What is this thing called science?
By: Alan Chalmers
Edition: Fourth edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781624660399; 9781624660382
Subjects: Science; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Science as knowledge derived from the facts of experience; title: Observation as practical intervention; title: Experiment; title: Deriving theories from the facts : induction; title: Introducing falsificationism; title: Sophisticated falsificationism, novel predictions and the growth of science; title: The limitations of falsificationism; title: Theories as structures I : Kuhn's paradigms Theories as structures II : research programs; title: Feyerabend's anarchistic theory of science; title: Methodical changes in method; title: The Bayesian approach; title: The new experimentalism; title: Why should the world obey laws?; title: Realism and anti-realism; title: Epilogue to the third edition; title: Postscript.