dc.contributor.author | Letrud, Kåre | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-17T08:34:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-17T08:34:41Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-05-24T15:42:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 2019 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0269-8595 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2719955 | |
dc.description | © 2019 Open Society Foundation .
This article will not be available due to copyright restrictions. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In this article, I seek to improve upon a definition of pseudoscience put forward by Sven Ove Hansson. I argue that not only does its use of ‘pseudoscientific statement’ as definiendum inadequately address the theoretical issue of demarcation, it also makes the definition inapt for practical demarcation. Moreover, I argue that Hanson’s definition subsumes statements and associated practices that are forms of bad science, resulting in an unfavourably wide concept. I try to save the definition from the brunt of this critique by arguing that some pseudoscientific statements are particularly significant when demarcating a discipline as a pseudoscience. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.haspart | International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 2019 | en_US |
dc.subject | Pseudoscience | en_US |
dc.subject | Demarcation | en_US |
dc.subject | Pseudoscientific statements | en_US |
dc.subject | Definition of pseudoscience | en_US |
dc.title | The Gordian Knot of Demarcation: Tying Up Some Loose Ends | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | International Studies in the Philosophy of Science | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02698595.2019.1618031 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1700177 | |
cristin.unitcode | 209,6,6,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Faggruppe for filosofi | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |