1999
DOI: 10.1063/1.882506
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

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“…French Continental philosophy and especially post-structuralism were targeted for particular hostility, under the general charge of 'political correctness' (Bérubé & Nelson, 1995). Militant antipoststructuralist scientists, like Socal and Bricmont (1998), accused the Humanities of scientific inadequacy and downright ignorance, with disastrous effects for the morale of the field. They have encouraged the by-now-familiar reaction of dismissal of the Humanities through the intellectually lazy charge of moral and cognitive relativism.…”
Section: Institutional Patterns Of Dissonancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…French Continental philosophy and especially post-structuralism were targeted for particular hostility, under the general charge of 'political correctness' (Bérubé & Nelson, 1995). Militant antipoststructuralist scientists, like Socal and Bricmont (1998), accused the Humanities of scientific inadequacy and downright ignorance, with disastrous effects for the morale of the field. They have encouraged the by-now-familiar reaction of dismissal of the Humanities through the intellectually lazy charge of moral and cognitive relativism.…”
Section: Institutional Patterns Of Dissonancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Però per descomptat, si uns científics tenen la teoria que l'origen d'una determinada malaltia és un virus i que una vacuna pot protegir-nos-en, si observen que administrar-la prevé de manera efectiva la malaltia, diran que la seua teoria s'ha confirmat. Qualsevol epistemologia que li lleve legitimitat a aquesta conclusió tindrà dificultats serioses, i Popper ha rebutjat moltes vegades la idea que les teories es poden confirmar mitjançant observacions (Sokal i Bricmont, 1999).…”
Section: Jean Bricmontunclassified
“…Las llamadas guerras de la ciencia de la década de 1990, exacerbadas por la broma de Sokal y la consiguiente polémica, llevaron aún más allá la cuestión (Sokal, 2000;Sokal et al, 1998).…”
Section: La Guerra Entre Ciencia Y Humanidadesunclassified