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  title info:
    title: Philosophy of pseudoscience
    sub title: reconsidering the demarcation problem
  name:
    name part: Pigliucci, Massimo
    name part: 1964-
  name:
    name part: Boudry, Maarten
    name part: 1984-
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 469 pages)
  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 ps…
  table of contents: pt. 1. What's the problem with the demarcation problem? -- pt. 2. History and sociology of pseudoscience -- pt. 3. The borderlands between science and pseudoscience -- pt. 4. Science and the supernatural -- pt. 5. True believers and their tactics -- pt. 6. The cognitive roots of pseudoscience.
  note: edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Pseudoscience
  subject:
    topic: Science
  classification: Q172.5.P77 P48 2013eb
  classification: 001.9
  identifier: 9780226051796 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 9780226051963 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 9780226051826 (e-book)
  identifier: 2013000805
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    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 130108
    record change date: 20250816210812.9
    record identifier: in00003399782