1996 in philosophy

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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]

gollark: Oh, I should have mentioned, 2D square grids (yes, kind of boring, but hexagons are hard).

gollark: Can people recommend some interesting rules to implement in a simple (slow) browser-based CA thingy?

gollark: Hi.

gollark: Did you know? For all epsilon = 0, there exists a delta such that epsilon = delta = 0.

gollark: Have you heard of interval arithmetic? You do things with the regions you know a value to lie in.

Sokal, Alan D. (1996). "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". Social Text. 46/47: 217–252. doi:10.2307/466856. JSTOR 466856.
Sokal, Alan D. (May 1996). "A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies". Lingua Franca. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
"Willard Van Orman Quine". Inamori Foundation. Archived from the original on 2013-07-20. Retrieved 2012-12-15.

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