Philosophy of pseudoscience : reconsidering the demarcation problem /
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Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013] ©2013 |
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Description: | 1 online resource (469 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11200286 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: why the demarcation problem matters / Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry
- What's the problem with the demarcation problem? The demarcation problem: a (belated) response to Laudan / Massimo Pigliucci
- Science and pseudoscience: how to demarcate after the (alleged) demise of the demarcation problem? / Martin Mahner
- Toward a demarcation of science from pseudoscience / James Ladyman
- Defining pseudoscience and science / Sven Ove Hansson
- Loki's wager and Laudan's error: on genuine and territorial demarcation / Maarten Boudry
- History and sociology of pseudoscience. The problem of demarcation: history and future / Thomas Nickles
- Science, pseudoscience, and science falsely so-called / Daniel P. Thurs and Ronald L. Numbers
- Paranormalism and pseudoscience as deviance / Erich Goode
- Belief buddies versus critical communities: the social organization of pseudoscience / Noretta Koertge
- The borderlands between science and pseudoscience. Science and the messy, uncontrollable world of nature / Carol E. Cleland and Sheralee Brindell
- Science and pseudoscience: the difference in practice and the difference it makes / Michael Shermer
- Evolution: from pseudoscience to popular science, from popular science to professional science / Michael Ruse
- Science and the supernatural. Is a science of the supernatural possible? / Evan Fales
- Navigating the landscape between science and religious pseudoscience: can Hume help? / Barbara Forrest
- True believers and their tactics. Argumentation and pseudoscience: the case for an ethics of argumentation / Jean Paul van Bendegem
- Why alternative medicine can be scientifically evaluated: countering the evasions of pseudoscience / Jesper Jerkert
- Pseudoscience: the case of Freud's sexual etiology of the neuroses / Frank Cioffi
- The Holocaust denier's playbook and the tobacco smokescreen: common threads in the thinking and tactics of denialists and pseudoscientists / Donald Prothero
- The cognitive roots of pseudoscience. Evolved to be irrational?: evolutionary and cognitive foundations of pseudosciences / Stefaan Blancke and Johan de Smedt
- Werewolves in scientists' clothing: understanding pseudoscientific cognition / Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
- The Salem region: two mindsets about science / John S. Wilkins
- Pseudoscience and idiosyncratic theories of rational belief / Nicholas Shackel
- Agentive thinking and illusions of understanding / Filip Buekens.