The Dissenter #71 Massimo Pigliucci: The Philosophy of Pseudoscience
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Dr. Massimo Pigliucci is Professor of Philosophy at CUNY-City College, formerly co-host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast, and formerly the editor in chief for the online magazine Scientia Salon. He’s also the author of several books, including Phenotypic Plasticity, Philosophy of Pseudoscience, and How to Be a Stoic.
In today’s episode, we talk about how we can demarcate pseudoscience from science. We go more specifically into certain criteria, like falsifiability, predictability, explicability, and replicability; the distinction between pseudoscience and anti-science; and we also discuss if science, in the end, is a cultural construct, though not as the postmoderns would have it.
Time Links:
00:43 What is the demarcation problem?
02:41 Falsifiability
09:32 Predictability and explicability
13:50 Is there a set of criteria that infallibly identify something as scientific?
22:21 The disunity of science
26:52 The problem with replicability
35:38 Is it important to distinguish pseudoscience from anti-science?
38:28 The example of Intelligent Design
39:55 Why is it important to properly distinguish science from pseudoscience?
43:17 Is science a cultural construct?
50:15 Is reliance on science experts an argument from authority?
54:24 Follow Dr. Pigliucci’s work
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