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What is this thing called science? / Alan Chalmers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2013]Copyright date: c2013Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 1 online resource (xxi, 282 pages.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780702250866 (electronic bk.)
  • 0702250864 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 501 23
LOC classification:
  • Q175 .C446 2013
Online resources:
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 -- Epilogue to the third edition -- Postscript.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Epilogue to the third edition -- Postscript.

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