Thanks for posting the Sokal - _Social Text_ article, Michael; I'd looked for it on the NY _Times_ page on the Web, but couldn't get it. If anyone's interested, there have been extended discussions of this issue on the PEIRCE-L and XMCA lists. I know Peirce-L is archived, and I think XMCA is. Extensive quotes from responses by Ross, Stanley Fish (who is a director of the press that produces _Social Text_), Sokal, and others have been posted. As usual, what looks pretty clear in the _Times_ gets more and more complicated the more you hear . . . -- Russ __|~_ Russell A. Hunt __|~_)_ __)_|~_ Department of English St. Thomas University )_ __)_|_)__ __) PHONE: (506) 363-3891 Fredericton, New Brunswick | )____) | FAX: (506) 450-9615 E3B 5G3 CANADA ___|____|____|____/ [log in to unmask] \ / ~~~~~~~~ http://www.StThomasU.ca/hunt/hunt.htm ~~~~~~~~