What is this thing called science? / A.F. Chalmers.

By:

Chalmers, A. F. (Alan Francis), 1939-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Indianapolis : Hackett Pub., c1999.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxii, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

0872204529 (paper)
0872204537 (cloth)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

501 21

LOC classification:

Q175 .C446 1999

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	MAIN General	AUE Library Collection	Q175 .C446 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		10000311

Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-263) and index.

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