num_pages: 266
description: 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.
language: English
title: What Is This Thing Called Science?
titlecomplete: What Is This Thing Called Science?
genres: Physics, History, Philosophy, Education, Sociology, Research, Science, History Of Science, Nonfiction, Academic
ratings_count: 1990
publisher: Hackett Publishing Company