What Is This Thing Called Science?
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What Is This Thing Called Science?

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What Is This Thing Called Science?

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780702250873
Edition
4
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophical Essays

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Epigragh
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the first edition
  7. Preface to the second edition
  8. Preface to the third edition
  9. Preface to the fourth edition
  10. Introduction
  11. CHAPTER 1: Science as knowledge derived from the facts of experience
  12. CHAPTER 2: Observation as practical intervention
  13. CHAPTER 3: Experiment
  14. CHAPTER 4: Deriving theories from the facts: induction
  15. CHAPTER 5: Introducing falsificationism
  16. CHAPTER 6: Sophisticated falsificationism, novel predictions and the growth of science
  17. CHAPTER 7: The limitations of falsificationism
  18. CHAPTER 8: Theories as structures I: Kuhn’s paradigms
  19. CHAPTER 9: Theories as structures II: research programs
  20. CHAPTER 10: Feyerabend’s anarchistic theory of science
  21. CHAPTER 11: Methodical changes in method
  22. CHAPTER 12: The Bayesian approach
  23. CHAPTER 13: The new experimentalism
  24. CHAPTER 14: Why should the world obey laws?
  25. CHAPTER 15: Realism and anti-realism
  26. CHAPTER 16: Epilogue to the third edition
  27. CHAPTER 17: Postscript
  28. Notes
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index of names
  31. Imprint page