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- Book Title
- Pseudoscience: a Very Short Introduction
- Publication Name
- Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction
- Title
- Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 0190944420
- EAN
- 9780190944421
- ISBN
- 9780190944421
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 27/04/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Item Length
- 4.6 in
- Item Width
- 6.9 in
- Genre
- Science
- Topic
- History
- Series
- Very Short Introductions
- Item Weight
- 4.5 Oz
- Book Series
- Very Short Introductions Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella - astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields "pseudo" is a far more complex issue. It has proved impossible to come up with a simple criterion that enables us to differentiate pseudoscience from genuine science. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements - both of which display allegations of "pseudoscience" on all sides - there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation. Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation. This book argues that by understanding doctrines that are often seen as antithetical to science, we can learn a great deal about how science operated in the past and does today. This exploration raises several questions: How does a doctrine become demonized as pseudoscientific? Who has the authority to make these pronouncements? How is the status of science shaped by political or cultural contexts? How does pseudoscience differ from scientific fraud? Michael D. Gordin both answers these questions and guides readers along a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, looking at parapsychology (ESP), Lysenkoism, scientific racism, and alchemy, among others, to better understand the struggle to define what science is and is not, and how the controversies have shifted over the centuries. Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction provides a historical tour through many of these fringe fields in order to provide tools to think deeply about scientific controversies both in the past and in our present.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190944420
ISBN-13
9780190944421
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18057243447
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pseudoscience: a Very Short Introduction
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2023
Book Series
Very Short Introductions Ser.
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
4.6 in
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Item Weight
4.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Q172.5.P77g675 2023
Reviews
The book excels as an introduction to the topic....It has the potential to appeal to a wider audience... and help readers within and beyond academia to conceptualize and engage with pseudoscience in its full complexity-to think about it beyond the abstract, the moralistic, and the anecdotal. That indeed would be an exceptional achievement., "The book excels as an introduction to the topic....It has the potential to appeal to a wider audience... and help readers within and beyond academia to conceptualize and engage with pseudoscience in its full complexity-to think about it beyond the abstract, the moralistic, and the anecdotal. That indeed would be an exceptional achievement." -- Vedran Duan%ci'c, Isis, "The book excels as an introduction to the topic....It has the potential to appeal to a wider audience... and help readers within and beyond academia to conceptualize and engage with pseudoscience in its full complexity-to think about it beyond the abstract, the moralistic, and the anecdotal. That indeed would be an exceptional achievement." -- Vedran Duancic, Isis
Table of Content
Chapter 1: The demarcation problem Chapter 2: Vestigial sciences Chapter 3: Hyperpoliticized sciences Chapter 4: Fighting "establishment" science Chapter 5: Mind over matter Chapter 6: Controversy is inevitable Chapter 7: The russian questions References Further Reading Index
Lccn
2022-060540
Dewey Decimal
001.9
Dewey Edition
23
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