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Loading... Qu'est-ce que la science? (original 1976; edition 1990)by A. F. Chalmers (Author)
Work InformationWhat Is This Thing Called Science? by A. F. Chalmers (Author) (1976)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Served as a first-year optional text for my course Science: History and Culture a quarter-century ago. ( ) My formal education ended before the heyday of Feyerabend, so I found this 3rd edition (1999) to be a useful way to survey recent developments in the philosophy of science. (Fully 40-50% of Chalmer's bibliography is now dated AFTER my degree.) Written in an accessible, conversational style, it provides a good overview of recent developments in the field. no reviews | add a review
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Every ten years, Alan Chalmers draws on his experience as a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text that strives to answer the philosophical question in it's title: What is This Thing Called Science? Identifying the qualitative difference between knowledge of atoms as it figures in contemporary science and metaphysical speculations about atoms common in philosophy since the time of Democritus proves to be a highly revealing and instructive way to pinpoint key features of the answer to that question. The most significant feat No library descriptions found.
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