[https://psyche.co/ideas/pseudophilosophy-encourages-confused-self-indulgent-thinking](https://psyche.co/ideas/pseudophilosophy-encourages-confused-self-indulgent-thinking) “Epistemic unconscientiousness is an essential but not exhaustive component of pseudoscience. To count as pseudoscientific, a belief must also be about some scientific issue, and this is precisely where pseudoscience and pseudophilosophy differ. Just like pseudoscience, pseudophilosophy is defined by a lack of epistemic conscientiousness, but its subject matter is philosophical rather than scientific.”