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.
