Philosophy of pseudoscience : reconsidering the demarcation problem / edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry.

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English
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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viii, 469 pages ; 24 cm

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    Collection of essays arguing for the importance of reflecting on the separation between pseudoscience and sound science, known to philosophers as "the demarcation problem"--Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780226051796 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    • 022605179X ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    • 9780226051963 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    • 022605196X ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    • 022605182X ((e-book))
    • 9780226051826 ((e-book))
    LCCN
    2013000805
    OCLC
    824088394
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