Alan Sokal | |
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![]() Sokal in 2011 | |
Born | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | January 24, 1955
Education | |
Known for | Sokal Affair |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, mathematics, philosophy of science |
Institutions | |
Thesis | An Alternate Constructive Approach to the φ4 3 Quantum Field Theory, and a Possible Destructive Approach to φ4 4 (1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Arthur Wightman |
Alan David Sokal (/ˈsoʊkəl/ SOH-kəl; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
Sokal 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 co-authored a paper criticizing the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology.
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