Ebook: What is This Thing Called Science?
Author: Alan Francis Chalmers
- Tags: Science -- Philosophy.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: University of Queensland Press
- City: St Lucia, Qld
- Edition: 4th
- Language: English
- epub
"This revised and extended edition offers a concise and illuminating treatment of major developments in the field over the last two decades, with the same accessible style which ensured the popularity of previous editions. Of particular importance is the examination of Bayesianism and the new experimentalism, as well as new chapters on the nature of scientific laws and recent trends in the realism versusRead more...
Abstract: "This revised and extended edition offers a concise and illuminating treatment of major developments in the field over the last two decades, with the same accessible style which ensured the popularity of previous editions. Of particular importance is the examination of Bayesianism and the new experimentalism, as well as new chapters on the nature of scientific laws and recent trends in the realism versus anti-realism debate."--Jacket