TY - JOUR
AU1 - Dawes, Gregory
AB - Many philosophers have come to believe there is no single criterion by which one can distinguish between a science and a pseudoscience. But it need not follow that no distinction can be made: a multifactorial account of what constitutes a pseudoscience remains possible. On this view, knowledge-seeking activities fall on a spectrum, with the clearly scientific at one end and the clearly non-scientific at the other. When proponents claim a clearly non-scientific activity to be scientific, it can be described as a pseudoscience. One feature of a scientific theory is that it forms part of a research tradition being actively pursued by a scientific community. If a theory lacks this form of epistemic warrant, this is a pro tanto reason to regard it as pseudoscientific.
TI - Identifying Pseudoscience: A Social Process Criterion
JF - Journal for General Philosophy of Science
DO - 10.1007/s10838-017-9388-6
DA - 2018-01-06
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/identifying-pseudoscience-a-social-process-criterion-bYLkZrlg7c
SP - 283
EP - 298
VL - 49
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -