Massimo Pigliucci, Maarten Boudry, Maarten Boudry

Broschiertes Buch

Philosophy of Pseudoscience

Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

Herausgeber: Boudry, Maarten; Pigliucci, Massimo

Beschreibung

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? This title seeks to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem."

Autor

Massimo Pigliucci is professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. He has written many books, including Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk and, most recently, Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life. Maarten Boudry is a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research at Ghent University and wrote a dissertation on pseudoscience, Here Be Dragons: Exploring the Hinterland of Science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780226051963
• ISBN-10: 022605196X
• Artikelnr.: 39171752