Scientific Explanation and Pseudo-Scientific Explanation

• MORITA Kunihisa

  早稲田大学高等研究所

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 科学的説明と疑似科学的説明
• カガクテキ セツメイ ト ギジ カガクテキ セツメイ

Abstract

This paper provides a new criterion to distinguish the genuine science from the pseudoscience. Morita (2008; 2009) discussed that there are two demarcation criteria between science and pseudo-science: experimental and theoretical. In this essay, I focus on the theoretical criterion. This criterion is an application of a new view of scientific explanation shown in Morita (2007; 2008 ch. 1). The point is that scientific explanation must unify the phenomena in question into common framework, and new elements which is added to model in order to deduce explicandum must be observable or be able to promote unification.

Journal

• Journal of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science

  Journal of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 39 (1), 25-30, 2011

  Japan Association for Philosophy of Science

Keywords

• General Engineering

Details

• CRID: 1390282680300394880
• NII Article ID: 110008798960
• NII Book ID: AN00036945
• DOI: 10.4288/kisoron.39.1_25
• ISSN: 18841236
• ISSN: 00227668
• NDL BIB ID: 025903813
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I025903813
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kisoron/39/1/39_KJ00007695204/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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