@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/ANTW2015.3.VERH, author = "Verhaegh, Sander and van der Kolk, Pieter", title = "Een middenweg voor sciƫntisme", journal= "Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte", year = "2015", volume = "107", number = "3", pages = "285-299", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2015.3.VERH", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/ANTW2015.3.VERH", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "2352-1244", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "common sense", keywords = "self-referential incoherence", keywords = "science", keywords = "scientism", abstract = "Abstract Towards a moderate scientism Scientism, the view that only scientifically supported beliefs are epistemically justified, faces two influential problems: (1) scientism itself does not seem to be scientifically supported and hence self-referentially incoherent; and (2) scientism seems to dismiss many plausible ordinary beliefs as unjustified. In this paper, we show that both problems presuppose a needlessly narrow conception of science and that when scientism is based on a broader, more realistic conception of science neither problem arises. Furthermore, we argue that our variant of scientism is still strong enough to have philosophical bite.", }