> And for a riposte to some of the pretentious, psuedo-intellectual rubbish
> that some of the philosophy/sociology of science stuff can be, there's a
> fairly new, challenging but very worthwhile book called 'Intellectual
> Imposters' (sorry, can't remember the authors, but it's translated from the
> French).
Full reference is
Sokal A & J Bricmont (1998) Intellectual Impostures. Profile, London
ISBN 1-8619-7074-9 £9.99
I've read it and it is pretty good, especially Ch 4, incidentally Bruno
Latour comes in for quite a pasting in it.
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