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On the Fringe
Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
Buch von Michael D Gordin
Sprache: Englisch

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Many people would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under the umbrella of pseudoscience - astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields "pseudo" and differentiates them from genuine science is a far more complex issue. On the Fringe explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation. Michael D. Gordin guides readers along a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, focusing on some of the central debates about what science is and is not, and how such controversies have shifted over the centuries. On the Fringe provides a historical tour through various theories, providing readers with the tools to think deeply about scientific controversies both past and present.
Many people would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under the umbrella of pseudoscience - astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields "pseudo" and differentiates them from genuine science is a far more complex issue. On the Fringe explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation. Michael D. Gordin guides readers along a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, focusing on some of the central debates about what science is and is not, and how such controversies have shifted over the centuries. On the Fringe provides a historical tour through various theories, providing readers with the tools to think deeply about scientific controversies both past and present.
Über den Autor
Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of modern science in Russia, Europe, and North America, in particular on issues related to the history of fringe science, the early years of the nuclear arms race, Russian and Soviet science, language and science, and Albert Einstein. He is the author of The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe, Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English, and Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Chapter 1: The Demarcation Problem

  • Chapter 2: Vestigial Sciences

  • Chapter 3: Hyperpoliticized Sciences

  • Chapter 4: Fighting "Establishment" Science

  • Chapter 5: Mind over Matter

  • Chapter 6: Controversy Is Inevitable

  • Chapter 7: The Russian Questions

  • Notes

  • Further Reading

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197555767
ISBN-10: 0197555764
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gordin, Michael D
Hersteller: Sydney University Press
Maße: 218 x 150 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Michael D Gordin
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,262 kg
Artikel-ID: 121089963
Über den Autor
Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of modern science in Russia, Europe, and North America, in particular on issues related to the history of fringe science, the early years of the nuclear arms race, Russian and Soviet science, language and science, and Albert Einstein. He is the author of The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe, Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English, and Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Chapter 1: The Demarcation Problem

  • Chapter 2: Vestigial Sciences

  • Chapter 3: Hyperpoliticized Sciences

  • Chapter 4: Fighting "Establishment" Science

  • Chapter 5: Mind over Matter

  • Chapter 6: Controversy Is Inevitable

  • Chapter 7: The Russian Questions

  • Notes

  • Further Reading

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197555767
ISBN-10: 0197555764
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gordin, Michael D
Hersteller: Sydney University Press
Maße: 218 x 150 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Michael D Gordin
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,262 kg
Artikel-ID: 121089963
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