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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主要作者: Stump, J. B. 1969- (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Zygon
Year: 2020, 卷: 55, 發布: 3, Pages: 782-791
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Reeves, Josh A. 1976-, Against methodology in science and religion / 自然科學 / 宗教 / 本質主義
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
CF Christianity and Science
Further subjects:B Essentialism
B Language
B 進化
B Scientific Method
B History
B Pseudoscience
B Truth
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總結: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
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12622