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Heisenbergs philosophy of quantum mechanics, epub, isbn 9781454190110 new york. In 1996, alan sokal, a professor of physics at new york university, wrote a paper for the culturalstudies journal social text, entitled transgressing the boundaries. Sokal and bricmont focus on mathematics and physics, on mathematical logic, complex numbers, topology, set theory, fluid mechanics, relativity, and other such fields. Sep 19, 1998 the impressive sounding deep thoughts of some of the philosophers have turned out to have no substance as sokal and bricmonts recent intellectual impostures shows, and i wondered whether parts of the introductory chapters were evidence of their influence. Buy intellectual impostures by alan sokal, jean bricmont isbn. By alan sokal and jean bricmont mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. Books if bad arguments are as good as good ones, why not let m stand for tinkerbell and e stand for jouissance. The following collection of photographs of breasts contains an amazing variety of shapes and sizes, all of which have been made to look as naturallooking as possible. Books were we to discover tomorrow that imposturws ratio of impsotures mass of a particle to its energy were slightly different from what relativity predicted, there would be a revolution in physics, but no need to alter theories of human behavior. The cultural impact of science in the early twentieth.
Making sense of quantum mechanics jean bricmont springer. Passages are cited and ridiculed, and sokal and bricmont then also make some larger and more general points. Except that they had excellent reasons to go ahead and publish it. He characterises himself as a member of the old left, and believes that such professional obfuscation as he has thhe can only.
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