Pseudoscience

• Verfasst von: Gordin, Michael D. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Pseudoscience
• Titelzusatz: a very short introduction
• Werktitel: On the fringe
• Verf.angabe: Michael D. Gordin
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xx, 124 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 18 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Very short Introductions
• Fussnoten: Als Hardcover 2021 erschienen unter dem Titel: On the fringe: where science meets pseudoscience ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-106) and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-094442-1
• Schlagwörter: (s)Pseudowissenschaft
• Dokumenttyp: Einführung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Gordin, Michael D: Pseudoscience. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
• RVK-Notation: AK 20000
• K10plus-PPN: 1847986269

Abstract

The book "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience. Many people would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under the umbrella of pseudoscience - astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind - but a precise definition has proven impossible. This book explores a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, focusing on some of the central debates about what science is and is not, and how such controversies have shifted over the centuries, and offers a historical and philosophical approach to fringe science and scientific controversies in the past and the present"--