Mythical Thinking, Scientific Discourses and Research Dissemination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6071013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sven Hroar Klempe (0000-0001-9207-8857, NTNU Samfunnsforskning, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-222 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1932-4502 • E-ISSN: 1936-3567 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12124-011-9160-0 |
| PMID | 21461605 |
| PMCID | PMC3100503 |
| OpenAlex | W2127057076 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article focuses on some principles for understanding. By taking Anna Mikulak's article "Mismatches between 'scientific' and 'non-scientific' ways of knowing and their contributions to public understanding of science" (IPBS 2011) as a point of departure, the idea of demarcation criteria for scientific and non-scientific discourses is addressed. Yet this is juxtaposed with mythical thinking, which is supposed to be the most salient trait of non-scientific discourses. The author demonstrates how the most widespread demarcation criterion, the criterion of verification, is self-contradictory, not only when it comes to logic, but also in the achievement of isolating natural sciences from other forms of knowledge. According to Aristotle induction is a rhetorical device and as far as scientific statements are based on inductive inferences, they are relying on humanities, which rhetoric is a part of. Yet induction also has an empirical component by being based on sense-impressions, which is not a part of the rhetoric, but the psychology. Also the myths are understood in a rhetorical (Lévi-Strauss) and a psychological (Cassirer) perspective. Thus it is argued that both scientific and non-scientific discourses can be mythical
Epistemology · Linguistics · Mythology · Natural (archaeology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Rhetoric · Rhetorical device · Rhetorical question · Salient · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Trait · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · History · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |