What Is This Thing Called Science?

A. F. Chalmers; Alan F. Chalmers

ISBN 10: 0872204529 / ISBN 13: 9780872204522

Published by Hackett Publishing Company, 1999

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A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras arenâ t guaranteedâ but the storyâ s all there! Seller Inventory # PKV.0872204529.G

Bibliographic Details

Title: What Is This Thing Called Science?

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: good

Edition: 3rd Edition

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Synopsis:

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?