What is this thing called science? / A.F. Chalmers.
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TextPublication details: Indianapolis : Hackett Pub., c1999.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxii, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0872204529 (paper)
- 0872204537 (cloth)
- 501 21
- Q175 .C446 1999
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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.
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