What Is This Thing Called Science?

Name: What Is This Thing Called Science?
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ISBN: 9780335201099

ISBN-10: 0335201091

ISBN-13: 9780335201099

Edition: 3rd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Alan F. Chalmers

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An academic bestseller in its previous edition, this book offers a jargon-free introduction to the philosophy of science. The third edition contains new historical examples and has been updated to reflect changes made over the past two decades.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Science as knowledge derived from the facts of experience


Observation as practical intervention


Experiment


Deriving theories from the facts induction


Introducing falsificationism


Sophisticated falsificationism novel predictions and the growth of science


The limitations of falsificationism


Theories as structures


I Kuhn's paradigms


Theories as structures


II research programmes


Feyerabend's anarchistic theory of science


Methodical changes in method


The Bayesian approach


The new experimentalism


Why should the world obey laws?


Realism and anti-realism


Bibliography


Index