What Is This Thing Called Science?

An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Meaning

Alan F. Chalmers

288 pages, parution le 01/02/1999 (3^eme édition)

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What is the characteristic that serves to distinguish scientific knowledge from other kinds of knowledge?
What is the role of experiment in science?
What is the role of theory in science?

In clear, jargon-free language, the third edition of this highly successful introduction to the philosophy of science surveys the answers of the past hundred years to these central questions.

The previous edition of this book, translated into fifteen foreign languages, has been thoroughly revised in the light of two decades of teaching experience on the part of the author, and has been brought right up to date. The text has been enriched by many new historical examples and the early chapters have been reorganised, re-ordered and amplified to facilitate the introduction of beginners to the field.

The new edition includes new chapters on the following topics:

the new experimentalism
the Bayesian approach to science, currently in vogue
the nature of scientific laws
recent developments in the realism/anti-realism debate

These changes will enhance the value of this book as a standard university text in the philosophy of science, not just on science and philosophy courses but also in the social and human sciences such as sociology and psychology, where the need is felt for an introduction to scientific method.

L'auteur - Alan F. Chalmers

Alan Chalmers is a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK, and the Vice President of the ACM.

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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

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Éditeur(s)	Open University Press
Auteur(s)	Alan F. Chalmers
Parution	01/02/1999
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	288
Format	13,5 x 21,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	390g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780335201099
ISBN13	978-0-335-20109-9