Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction
View through CrossRef
Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience. Many people would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under the umbrella of pseudoscience — astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind — but a precise definition has proven impossible. This book explores a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, focusing on some of the central debates about what science is and is not, and how such controversies have shifted over the centuries, and offers a historical and philosophical approach to fringe science and scientific controversies in the past and the present
Title: Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction
Description:
Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience.
Many people would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under the umbrella of pseudoscience — astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind — but a precise definition has proven impossible.
This book explores a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, focusing on some of the central debates about what science is and is not, and how such controversies have shifted over the centuries, and offers a historical and philosophical approach to fringe science and scientific controversies in the past and the present.
Related Results
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience
In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, ...
Preservice Science Teachers' Discrimination Level of Science and Pseudoscience
Preservice Science Teachers' Discrimination Level of Science and Pseudoscience
This quantitative study aimed to examine Turkish pre-service science teachers’ beliefs regarding the demarcating between science and pseudoscience. Participants completed the Scien...
Pseudoscience and the Pursuit of Truth
Pseudoscience and the Pursuit of Truth
This article takes a historical and cultural approach to pseudoscience, arguing that it can never be definitively demarcated from real science. It suggests that the persistence of ...
Integrated Information Theory: Pseudoscience or appropriately anomalous science?
Integrated Information Theory: Pseudoscience or appropriately anomalous science?
The integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) has recently been branded pseudoscience. Its methodology is certainly anomalous, but does that make it pseudoscience or an ...
The Presumption of Pseudoscience. In Defense of Electrochemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, and Cold Fusion, of Course!
The Presumption of Pseudoscience. In Defense of Electrochemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, and Cold Fusion, of Course!
In defence of electrochemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, and cold fusion. With the help of science eliminated prejudices and errors, and achieved: protection produced tru...
Using Case Studies to Combat a Pseudoscience Culture
Using Case Studies to Combat a Pseudoscience Culture
To combat pseudoscience, students must first understand that science is not just a collection of facts but it is a way of discovering the nature of the physical world. The way that...
Understanding Pseudoscience Vulnerability through Epistemological Development, Critical Thinking, and Science Literacy
Understanding Pseudoscience Vulnerability through Epistemological Development, Critical Thinking, and Science Literacy
The American public is vulnerable to pseudoscience due to 1) a general lack of science literacy (e.g., not knowing how to distinguish science from pseudoscience 2) pedagogy that em...
Evidence-Based Practice as a Driver of Pseudoscience in Prevention Research
Evidence-Based Practice as a Driver of Pseudoscience in Prevention Research
Many of the subject matters discussed under the topic of pseudoscience can be readily distinguished from science proper, and there are few individuals with any serious scientific t...