Social Text issue

eaeg at unity.ncsu.edu eaeg at unity.ncsu.edu
Thu May 23 14:52:00 CDT 1996


Stanley Fish (who edits Duke Journals where Social Text is published) has 
published a neat, familiar debunking of the Sokal manoeuvre.  If you want 
I can post it here, or send it to you individually.  Basically, he says 
that sociologists of science have always debated the relative merits of 
scientific theory, that the issue is not whether there is a "real" world 
out there but how we understand it, and that it is Sokal who violates the 
trust of an academic community which is necessary to inquiry in his own 
field.  

Eyal





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