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Author: Alan Chalmers Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press ISBN: 0702250872 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Every ten years, Alan Chalmers draws on his experience as a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text that strives to answer the philosophical question in it’s title: What is This Thing Called Science? Identifying the qualitative difference between knowledge of atoms as it figures in contemporary science and metaphysical speculations about atoms common in philosophy since the time of Democritus proves to be a highly revealing and instructive way to pinpoint key features of the answer to that question. The most significant feature of this fourth edition is the extensive postscript, in which Chalmers uses the results of his recent research on the history of atomism to illustrate and enliven key themes in the philosophy of science. This new edition ensures that the book holds its place as the leading introduction to the philosophy of science for the foreseeable future.
Author: Alan Chalmers Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press ISBN: 0702250872 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Every ten years, Alan Chalmers draws on his experience as a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text that strives to answer the philosophical question in it’s title: What is This Thing Called Science? Identifying the qualitative difference between knowledge of atoms as it figures in contemporary science and metaphysical speculations about atoms common in philosophy since the time of Democritus proves to be a highly revealing and instructive way to pinpoint key features of the answer to that question. The most significant feature of this fourth edition is the extensive postscript, in which Chalmers uses the results of his recent research on the history of atomism to illustrate and enliven key themes in the philosophy of science. This new edition ensures that the book holds its place as the leading introduction to the philosophy of science for the foreseeable future.
Author: Alan F. Chalmers Publisher: Hackett Publishing ISBN: 9780872204522 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
An introduction to modern views about the nature of science, discussing science as knowledge derived from the facts of experience, observation as practical intervention, experiment, induction, falsificationism, Kuhn's paradigms, Feyerabend's anarchistic theory of science, the Bayesian approach, realism, and other topics.
Author: Alan Francis Chalmers Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia) ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
Since its first publication in 1976, Alan Chalmers's highly regarded and widely read work--translated into eighteen languages--has become a classic introduction to the scientific method, known for its accessibility to beginners and its value as a resource for advanced students and scholars. -- Amazon.com
Author: Alan Chalmers Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9048123623 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. This is not history for its own sake. By critically reflecting on the various versions of atomic theories of the past the author is able to grapple with the question of what sets scientific knowledge apart from other kinds of knowledge, philosophical knowledge in particular. He thereby engages historically with issues concerning the nature and status of scientific knowledge that were dealt with in a more abstract way in his What Is This Thing Called Science?, a book that has been a standard text in philosophy of science for three decades and which is available in nineteen languages. Speculations about the fundamental structure of matter from Democritus to the seventeenth-century mechanical philosophers and beyond are construed as categorically distinct from atomic theories amenable to experimental investigation and support and as contributing little to the latter from a historical point of view. The thesis will provoke historians and philosophers of science alike and will require a revision of a range of standard views in the history of science and philosophy. The book is key reading for students and scholars in History and Philosophy of Science and will be instructive for and provide a challenge to philosophers, historians and scientists more generally.
Author: Alan Chalmers
Author: Alan Chalmers
Author: Alan F. Chalmers
Author: Alan F. Chalmers
Author: Alan Francis Chalmers
Author: Alan Francis Chalmers
Author: Alan F. Chalmers
Author: A. F. Chalmrs
Author: Alan Francis Chalmers
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Author: Alan Chalmers