Secular Café: Susan Haack: Six Signs of Scientism

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Susan Haack: Six Signs of Scientism May 28th 2012, 22:02 Susan Haack has also written about "the six signs of scientism": 1. The honorific use of "science" and its cognates 2. Inappropriately borrowed scientific trappings 3. Preoccupation with "the problem of demarcation" 4. The quest for "scientific method" 5. Looking to the sciences for answers to questions beyond their scope 6. Denigrating the non-scientific Susan Haack: Six Signs of Scientism (PDF) Susan Haack – Six Signs of Scientism – YouTube Some of what she describes is what Richard Feynman had called Cargo Cult Science, something that has the appearance of science but not its substance. Some of it may also be called physics envy: Quote: In science, the term physics envy is used to criticize a tendency (perceived or real) of softer sciences and liberal arts to try to obtain mathematical expressions of their fundamental concepts, as an attempt to move them closer to harder sciences, particularly physics. As to the "demarcation question", I prefer to avoid it. I consider pseudoscience to be failed science or greatly flawed science.

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