What Is This Thing Called Science?: An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods

Chalmers

ISBN 10: 087220149X / ISBN 13: 9780872201491

Published by Hackett Publishing Company, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is This Thing Called Science?: An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087220149X
• ISBN 13: 9780872201491
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Book by Chalmers, A. F.

About the Author

Alan Chalmers was born in Bristol, England and has a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol, an MSc in physics from the University of Manchester and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of London. He has taught history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney since 1971 and is now an Associate Professor there. He is the author of Science and its Fabrication (Open University Press, 1990), as well as the previous two editions of What is this Thing Called Science? and many articles on history and philosophy of science.