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What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart
from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer
this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation
problem." This issue has a long history in philosophy, stretching
as far back as the early twentieth century and the work of Karl
Popper. But by the late 1980s, scholars in the field began to treat
the demarcation problem as impossible to solve and futile to
ponder. However, the essays that Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten
Boudry have assembled in this volume make a rousing case for the
unequivocal importance of reflecting on the separation between
pseudoscience and sound science. Moreover, the demarcation problem
is not a purely theoretical dilemma of mere academic interest: it
affects parents' decisions to vaccinate children and governments'
willingness to adopt policies that prevent climate change.
Pseudoscience often mimics science, using the superficial language
and trappings of actual scientific research to seem more
respectable. Even a well-informed public can be taken in by such
questionable theories dressed up as science. Pseudoscientific
beliefs compete with sound science on the health pages of
newspapers for media coverage and in laboratories for research
funding. Now more than ever the ability to separate genuine
scientific findings from spurious ones is vital, and Philosophy of
Pseudoscience provides ground for philosophers, sociologists,
historians, and laypeople to make decisions about what science is
or isn't.
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