7. Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Falsely So-Called

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Why the Demarcation Problem Matters 1
4. PART I. What’s the Problem with the Demarcation Problem?
5. 1. The Demarcation Problem. A (Belated) Response to Laudan 9
6. 2. Science and Pseudoscience. How to Demarcate after the (Alleged) Demise of the Demarcation Problem 29
7. 3. Toward a Demarcation of Science from Pseudoscience 45
8. 4. Defining Pseudoscience and Science 61
9. 5. Loki’s Wager and Laudan’s Error. On Genuine and Territorial Demarcation 79
10. PART II. History and Sociology of Pseudoscience
11. 6. The Problem of Demarcation. History and Future 101
12. 7. Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Falsely So-Called 121
13. 8. Paranormalism and Pseudoscience as Deviance 145
14. 9. Belief Buddies versus Critical Communities. The Social Organization of Pseudoscience 165
15. PART III. The Borderlands between Science and Pseudoscience
16. 10. Science and the Messy, Uncontrollable World of Nature 183
17. 11. Science and Pseudoscience. The Difference in Practice and the Difference It Makes 203
18. 12. Evolution. From Pseudoscience to Popular Science, from Popular Science to Professional Science 225
19. PART IV. Science and the Supernatural
20. 13. Is a Science of the Supernatural Possible? 247
21. 14. Navigating the Landscape between Science and Religious Pseudoscience. Can Hume Help? 263
22. PART V. True Believers and Their Tactics
23. 15. Argumentation and Pseudoscience The Case for an Ethics of Argumentation 287
24. 16. Why Alternative Medicine Can Be Scientifically Evaluated Countering the Evasions of Pseudoscience. Countering the Evasions of Pseudoscience 305
25. 17. Pseudoscience. The Case of Freud’s Sexual Etiology of the Neuroses 321
26. 18. The Holocaust Denier’s Playbook and the Tobacco Smokescreen. Common Threads in the Thinking and Tactics of Denialists and Pseudoscientists 341
27. PART VI. The Cognitive Roots of Pseudoscience
28. 19. Evolved to Be Irrational?. Evolutionary and Cognitive Foundations of Pseudosciences 361
29. 20. Werewolves in Scientists’ Clothing. Understanding Pseudoscientific Cognition 381
30. 21. The Salem Region. Two Mindsets about Science 397
31. 22. Pseudoscience and Idiosyncratic Theories of Rational Belief 417
32. 23. Agentive Thinking and Illusions of Understanding 439
33. Contributor 459
34. Index 461