Ilmari Hirvonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5996522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilmari Hirvonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilmari |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirvonen |
| SIGNATURE | HIRVONEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2164-3326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pseudoscience and the Claim of Practical Utility
It has been suggested that, by definition, pseudoscientists must assert that their theories are scientific or represent the best available knowledge. However, in business consultation and self‐help literature, pseudoscientists do not often make such strong claims. Instead, they commonly appeal to the practical utility of their theories. We argue that what nevertheless makes such theories pseudoscientific is some association or connotation with sc…
Demarcation without Dogmas
This paper reviews how research on the demarcation problem has developed, starting from Popper's criterion of falsifiability and ending with recent naturalistically oriented approaches. The main differences between traditional and contemporary approaches to the problem are explicated in terms of six postulates called the traditional assumptions . It is argued that all of the assumptions can be dismissed without giving up on the demarcation proble…
Modal inferences in science
Recent epistemology of modality has seen a growing trend towards metaphysics-first approaches. Contrastingly, this paper offers a more philosophically modest account of justifying modal claims, focusing on the practices of scientific modal inferences. Two ways of making such inferences are identified and analyzed: actualist-manipulationist modality (AM) and relative modality (RM). In AM, what is observed to be or not to be the case in actuality o…
Modal inferences in science
Recent epistemology of modality has seen a growing trend towards metaphysics-first approaches. Contrastingly, this paper offers a more philosophically modest account of justifying modal claims, focusing on the practices of scientific modal inferences. Two ways of making such inferences are identified and analyzed: actualist-manipulationist modality (AM) and relative modality (RM). In AM, what is observed to be or not to be the case in actuality o…
Modal inferences in science
Recent epistemology of modality has seen a growing trend towards metaphysics-first approaches. Contrastingly, this paper offers a more philosophically modest account of justifying modal claims, focusing on the practices of scientific modal inferences. Two ways of making such inferences are identified and analyzed: actualist-manipulationist modality (AM) and relative modality (RM). In AM, what is observed to be or not to be the case in actuality o…
Demarcation without Dogmas
This paper reviews how research on the demarcation problem has developed, starting from Popper's criterion of falsifiability and ending with recent naturalistically oriented approaches. The main differences between traditional and contemporary approaches to the problem are explicated in terms of six postulates called the traditional assumptions . It is argued that all of the assumptions can be dismissed without giving up on the demarcation proble…
Pseudoscience and the Claim of Practical Utility
It has been suggested that, by definition, pseudoscientists must assert that their theories are scientific or represent the best available knowledge. However, in business consultation and self‐help literature, pseudoscientists do not often make such strong claims. Instead, they commonly appeal to the practical utility of their theories. We argue that what nevertheless makes such theories pseudoscientific is some association or connotation with sc…
Epistemology (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Philosophy of science (2 works) · Pseudoscience (2 works) · Appeal (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works)