What is this thing called science? /
Chalmers, A. F. 1939-
What is this thing called science? / A.F. Chalmers. - 3rd ed. - Indianapolis : Hackett Pub., c1999. - xxii, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-263) and index.
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 programs -- 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.
0872204529 (paper) 0872204537 (cloth)
99071498
Science--Philosophy.
Science--Philosophy.
Q175 / .C446 1999
501
What is this thing called science? / A.F. Chalmers. - 3rd ed. - Indianapolis : Hackett Pub., c1999. - xxii, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-263) and index.
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 programs -- 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.
0872204529 (paper) 0872204537 (cloth)
99071498
Science--Philosophy.
Science--Philosophy.
Q175 / .C446 1999
501