"The world worlds, nothing added." This phrase was written by one of the most important philosophers of the century XX, German Heidegger. Some qualify this bright reflection, others like the philosopher Mario Bunge Argentina, saying that it is a sentence devoid of any meaning, and others simply do not understand.
Statements like this can be read in a profusion of essays, many magazines, and web pages without a majority of society creates understand. There is a part of the intellectual community that endorses and glorifies the thinkers who say such a thing regardless of the confusion they create, because, conceived such digressions as the food of a small intellectual oligarchy. Another part, however, criticizes the baroque use of language, which sponsored a complex grammatical structure and words out of context, actually say nothing. One of the thinkers that has criticized the stance of the postmodern intellectual trend has been the American physicist Alan Sokal.
has been controversial in recent years for its publications, books and ideas, but above all by his joke that has been called "The Sokal scandal." And, tired of the tirades that occurred in the intellectual, and especially in the context of the social sciences, jaded by the incorrect use of mathematical and physical terms diverging from its original meaning, decided to show the inconsistency in which he was living.
pseudoscientific wrote an article filled with misconceptions, mistakes and lies in the wake of the current critical philosophical. He did go through a test are contrasted and an exercise in subtle irony, titled: "Transgressing Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity." The text was published in 1996, without passing under the watchful eye of an expert who would have easily noticed the deception, in the postmodernist journal Social Text produced at Duke University.
No one said anything until the same year, but in the publication Lingua Franca, Sokal claimed that it was all a hoax, a fierce criticism against that intellectual oligarchy in which they were authors such as Lacan, Kristeva , Irigaray, Baudrillard or Deleuze. When the deception was uncovered was generated a controversial figure in the American physicist was subjected to public ridicule and praise for each other. Alan Sokal
continued to defend his thesis and published a book this reason Nonsense in 1997 with the collaboration of Belgian theoretical physicist Jean Bricmont. This essay defends the thesis that the postmodernists have made repeated use and abuse of scientific concepts taking them out of context and without concern for whether they are relevant, or even if they make sense.
An absurdity that arises when, for example, the French philosopher Luce Iirigaray sexuality arises from the theory of relativity as follows: "The equation E = Mc2 is a sexed equation? Maybe. Let us hypothesize that if the extent to which privileges the speed of light relative to other rates which have a vital need .
Sokal and ravings. Inconsistent judgments that could be the witty epitaphs for way of thinking about knowledge, science and its dissemination.
AYG
Victor Gutierrez Sanz
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