Feng Shui and the Demarcation Project
@article{FernandezBeanato2021FengSA, title={Feng Shui and the Demarcation Project}, author={Damian Fernandez-Beanato}, journal={Science \& Education}, year={2021} }
The vast majority of well-informed philosophers of science and scientists who are clearly (uncontroversially) scientists are able to extensionally differentiate between almost all scientific and non-scientific practices, disciplines, theories, attitudes, modes of procedure, etc., and do so or would do so in much the same way. This legitimately leads to the conclusion that the main problem of scientific demarcation has already, in a sense, been solved, although an explicative integrated account…
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Trustworthiness of Science in Debate: Challenges, Responses, and Implications
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