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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Scientism as pseudoscience
    sub title: on ideology critique and the demarcation problem
  name:
    name part: Skempton, Simon.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (160 pages).
  abstract: This book provides a historical overview of philosophical debates about the distinction between science and pseudo-science, and a demonstration of how the Western Marxist tradition's notion of the critique of ideology can elucidate this distinction.The way in which pseudo-science is often ideologically motivated is discussed in depth.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction: On Scientism -- Chapter 2. Ideology and Science -- Chapter 3. Popperian Demarcation -- Chapter 4. Value-Freedom and the "Positivism Dispute" -- Chapter 5. Lakatosian Demarcation -- Chapter 6. The Denial of Demarcation -- Chapter 7. Examples of Ideological Pseudoscience -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Index.
  note: Simon Skempton.
  subject:
    topic: Scientism
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Pseudoscience
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Political Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Théorie de la connaissance
  subject:
    topic: Scientisme
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: epistemology
  classification: Q175 .S54 2026
  classification: 501
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Scientism As Pseudoscience
    name:
      name part: Skempton, Simon
    origin info:
      publisher: Cham : Springer,c2026
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1553712928
  identifier: 9783032150196 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3032150191
  identifier: 3032150183
  identifier: 9783032150189
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: QGK
    record creation date: 260202
    record change date: 20260426011015.5
    record identifier: in00005779676
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng