Monday, May 31, 2010

post-modernist nonsense

Here is an essay by Paul Boghossian that contains some of the ideas in his book that I recommended in the last post, and discusses the famous Sokal hoax in detail. Read it through to the end - I promise you will benefit thereby. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/boghossian/papers/bog_tls.html