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Science, Pseudo-Science and Society
Marsha Hanen, Margaret Osler, Robert Weyant, Marsha Hanen, Margaret Osler, Robert Weyant
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Science, Pseudo-Science and Society
Marsha Hanen, Margaret Osler, Robert Weyant, Marsha Hanen, Margaret Osler, Robert Weyant
About This Book
This volume collects the papers presented at a conference on "Science, Pseudoâscience and Society, " sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities and held at the University of Calgary, May 10â12, 1979. More than many such collections, this one preserves some trace of the intellectual excitement which surrounded this gathering of scholars.
A primary inspiration for the symposium on "Science, Pseudoscience, and Society" was a growing awareness of the crucial role the study of pseudoâscience plays in the areas of contemporary scholarship which are concerned with the nature of science and its relationship to broader social issues.
This volume is organized around three major questions concerning the relationships among science, pseudoâscience, and society. The papers in the first section address the question of whether it is possible to draw a sharp demarcation between science and pseudoâscience and what the criteria of that demarcation might be. The papers in the second section, recognizing the historical importance of various of the pseudoâsciences, consider their impactâpositive or negativeâon the development of the sciences themselves. The papers in the third section deal with the question of the relationship between the sciences and pseudoâsciences, on the one hand, and social factors on the other.
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Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
- I. THE PROBLEM OF DEMARCATION
- II. THE IMPACT OF PSEUDO-SCIENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE
- III. SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE
- CLOSING REMARKS