[lbo-talk] Sokal & Bricmont or Lenin?

[Charles Brown]

Gee, Justin, I believe poor Mikhail Simkin got his education in an
epistemological Gulag in the Soviet Union and u got yours in the security of
the homeland of the free. He's got a university job and u lost yours. What
does that tell us ?

Charles

And what kind of Gulag is that? One where the secret
police pick you up for doubting the existence of the
external world, take you into a cellar where you face
hungry graduate student TAs who studied with Robert
Brandom, Richard Boyd (actually a commie!), William
Alston, and other realists, and are subjected to
ruthless dissection of your premises?

This is like something out of Monty Python, Mikhail.
"Ever was was afraid of Doug. He used . . . . sarcasm.
Synecdoche. Irony."

jks

"Michael Simkin" writes replying to
> --- Gregory Geboski , who wrote:
> > What strikes me more is that this Simkin fellow
> > apparently assumes (and assumes that his readers
> > will assume) that finding parallels with Lenin's
> > thought is prima facie evidence for dismissing Sokal
> > and Bricemont.
>
> Not really a prima face evidence - just a warning that they can lead
> us to Epistemological GULAG.