The paper reconstructs and examines the meta-criterion of demarcation between science and pseudo-science as proposed by Laudan (1983). The analysis shows that Laudan’s meta-criterion overlooks a crucial demand that any reliable criterion should satisfy. This, in turn, opens up a possibility of a non-ad hoc modification of Laudan’s proposal. When the meta-criterion finally meets the requirement which states that any reliable criterion of demarcation has to enable a comparison of any two scientific theories with regard to the degree of their progressiveness, it is possible to point out at least one advanced theory which gives an acceptable definition of science, i.e. Lakatos’s methodology of scientific research programs – strangely enough, no...
Discutindo a psicanálise, a partir de sua inserção na linguagem e nas Ciências Humanas, sobretudo ba...
This research aims to present the central motivations of the criticism of skepticism that encompasse...
Nowadays, one of the fundamental aspects and object of research in didactics of chemistry, is the on...
Discuto algumas dificuldades nos escritos de Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan e Michael Friedman, nas quai...
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1999) provides a coherent and empirically falsifiab...
This article seeks to discuss the position of Charles Sanders Peirce and his first students of Logic...
This brief paper seeks to assess the possibility of an ethic in Descartes\u27 philosophy, beyond the...
This article starts with an examination of Saul Kripke’s views of the semantics of modal logic and c...
This article argued against the praxeological thesis (the praxeological conception of meaning of the...
The issue of the epistemological status of hypotheses postulating unobservable entities became promi...
IN THIS paper, one attempts to develop a method for investigating counterfactual histories of scienc...
The analysis of prescriptive and descriptive languages is something that Analytic Philosophy has und...
Lavoisier's chemical nomenclature was systematized based on the Logic of Condillac, and both authors...
This paper examines Larry Laudan's claim that "ever since antiquity critics of epistemic realism hav...
In this article, we aim to show, by means of several examples, that Pierre Duhem's logical distincti...
Discutindo a psicanálise, a partir de sua inserção na linguagem e nas Ciências Humanas, sobretudo ba...
This research aims to present the central motivations of the criticism of skepticism that encompasse...
Nowadays, one of the fundamental aspects and object of research in didactics of chemistry, is the on...
Discuto algumas dificuldades nos escritos de Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan e Michael Friedman, nas quai...
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1999) provides a coherent and empirically falsifiab...
This article seeks to discuss the position of Charles Sanders Peirce and his first students of Logic...
This brief paper seeks to assess the possibility of an ethic in Descartes\u27 philosophy, beyond the...
This article starts with an examination of Saul Kripke’s views of the semantics of modal logic and c...
This article argued against the praxeological thesis (the praxeological conception of meaning of the...
The issue of the epistemological status of hypotheses postulating unobservable entities became promi...
IN THIS paper, one attempts to develop a method for investigating counterfactual histories of scienc...
The analysis of prescriptive and descriptive languages is something that Analytic Philosophy has und...
Lavoisier's chemical nomenclature was systematized based on the Logic of Condillac, and both authors...
This paper examines Larry Laudan's claim that "ever since antiquity critics of epistemic realism hav...
In this article, we aim to show, by means of several examples, that Pierre Duhem's logical distincti...
Discutindo a psicanálise, a partir de sua inserção na linguagem e nas Ciências Humanas, sobretudo ba...
This research aims to present the central motivations of the criticism of skepticism that encompasse...
Nowadays, one of the fundamental aspects and object of research in didactics of chemistry, is the on...