Immunizing Strategies and Epistemic Defense Mechanisms

Philosophia

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 145-161

  Boudry, Maarten ^a   Braeckman, Johan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief systems; Epistemic defense mechanisms; Immunizing strategies; Pseudoscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650136613     PISSN: 00483893     EISSN: 15749274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11406-010-9254-9     Document Type: Article

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