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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Is "Social Text" showing good faith?  (was: Sokal's Hoax)
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In article <4nt4tj$m70@rebecca.albany.edu>
labonnes@csc.albany.edu (S. LaBonne) writes:

> (An admirable, and admirably non-polemic, recent exception is John
> Searle's _The Construction of Social Reality_, a veritable oasis of
> clear thought and one successfully aimed at a general educated
> readership rather than a philosophically trained one.)  Why do they
> leave this task to _scientists_, who are generally ill-equipped to
> perform it??

From what I've heard this book knocks down quite a few strawmen.  Is
that mistaken?

David
"It is interesting to note that the death penalty for individuals is
less controversial than the mere suggestion that a few corporations may
have forfeited their right to exist.  How many people does a company
have to harm before we question if it ought to exist?" Paul Hawken
