Introduction: Why the Demarcation Problem Matters ............... 1
MASSIMO PIGUUCCI AND MAARTEN BOUDRY
Part 1 What's the problem with the demarcation problem?
1 The Demarcation Problem ...................................... 9
A (Belated) Response to Laudan
MASSIMO PIGUUCCI
2 Science and Pseudoscience ................................... 29
How to Demarcate after the (Alleged) Demise of the
Demarcation Problem
MARTIN MAHNER
3 Toward a Demarcation of Science from Pseudoscience .......... 45
JAMES LADYMAN
4 Defining Pseudoscience and Science .......................... 61
SVEN OVE HANSSON
5 Loki's Wager and Laudan's Error ............................. 79
On Genuine and Territorial Demarcation
MAARTEN BOUDRY
Part II. History and sociology of pseudoscience
6 The Problem of Demarcation ................................. 101
History and Future
THOMAS NICKLES
7 Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Falsely So-Called ...... 121
DANIEL P. THURS AND RONALD L. NUMBERS
8 Paranormalism and Pseudoscience as Deviance ................ 145
ERICH GOODE
9 Belief Buddies versus Critical Communities ................. 165
The Social Organization of Pseudoscience
NORETTA KOERTGE
Part III. The borderlands between science and pseudoscience
10 Science and the Messy, Uncontrollable World of Nature ...... 183
CAROL E. CLELAND AND SHERALEE BRINDELL
11 Science and Pseudoscience .................................. 203
The Difference in Practice and the Difference It Makes
MICHAEL SHERMER
12 Evolution .................................................. 225
From Pseudoscience to Popular Science, from Popular
Science to Professional Science
MICHAEL RUSE
Part IV. Science and the supernatural
13 Is a Science of the Supernatural Possible? ................. 247
EVAN FALES
14 Navigating the Landscape between Science and Religious
Pseudoscience .............................................. 263
Can Hume Help?
BARBARA FORREST
Part V. True believers and their tactics
15 Argumentation and Pseudoscience ............................ 287
The Case for an Ethics of Argumentation
JEAN PAUL VAN BENOEGEM
16 Why Alternative Medicine Can Be Scientifically Evaluated ... 305
Countering the Evasions of Pseudoscience
JESPER JERKERT
17 Pseudoscience .............................................. 321
The Case of Freud's Sexual Etiology of the Neuroses
FRANK CIOFFI
18 The Holocaust Denier's Playbook and the Tobacco
Smokescreen ................................................ 341
Common Threads in the Thinking and Tactics of Denialists
and Pseudoscientists
DONALD PROTHERO
Part VI. The cognitive roots of pseudoscience
19 Evolved to Be Irrational? .................................. 361
Evolutionary and Cognitive Foundations of Pseudosciences
STEFAAN BLANCKE AND JOHAN DE SMEDT
20 Werewolves in Scientists' Clothing ......................... 381
Understanding Pseudoscientific Cognition
KONRAD TALMONT-KAMINSKI
21 The Salem Region ........................................... 397
Two Mindsets about Science
JOHN S. WILKINS
22 Pseudoscience and Idiosyncratic Theories of Rational
Belief .....................................................
NICHOLAS SHACKEL
23 Agentive Thinking and Illusions of Understanding ........... 439
FILIP BUEKENS
Contributors .................................................. 459
Index ......................................................... 461
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