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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Pseudoscience"”.
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Here be dragons: exploring the hinterland of science
… there. In philosophical circles, the subject of pseudoscience has stirred relatively little philosophical excitement. The demarcation project has fallen on hard times, and many philosophers have grown suspicious of the very term ‘pseudoscience’, as it is believed to suggest a naïve conception of …
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Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel
… evaluation of evolution, a resistance to pseudoscience and Calvinism, an endorsement of non-dualism, and an analysis of scientific models and methods. The generic classification of <em>Lilith </em>as a realist novel with fantastical elements is discussed.</p>
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Demystifying the Placebo Effect
… of how to demarcate between science and pseudoscience within philosophy of science. Finally, I offer a bioethical argument that maintains that the neglect of the placebo effect within medicine may be contributing to an increase in health disparities along lines of race and ethnicity.</p>
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Genius or Charlatanry? - A psychobiographical reinterpretation of the life and works of Buckminster Fuller
… the history of charlatanism, the philosophy of pseudoscience, the psychology of deceit, and an integrative approach to narcissism. The study's point of departure is Fuller's published texts, accompanied by the secondary literature on Fuller. From the leads identified in these works, the study …
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Heart of darkness
… explores how black holes became science from pseudoscience, focusing on three shifts in astronomy: detailed proper motion measurements of stars zooming around the galactic center, the discovery of the apparent relationship between galaxies and their central super massive black holes, and the …
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The World That Was : An investigation of lost cities, hidden empires, and their role in online pseudoarchaeological communities.
… successful attempts have been made to define pseudoscience, an umbrella term under which pseudoarchaeology can be seen to fall, no one definition has found a consensus among scholars investigating fraudulent archaeology.2 The intention of this dissertation is to address the definition of …
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Why meaning matters for belief diffusion in social networks
… at its worst facilitates motivated reasoning and pseudoscience. Recent research in social contagion shows that the tendency to treat new information in light of what is already known creates interdependence in the diffusion patterns of simultaneously diffusing beliefs, and that this is sufficient …
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The relationship between knowledge and power in the work of Amitav Ghosh
… the boundaries between science and pseudoscience, and challenging the 'claim to know' (CC, 103) of Western scientists such as Ross. My argument concludes with a summary of the thesis's main concerns and a brief adumbration of the ways in which Ghosh's most recent novel, The Glass …
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Archive As Cyborg: Imagining Archaeologies of the Future
Contemporary art has borrowed from the archive’s organisational structure, critiqued its hegemonic influence on the construction of cultural narratives, and reconfigured its contents to reimagine the past. However, ‘archival art practice’ has not yet extensively explored issues of Big Data, or …
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Dante Praedicator: Sermons and Preaching Culture in the Commedia
… low registers, Beatrice rails against both the pseudoscience and philosophical ornament bogging down contemporary sermons, as well as the jests and buffooneries that less erudite street preachers employ to amuse their audience and extract favors and monetary compensation from them. It will be …
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Authority and the production of knowledge in archaeology
This thesis examines the role of authority in the production of archaeological knowledge. It examines how fluid ideas and observations formed in the field become authoritative, factual, solid archaeological products, like scientific texts, reconstructions or museum displays. It asks, what makes a …