Mathematics, New Age, New Politics (magazine), New York University, Norman Levitt, Northeastern University, Not even wrong, NPR, Objectivity (science), Paul R. Gross, Peer review, Physics, Physics envy, ..., Politics and the English Language, Postmodern philosophy, Postmodernism, Postmodernism Generator, Progressivism, Pseudoscience, Quantum gravity, Robert Siegel, Rupert Sheldrake, Science wars, Science, Technology, & Human Values, Scientific realism, SCIgen, Social constructionism, Social Text, Socialism, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Strong programme, Tempest in a teapot, The Times Literary Supplement, University College London, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Expand index (22 more) »
Abortion-rights movements
Abortion-rights movements, also referred to as pro-choice movements, advocate for legal access to induced abortion services.
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Alan Sokal
Alan David Sokal (born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University.
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All Things Considered
All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).
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Andrew Ross (sociologist)
Andrew Ross (born 1956) is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (NYU), and a social activist and analyst.
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Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.
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Anti-intellectualism
Anti-intellectualism is hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism commonly expressed as deprecation of education and philosophy, and the dismissal of art, literature, and science as impractical and even contemptible human pursuits.
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Argument from authority
An argument from authority, also called an appeal to authority, or argumentum ad verecundiam is a form of defeasible argument in which a claimed authority's support is used as evidence for an argument's conclusion.
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Axiom of choice
In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that the Cartesian product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty.
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Bogdanov affair
The Bogdanov affair is an academic dispute regarding the legitimacy of a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twins '''Igor''' and '''Grichka Bogdanov''' (alternately spelt Bogdanoff).
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Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour (born 22 June 1947) is a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.
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Caricature
A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or through other artistic drawings.
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Chip Morningstar
Chip Morningstar is an author, developer, programmer and designer of software systems, mainly for online entertainment and communication.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.
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Cultural studies
Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.
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David L. Sokol
David L. Sokol (born 1956) is an American business executive.
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Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a critique of the relationship between text and meaning originated by the philosopher Jacques Derrida.
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Dr. Fox effect
The Dr.
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Duke University
Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.
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Ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
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Fashionable Nonsense
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Impostures Intellectuelles), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.
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Fictitious entry
Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and directories.
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Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.
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Higher Superstition
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science is a 1994 book by biologist Paul R. Gross and mathematician Norman Levitt.
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Hoax
A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.
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Ideology
An Ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.
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Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about society and proposes solutions for its normative problems.
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida;. See also. July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French Algerian-born philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology.
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Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont (born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science.
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Le Monde
Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edition.
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Libération
Libération (popularly known as Libé), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.
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Liberal arts education
Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") can claim to be the oldest programme of higher education in Western history.
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Liberal feminism
Liberal feminism is an individualistic form of feminist theory, which focuses on women's ability to maintain their equality through their own actions and choices.
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Lingua Franca (magazine)
Lingua Franca was an American magazine about intellectual and literary life in academia.
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List of scholarly publishing stings
This is a list of scholarly publishing "sting operations" such as the Sokal affair.
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Literary criticism
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
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Mathematics
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.
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New Age
New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.
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New Politics (magazine)
New Politics is an independent socialist journal founded in 1961 and still published in the United States today.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.
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Norman Levitt
Norman Jay Levitt (August 27, 1943 – October 24, 2009) was a mathematician at Rutgers University.
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Northeastern University
Northeastern University (NU, formerly NEU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898.
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Not even wrong
The phrase "not even wrong" describes an argument or explanation that purports to be scientific but is based on invalid reasoning or speculative premises that can neither be proven correct nor falsified.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Objectivity (science)
Objectivity in science is a value that informs how science is practiced and how scientific truths are discovered.
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Paul R. Gross
Paul R. Gross is a biologist and author, perhaps best known to the general public for Higher Superstition (1994), written with Norman Levitt.
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Peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
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Physics
Physics (from knowledge of nature, from φύσις phýsis "nature") is the natural science that studies matterAt the start of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman offers the atomic hypothesis as the single most prolific scientific concept: "If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed one sentence what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is that all things are made up of atoms – little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another..." and its motion and behavior through space and time and that studies the related entities of energy and force."Physical science is that department of knowledge which relates to the order of nature, or, in other words, to the regular succession of events." Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves."Physics is one of the most fundamental of the sciences. Scientists of all disciplines use the ideas of physics, including chemists who study the structure of molecules, paleontologists who try to reconstruct how dinosaurs walked, and climatologists who study how human activities affect the atmosphere and oceans. Physics is also the foundation of all engineering and technology. No engineer could design a flat-screen TV, an interplanetary spacecraft, or even a better mousetrap without first understanding the basic laws of physics. (...) You will come to see physics as a towering achievement of the human intellect in its quest to understand our world and ourselves."Physics is an experimental science. Physicists observe the phenomena of nature and try to find patterns that relate these phenomena.""Physics is the study of your world and the world and universe around you." Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines and, through its inclusion of astronomy, perhaps the oldest. Over the last two millennia, physics, chemistry, biology, and certain branches of mathematics were a part of natural philosophy, but during the scientific revolution in the 17th century, these natural sciences emerged as unique research endeavors in their own right. Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined. New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms studied by other sciences and suggest new avenues of research in academic disciplines such as mathematics and philosophy. Advances in physics often enable advances in new technologies. For example, advances in the understanding of electromagnetism and nuclear physics led directly to the development of new products that have dramatically transformed modern-day society, such as television, computers, domestic appliances, and nuclear weapons; advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization; and advances in mechanics inspired the development of calculus.
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Physics envy
The term physics envy is a phrase used to criticize modern writing and research of academics working in areas such as "softer sciences", liberal arts, business studies and humanities.
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Politics and the English Language
"Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language.
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Postmodern philosophy
Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Enlightenment.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.
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Postmodernism Generator
The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces imitations of postmodernist writing.
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Progressivism
Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.
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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the scientific method.
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Quantum gravity
Quantum gravity (QG) is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics, and where quantum effects cannot be ignored, such as near compact astrophysical objects where the effects of gravity are strong.
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Robert Siegel
Robert Charles Siegel (born June 26, 1947) is an American radio journalist.
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Rupert Sheldrake
Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, who developed the concept of "morphic resonance".
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Science wars
The science wars were a series of intellectual exchanges, between scientific realists and postmodernist critics, about the nature of scientific theory and intellectual inquiry.
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Science, Technology, & Human Values
Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on the relationship of science and technology with society.
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Scientific realism
Scientific realism is the view that the universe described by science is real regardless of how it may be interpreted.
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SCIgen
SCIgen is a computer program that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers.
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Social constructionism
Social constructionism or the social construction of reality (also social concept) is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory that examines the development of jointly constructed understandings of the world that form the basis for shared assumptions about reality.
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Social Text
Social Text is an academic journal published by Duke University Press.
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Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.
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Sociology of scientific knowledge
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing with "the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity." The sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) is complementary to the sociology of scientific knowledge.
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Strong programme
The strong programme or strong sociology is a variety of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) particularly associated with David Bloor, Barry Barnes, Harry Collins, Donald A. MacKenzie, and John Henry.
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Tempest in a teapot
Tempest in a teapot (American English), or storm in a teacup (British English), is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.
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The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.
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University College London
University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.
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Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
In mathematics, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, named after mathematicians Ernst Zermelo and Abraham Fraenkel, is an axiomatic system that was proposed in the early twentieth century in order to formulate a theory of sets free of paradoxes such as Russell's paradox.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
