Science and Other Common Nouns: Further Implications of Anti-Essentialism

The term “science” is a common noun that is used to designate a whole range of activities. If Reeves is right—and I think he is—that there is no essence to these activities that allows them to be objectively identified and demarcated from nonscience, then what qualifies as science is determined by c...

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Autore principale: Stump, J. B. 1969- (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Zygon
Anno: 2020, Volume: 55, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 782-791
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B Reeves, Josh A. 1976-, Against methodology in science and religion / Scienze naturali / Religione / Essenzialismo
Notazioni IxTheo:AB Filosofia delle religioni
CF Cristianesimo; scienza
Altre parole chiave:B Essentialism
B Language
B Scientific Method
B Evoluzione
B History
B Pseudoscience
B Truth
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Riepilogo:The term “science” is a common noun that is used to designate a whole range of activities. If Reeves is right—and I think he is—that there is no essence to these activities that allows them to be objectively identified and demarcated from nonscience, then what qualifies as science is determined by communities. It becomes much more difficult on this antiessentialism position to identify and dismiss pseudo-science. I suggest we might find a way forward, though, by engaging a philosophical tradition that has largely been neglected in English-speaking science and religion studies, and by articulating a theory of consensus along the lines of Oreskes (2019).
ISSN:1467-9744
Comprende:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12622