Massimo Pigliucci on the Demarcation Problem

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How can you tell science from non-science? Karl Popper argued that the falsifiability of a hypothesis is the mark of science. Massimo Pigliucci is not so sure about that.

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0:21.2	Aries are curious and enthusiastic.
0:23.9	Pisces are generous and emotional.
0:26.7	You might read this in a horoscope.
0:29.0	Would these claims be scientific?
0:31.2	Is astrology a science? if not what distinguishes it from real science?
0:36.8	The 20th century Viennese-born philosopher Carl Popper gave an answer, but it's not one that convinces Masmo Pelucci. He has an alternative proposal for demarcating
0:47.1	science from pseudoscience.
0:49.8	Masmoplucci, welcome to Frosty Bites.
0:52.8	It's a pleasure to be here.
0:54.0	The topic we're going to focus on is the demarcation problem.
0:57.6	What is that?
0:58.6	That's a term that was coined by Carl Popper
1:01.2	at the beginning of the 20th century,
1:02.4	and it indicates the question of what exactly
1:04.8	separates science from non-science in general and more specifically science from pseudoscience.
1:11.2	So what criterion did Popper use to make that demarcation between science and pseudoscience?
1:16.0	Well, he famously thought that he had solved the problem very nicely and very clearly.
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