Chalmers stellt einfach und anschaulich die Grundlagen der Wissenschaftstheorie sowie die wichtigsten Richtungen dieses Fachgebiets dar. Zum Verst ndnis sind keine spezifischen Vorkenntnisse n tig. Dem Autor gelingt es hervorragend, seine Leser an die klassische und neue wissenschaftstheoretische Diskussion heranzuf hren. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Darstellung stehen die Bedeutung des Experiments, die naturwissenschaftlichen Gesetze und die aktuellen Trends der Debatte zwischen Realisten und Antirealisten.

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Title: What Is This Thing Called Science?
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 162466038X
ISBN 13: 9781624660382
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 4th Edition
Condition: Good

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Co-published with the University of Queensland Press. HPC holds rights in North America and U. S. Dependencies.

Since its first publication in 1976, Alan Chalmers's highly regarded and widely read work--translated into eighteen languages--has become a classic introduction to the scientific method, known for its accessibility to beginners and its value as a resource for advanced students and scholars.

In addition to overall improvements and updates inspired by Chalmers's experience as a teacher, comments from his readers, and recent developments in the field, this fourth edition features an extensive chapter-long postscript that draws on his research into the history of atomism to illustrate important themes in the philosophy of science. Identifying the qualitative difference between knowledge of atoms as it figures in contemporary science and metaphysical speculations about atoms common in philosophy since the time of Democritus offers a revealing and instructive way to address the question at the heart of this groundbreaking work: What is this thing called science?

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Alan Chalmers is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, where he has taught since 1971.

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