Round 2: 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,” which characterizes a discipline’s “normal” form according to Thomas Kuhn. The logical positivist criterion of verification to solve this problem was opposed by Karl Popper’s falsifiability criterion. For 10 points, name this philosophical problem concerning how to distinguish disciplines like astronomy from those like astrology. ■END■
ANSWER: demarcation problem [or problem of demarcation; accept “The Demise of the Demarcation Problem”; accept descriptions of the problem of defining science or the problem of what science is; accept descriptions of the problem of distinguishing science from non-science or pseudo-science; accept descriptions of creating an intellectual boundary of science and non-science or pseudo-science; prompt on descriptions of creating a boundary by asking “what is that boundary being used to separate?”]
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