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What Is This Thing Called Science.
Now well into its fourth decade, What is this thing called science? has become something of a classic the world over (it's available in nineteen languages). Each decade Alan Chalmers has drawn on his experience as a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text. The most significant fea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Queensland Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 4th ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a Now well into its fourth decade, What is this thing called science? has become something of a classic the world over (it's available in nineteen languages). Each decade Alan Chalmers has drawn on his experience as a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text. The most significant feature of this new, fourth, edition is the addition of an extensive postscript, in which Chalmers uses the results of his recent research into the history of atomism to illustrate and enliven key themes in the philosophy of science. Identifying the qualitative difference between knowledge of atoms as it. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Author biography; Title page; Epigragh; Contents; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; Preface to the fourth edition; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: Science as knowledge derived from the facts of experience; A widely held commonsense view of science; Seeing is believing; Visual experiences not determined solely by the object viewed; Observable facts expressed as statements; Why should facts precede theory?; The fallibility of observation statements; Further reading; CHAPTER 2: Observation as practical intervention. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Observation: passive and private or active and public?Galileo and the moons of Jupiter; Observable facts objective but fallible; Further reading; CHAPTER 3: Experiment; Not just facts but relevant facts; The production and updating of experimental results; Transforming the experimental base of science: historical examples; Experiment as an adequate basis for science; Further reading; CHAPTER 4: Deriving theories from the facts: induction; Introduction; Baby logic; Can scientific laws be derived from the facts?; What constitutes a good inductive argument?; Further problems with inductivism. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The appeal of inductivismFurther reading; CHAPTER 5: Introducing falsificationism; Introduction; A logical point in favour of falsificationism; Falsifiability as a criterion for theories; Degree of falsifiability, clarity and precision; Falsificationism and progress; Further reading; CHAPTER 6: Sophisticated falsificationism, novel predictions and the growth of science; Relative rather than absolute degrees of falsifiability; Increasing falsifiability and ad hoc modifications; Confirmation in the falsificationist account of science; Boldness, novelty and background knowledge. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Comparison of the inductivist and falsificationist view of confirmationAdvantages of falsificationism over inductivism; Further reading; CHAPTER 7: The limitations of falsificationism; Problems stemming from the logical situation; Falsificationism inadequate on historical grounds; The Copernican Revolution; Inadequacies of the falsificationist demarcation criterion and Popper's response; Further reading; CHAPTER 8: Theories as structures I: Kuhn's paradigms; Theories as structures; Introducing Thomas Kuhn; Paradigms and normal science; Crisis and revolution. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The function of normal science and revolutionsThe merits of Kuhn's account of science; Kuhn's ambivalence on progress through revolutions; Objective knowledge; Further reading; CHAPTER 9: Theories as structures II: research programs; Introducing Imre Lakatos; Lakatos's research programs; Methodology within a program and the comparison of programs; Novel predictions; Testing the methodology against history; Problems with Lakatos's methodology; Further reading; CHAPTER 10: Feyerabend's anarchistic theory of science; The story so far; Feyerabend's case against method. | |
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