I was happy to read your article in SI about Cicero and the Demarcation Problem.I'm tracking down some of Damien Fernandez-Beanato's works now. I use all of you as sources for editing wikipedia. Cicero's critique is now in the Astrology page.
I wonder if you are aware of Canadian philosopher Paul Thagard?
He has developed a somewhat similar matrix to the one you mention comes from Cicero/Fernandez-Beanato. This is how I described it on Thagard's Wikipedia page: His matrix is "a collection of psychological, historical and logical characteristics, against which a discipline could be compared and categorized as either science or pseudoscience." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thagard
Re: Your article about fake news. Quite a few years ago, I started to consider Honesty (i.e. the commitment to Reality) as one of the cardinal virtues. Not always easy, but it works most of the time. I came out of fundamentalism when I discovered that most everything in this echo chamber was smoke and mirrors.
Regarding the exercise of free speech ("Fake news as noxious markets"), there was a time, pre-Internet, when virtually all published material was reviewed by editors/gatekeepers whom we as consumers of news and information trusted to bring us content deemed worthy of review. We might take a step back and reconsider the value of gatekeepers to sort good from bad content and avoid the risk of limiting free speech.
I was happy to read your article in SI about Cicero and the Demarcation Problem.I'm tracking down some of Damien Fernandez-Beanato's works now. I use all of you as sources for editing wikipedia. Cicero's critique is now in the Astrology page.
I wonder if you are aware of Canadian philosopher Paul Thagard?
He has developed a somewhat similar matrix to the one you mention comes from Cicero/Fernandez-Beanato. This is how I described it on Thagard's Wikipedia page: His matrix is "a collection of psychological, historical and logical characteristics, against which a discipline could be compared and categorized as either science or pseudoscience." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thagard
Re: Your article about fake news. Quite a few years ago, I started to consider Honesty (i.e. the commitment to Reality) as one of the cardinal virtues. Not always easy, but it works most of the time. I came out of fundamentalism when I discovered that most everything in this echo chamber was smoke and mirrors.
varied and interesting
thx for the heads up on Beard. Will look for her. yes. on amazon. sorry.
Regarding the exercise of free speech ("Fake news as noxious markets"), there was a time, pre-Internet, when virtually all published material was reviewed by editors/gatekeepers whom we as consumers of news and information trusted to bring us content deemed worthy of review. We might take a step back and reconsider the value of gatekeepers to sort good from bad content and avoid the risk of limiting free speech.