Епистемичният релативизъм от перспективата на един белетрист и на един физик
Epistemic Relativism from the Perspective of a Fiction Writer аnd a Physicist

Summary/Abstract: The article examines two parodies of scientific works – written at the beginning and at the end of the last century, respectively. The first parody, entitled Notes on a Treatise on Cocotology, is an addendum to Miguel de Unamuno’s novel “Love and Pedagogy” and directed against the dogmatism, scholasticism, and narrow-mindedness of positivism. The second parodic work, the article “Crossing Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics”, authored by the famous physicist and mathematician Alan Sokal, is directed against the so-called epistemic relativism, according to which modern science is nothing more than a “myth,” “narrative,” or “social construction. Despite the differences in the parodic style – fictional in Unamuno and following the apparent rigor of the mathematical sciences in Sokal – the parodies of the two authors aim to assert the freedom of the researchers from the dominant ideologies and power relations of the culture that created him.

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