Fringe science

The term frontier science is used in several different definitions:

• Alternative concept to pseudo-sciences,
• As the name of science, which simultaneously contact two adjacent areas of science and
• As the science of limits.

Frontier science as an alternative term for pseudo-sciences

The term is used practically as an alternative concept to pseudo-sciences. Here are ideas that have a scientific basis, in which a generally accepted research success but is still pending. An example of this is the title of the book "border Scientific trials " in which it etc. to the effect of amulets, Levitation, ghost photography goes.

Frontier science as a science of several areas of science

As a frontier sciences, the science areas are referred to, which may include one as well as to the other of two adjacent fields of science to both the - examples would biophysics (biology / physics), geography (sociology, geology, ... )

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, designated the " Historical Geography in the field of life-world environmental research ", for example, as a frontier science between geography and history.

The TRB referred to in the summary of a book by Hogrefe Publishing criminology as a frontier science of science areas criminal law and social science.

Science of limits

The University of St. Gallen published an essay on the influence of boundaries on the economy and the development of spaces. In the preface to the regional science (ie science to regions) assigned " to some extent " border sciences.