1996 In Philosophy

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Short description: Overview of the events of 1996 in philosophy

1996 in philosophy

Events

May - Sokal affair: American mathematical physicist Alan Sokal hoaxes the editors into publishing a deliberately nonsensical paper, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", in a "science wars" issue of the journal Social Text (Duke University Press)^[1] as a critique of the intellectual rigor of postmodernism in academic cultural studies.^[2]
Willard Van Orman Quine is awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his "outstanding contributions to the progress of philosophy in the 20th century by proposing numerous theories based on keen insights in logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophy of language."^[3]

↑ Sokal, Alan D. (1996). "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". Social Text 46/47: 217–252. doi:10.2307/466856.
↑ Sokal, Alan D. (May 1996). "A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies". Lingua Franca. http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
↑ "Willard Van Orman Quine". Inamori Foundation. http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/laureates/k12_c_willard/ctn_e.html. Retrieved 2012-12-15.

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