Re: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences
Even if intentionally faked, for sure the article add to theology more than what Margaret Mead added to Anthropology for years, or what global warmists are adding to Meteorology ;) 2012/9/30 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 9/30/2012 4:31 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hehe. Fine. However, the concrete abstract seems very promising for a theologian. It is clear that Boudry know the concepts that he manage. His abstract is a piece of cake, it is a I solved the Teologian problem of our time! . It is not pure gibberish. Remenber that the Sokal affair was around a complete article, not an abstract. Boudry also wrote a complete aritcle, which was published. You can follow the link and read it, if you'r so inclined. Brent I know that a great number of hoax papers are submitted and accepted in scientific press.Many of them are not for joking purposes, but for people that want relevance, fame and money. This hasn´t to undermine hard sciences. ( Not in the case of modern cultural and gender studies that are pure indoctrination ) In my particular case, I worked in European I+D projects where subsidies depended on the imagination, the length of the documents and the appropriate use of buzzwords. Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.**comeverything-list@googlegroups.com . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscribe@ **googlegroups.com everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** group/everything-list?hl=enhttp://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en . -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
Re: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences
Hehe. Fine. However, the concrete abstract seems very promising for a theologian. It is clear that Boudry know the concepts that he manage. His abstract is a piece of cake, it is a I solved the Teologian problem of our time! . It is not pure gibberish. Remenber that the Sokal affair was around a complete article, not an abstract. I know that a great number of hoax papers are submitted and accepted in scientific press.Many of them are not for joking purposes, but for people that want relevance, fame and money. This hasn´t to undermine hard sciences. ( Not in the case of modern cultural and gender studies that are pure indoctrination ) In my particular case, I worked in European I+D projects where subsidies depended on the imagination, the length of the documents and the appropriate use of buzzwords. Alberto. 2012/9/29 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: John Clark at least will appreciate this. :-) Original Message To: Skeptic skep...@lists.johnshopkins.edu http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/a-sokal-style-hoax-by-an-anti-religious-philosopher-2/ - But today I’m presenting something else: a real Sokal-style hoax that Boudry has perpetrated. He informed me yesterday that he had submitted a fake, post-modernish and Sophisticated-Theological™ abstract to two theology conferences: By the way, I thought you might find this funny. I wrote a spoof abstract full of theological gibberish (Sokal-style) and submitted it to two theology conferences, both of which accepted it right away. It got into the proceedings of the Reformational Philosophy conference. See Robert A. Maundy (an anagram of my name) on p. 22 of the program proceedings. - The comments are worth reading too. === And there is a most excellent review/refutation of Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies by Boudry here (I notice he credits Yonatan Fishman among others): http://ihpst.net/newsletters/sept-oct2012.pdf Here's a snippet: In much of what passes as sophisticated theology these days, the term ‘God’ does no explanatory work at all, but functions as an intellectual vanishing point, a bundle of all explanatory loose ends. God is simply equated with the uncaused cause, the ground of all being, as that-which-does-notrequire- further-explanation. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
Re: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences
I don´t know if you know the postmodernist generator. It´s a program that generate postmodernist papers, Sokal style: Each time it is executed, a now paper is generated: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ 2012/9/30 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: Hehe. Fine. However, the concrete abstract seems very promising for a theologian. It is clear that Boudry know the concepts that he manage. His abstract is a piece of cake, it is a I solved the Teologian problem of our time! . It is not pure gibberish. Remenber that the Sokal affair was around a complete article, not an abstract. I know that a great number of hoax papers are submitted and accepted in scientific press.Many of them are not for joking purposes, but for people that want relevance, fame and money. This hasn´t to undermine hard sciences. ( Not in the case of modern cultural and gender studies that are pure indoctrination ) In my particular case, I worked in European I+D projects where subsidies depended on the imagination, the length of the documents and the appropriate use of buzzwords. Alberto. 2012/9/29 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: John Clark at least will appreciate this. :-) Original Message To: Skeptic skep...@lists.johnshopkins.edu http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/a-sokal-style-hoax-by-an-anti-religious-philosopher-2/ - But today I’m presenting something else: a real Sokal-style hoax that Boudry has perpetrated. He informed me yesterday that he had submitted a fake, post-modernish and Sophisticated-Theological™ abstract to two theology conferences: By the way, I thought you might find this funny. I wrote a spoof abstract full of theological gibberish (Sokal-style) and submitted it to two theology conferences, both of which accepted it right away. It got into the proceedings of the Reformational Philosophy conference. See Robert A. Maundy (an anagram of my name) on p. 22 of the program proceedings. - The comments are worth reading too. === And there is a most excellent review/refutation of Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies by Boudry here (I notice he credits Yonatan Fishman among others): http://ihpst.net/newsletters/sept-oct2012.pdf Here's a snippet: In much of what passes as sophisticated theology these days, the term ‘God’ does no explanatory work at all, but functions as an intellectual vanishing point, a bundle of all explanatory loose ends. God is simply equated with the uncaused cause, the ground of all being, as that-which-does-notrequire- further-explanation. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- Alberto. -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
Re: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences
On 9/30/2012 4:31 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hehe. Fine. However, the concrete abstract seems very promising for a theologian. It is clear that Boudry know the concepts that he manage. His abstract is a piece of cake, it is a I solved the Teologian problem of our time! . It is not pure gibberish. Remenber that the Sokal affair was around a complete article, not an abstract. Boudry also wrote a complete aritcle, which was published. You can follow the link and read it, if you'r so inclined. Brent I know that a great number of hoax papers are submitted and accepted in scientific press.Many of them are not for joking purposes, but for people that want relevance, fame and money. This hasn´t to undermine hard sciences. ( Not in the case of modern cultural and gender studies that are pure indoctrination ) In my particular case, I worked in European I+D projects where subsidies depended on the imagination, the length of the documents and the appropriate use of buzzwords. Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
Fwd: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences
John Clark at least will appreciate this. :-) Original Message To: Skeptic skep...@lists.johnshopkins.edu mailto:skep...@lists.johnshopkins.edu http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/a-sokal-style-hoax-by-an-anti-religious-philosopher-2/ - But today I’m presenting something else: a real Sokal-style hoax that Boudry has perpetrated. He informed me yesterday that he had submitted a fake, post-modernish and Sophisticated-Theological™ abstract to two theology conferences: By the way, I thought you might find this funny. I wrote a spoof abstract full of theological gibberish (Sokal-style) and submitted it to two theology conferences, both of which accepted it right away. It got into the proceedings of the Reformational Philosophy conference. See Robert A. Maundy (an anagram of my name) on p. 22 of the program proceedings. - The comments are worth reading too. === And there is a most excellent review/refutation of Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies by Boudry here (I notice he credits Yonatan Fishman among others): http://ihpst.net/newsletters/sept-oct2012.pdf Here's a snippet: In much of what passes as sophisticated theology these days, the term ‘God’ does no explanatory work at all, but functions as an intellectual vanishing point, a bundle of all explanatory loose ends. God is simply equated with the uncaused cause, the ground of all being, as that-which-does-notrequire- further-explanation. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
