Birth Name:

Alan Sokal

Male

Birth Date:

Mon, Jan 24, 1955

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Age:

69

Zodiac Sign:

Aquarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

3°

Aqu

57'

About Alan Sokal

Alan David Sokal (/ˈsoʊkəl/; born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text. He also works to counter faulty scientific reasoning, as seen with his involvement in criticising the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Publications at the Academic Genealogy Wiki

• University College London

• "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"

• Pseudoscience and Postmodernism: Antagonists or Fellow-Travelers? in: Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public, ed. Fagan (2004).

• Alan Sokal’s collection of articles related to the Social Text Affair

• An interview with Alan Sokal on The Marketplace of Ideas

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Alan Sokal: Sun 3 Aquarius, Moon 11 Aquarius, Mercury 21 Aquarius, Venus 17 Sagittarius, Mars 6 Aries, Jupiter 23 Cancer, Saturn 20 Scorpio, Uranus 25 Cancer, Neptune 28 Libra, Pluto 26 Leo, Mercury Quincunx Jupiter, Mercury Opposition Pluto, Mercury Square Saturn, Sun Sextile Mars, Sun Semi Square Venus, Mercury Semi Square Mars, Mars Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Jupiter Conjunct Uranus, Jupiter Square Neptune, Uranus Square Neptune, Uranus Semi Sextile Pluto, Neptune Sextile Pluto

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