This new edition of Chalmers's highly regarded and widely read work-translated into fifteen languages-is extensively rewritten and reorganized, reflecting the experience of the author, his colleagues, and correspondents in twenty years of teaching from the previous edition. Significant additions are new chapters on the Bayesian approach to science, the new experimentalism, the nature of scientific laws, and the realism/anti-realism debate. An ideal introduction to scientific method, Chalmers's work is both accessible to beginners and a valuable resource for advanced students and scholars.

What is this thing called Science?

Science & Math

Chalmers, Alan F.

History & Philosophy

Hackett Publishing Co.

What Is This Thing Called Science?

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?

Reference

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Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth century differed from previous periods. The key, the author argues, is the new insights into the concept of pressure that emerged during the Scientific Revolution. This came about due to contributions from such figures as Simon Stevin, Pascal, Boyle and Newton. The author compares their work with Galileo and Descartes, neither of whom grasped the need for a new conception of pressure. As a result, their contributions to hydrostatics were unproductive. The story ends with Newton insofar as his version of hydrostatics set the subject on its modern course. He articulated a technical notion of pressure that was up to the task. Newton compared the mathematical way in hydrostatics and the experimental way, and sided with the former. The subtleties that lie behind Newton's position throws light on the way in which developments in seventeenth-century science simultaneously involved mathematization and experimentation. This book serves as an example of the degree of conceptual change that new sciences often require. It will be of interest to those involved in the study of history and philosophy of science. It will also appeal to physicists as well as interested general readers.

One Hundred Years of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton (Archimedes, 51)

Springer

Chalmers kritische Reflexion über die Wissenschaftstheorie avancierte zum Standardwerk. In über 15 Sprachen übersetzt, verdankt es seine Popularität der Tatsache, dass Chalmer die komplexe Thematik auch Laien verständlich macht. Zahlreiche Beispiele illustrieren seinen hervorragenden Überblick über klassische Ansätze: Induktivismus, kritischer Rationalismus, Falsifikationismus, Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn und Feyerabend. Zusätzlich geht er auch auf aktuelle Entwicklungen ein. Plus: das Experiment, "Neuer Experimentalismus", Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie (Bayes), naturwissenschaftliche Gesetze, die aktuelle "Realismus versus Anti-Realismus-Debatte".

Wege der Wissenschaft: Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie (German Edition)

¿Qué es esa cosa llamada ciencia?

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A.

La ciencia y cómo se elabora

Esta accesible exposición de los intentos científicos modernos por destronar el pensamiento empirista se ha convertido, en el transcurso de los últimos veinticinco años, en un éxito de ventas a la vez que el texto universitario de referencia, traducido a más de quince lenguas. Las grandes teorías de la Filosofía de la ciencia del siglo pasado el falsacionismo, los paradigmas de Kuhn, la teoría anarquista de la ciencia de Feyerabend, los movimientos realistas y antirrealistas están explicadas con acierto, utilizando un mínimo de terminología técnica. La presente edición, revisada y ampliada, presenta un tratamiento conciso y esclarecedor de los desarrollos más importantes ocurridos en este campo durante las dos últimas décadas, y confirma su reputación de ser el mejor libro de texto de introducción a la Filosofía de la ciencia. «Está escrito con claridad y utilizando el mínimo de términos técnicos [...]. Introduce con éxito al lector en los asuntos básicos, y lo hace de tal modo que capta su interés, a la vez que da vida a los temas tratados.» F. John Clendinnen, Journal of Philosophy «Chalmers ha tenido la idea sumamente práctica de condensar la polémica contemporánea sobre Filosofía de la ciencia []. Un libro muy útil para estudiantes y un interesante interlocutor para quienes se interesen por estas cuestiones.» El País «[Un] clásico introductorio a la Filosofía de la ciencia.» Qué Leer

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