Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosopher... File

Critiqued for their interpretations of mathematical and physical concepts. 3. Context: The Sokal Hoax

The authors specifically state they are not criticizing all philosophy, but rather the specific "abuse" of scientific terminology. Intellectual Impostures: postmodern philosopher...

Critiqued for misuse of mathematical concepts like topology. Intellectual Impostures: postmodern philosopher...

Intellectual Impostures (published as Fashionable Nonsense in the US) is a 1998 book by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont that critiques the use of scientific concepts and terminology by several prominent French postmodernist philosophers. 1. Core Purpose and Argument Intellectual Impostures: postmodern philosopher...

Critiqued for arguments about fluid mechanics and sexual difference.

Critiqued for applying poetic language to mathematical theory.