TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chalmers,A.F.
TI  - What is this thing called science?
SN  - 0872204529 (paper)
AV  - Q175 .C446 1999
U1  - 501 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Indianapolis
PB  - Hackett Pub.
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
ER  -