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Author : Alan Francis Chalmers
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ISBN 13 : 9780702213410
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book What is this Thing Called Science? written by Alan Francis Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan F. Chalmers
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624660878
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book What Is This Thing Called Science? written by Alan F. Chalmers and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with the University of Queensland Press. HPC holds rights in North America and U. S. Dependencies. 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. In addition to overall improvements and updates inspired by Chalmers's experience as a teacher, comments from his readers, and recent developments in the field, this fourth edition features an extensive chapter-long postscript that draws on his research into the history of atomism to illustrate important themes in the philosophy of 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 offers a revealing and instructive way to address the question at the heart of this groundbreaking work: What is this thing called science?
Author : Alan Francis Chalmers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816618880
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science and Its Fabrication written by Alan Francis Chalmers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While acknowledging its theory-ladeness, Chalmers (history and philosophy, U. of Sydney) defends the objectivity of scientific knowledge against those critics for whom such knowledge is both subjective and ideological. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Alan Chalmers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048123623
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone written by Alan Chalmers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677113X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Theory and Reality written by Peter Godfrey-Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow. The second edition is thoroughly updated and expanded by the author with a new chapter on truth, simplicity, and models in science.
Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603840508
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Essential Galileo written by Galileo Galilei and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career while also letting him speak--in clear English. No other volume offers more convenient or more reliable access to Galileo's own words, whether on the telescope, the Dialogue, the trial, or the mature theory of motion. --Michael H. Shank, Professor of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Author : Alan Chalmers
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702250872
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book What Is This Thing Called Science? written by Alan Chalmers and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145162445X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Universe from Nothing written by Lawrence Maxwell Krauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?
Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231134286
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kuhn Vs. Popper written by Steve Fuller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper debated the nature of science only once, the legacy of this encounter has dominated intellectual and public discussions on the topic ever since. Kuhn's relativistic vision of science as just another human activity, like art or philosophy, triumphed over Popper's more positivistic belief in revolutionary discoveries and the superiority of scientific provability. Steve Fuller argues that not only has Kuhn's dominance had an adverse impact on the field but both thinkers have been radically misinterpreted in the process.
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
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Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions written by Thomas S. Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
