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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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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Zygon
Ano: 2020, Volume: 55, Número: 3, Páginas: 782-791 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Reeves, Josh A. 1976-, Against methodology in science and religion
/ Ciências naturais
/ Religião
/ Essencialismo
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AB Filosofia da religião CF Cristianismo ; Ciência |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Essentialism
B Language B Scientific Method B Evolução B History B Pseudoscience B Truth |
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| Resumo: | 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). |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12622 |