Round 100: Tossup 17

Description acceptable. A 2013 essay collection by Pigliucci and Boudry “reconsiders” this problem by arguing against a paper which discusses three “metaphilosophical” questions regarding it. Paul Thagard gave two conditions to solve this problem, the subject of a Larry Laudan paper titled for its “demise.” Michèle Lamont built on Thomas F. Gieryn’s idea of a type of “work” initially proposed to solve this problem. One solution to this problem distinguishes activities that engage in (*) “puzzle-solving,” (10[2])which characterizes a discipline’s “normal” form according to Thomas Kuhn. (10[1])The logical positivist criterion of verification (10[1])to solve this problem was opposed by Karl Popper’s falsifiability (10[1])criterion. For 10 points, name this philosophical problem concerning how to distinguish disciplines like astronomy from those like astrology. ■END■

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