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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Главный автор: Stump, J. B. 1969- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
В: Zygon
Год: 2020, Том: 55, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 782-791
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Reeves, Josh A. 1976-, Against methodology in science and religion / Естественные науки (мотив) / Религия (мотив) / Эссенциализм
Индексация IxTheo:AB Философия религии
CF Христианство и наука
Другие ключевые слова:B Essentialism
B Language
B Scientific Method
B History
B Pseudoscience
B Truth
B Эволюция
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Итог: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
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12622