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What is this Thing Called Science?

By: Alan Francis Chalmers

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What is this Thing Called Science?

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A brand new edition of an internationally renowned science bestseller. Now well into its fourth decade, What is this thing called Science? has become a classic the world over. Each decade Alan Chalmers has drawn on his experience as a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text. In his accessible style, Chalmers illuminates the major developments in the field over the past few years. The most significant feature of this new, fourth, edition is 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 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 find answers to the question 'What is this thing called Science?' This new edition ensures that the book holds its place as the leading introduction to the philosophy of science for the foreseeable future.

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0702249637

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What is this Thing Called Science?

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702230936

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Science and Its Fabrication

By: Alan Francis Chalmers

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Science and Its Fabrication

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While acknowledging its theory-ladeness, Chalmers (history and philosophy, U. of Sydney) defends the objectivity of scientific knowledge against those critics for whom such knowledge is both subjective and ideological. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816618887

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9780816618880

One Hundred Years of Pressure

Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton

By: Alan F. Chalmers

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One Hundred Years of Pressure

Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton

By: Alan F. Chalmers

This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth century differed from previous periods. The key, the author argues, is the new insights into the concept of pressure that emerged during the Scientific Revolution. This came about due to contributions from such figures as Simon Stevin, Pascal, Boyle and Newton. The author compares their work with Galileo and Descartes, neither of whom grasped the need for a new conception of pressure. As a result, their contributions to hydrostatics were unproductive. The story ends with Newton insofar as his version of hydrostatics set the subject on its modern course. He articulated a technical notion of pressure that was up to the task. Newton compared the mathematical way in hydrostatics and the experimental way, and sided with the former. The subtleties that lie behind Newton's position throws light on the way in which developments in seventeenth-century science simultaneously involved mathematization and experimentation. This book serves as an example of the degree of conceptual change that new sciences often require. It will be of interest to those involved in the study of history and philosophy of science. It will also appeal to physicists as well as interested general readers.

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Springer

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3319565281

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9783319565286

Age of Optimism

By: Alan Palmer

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Age of Optimism

By: Alan Palmer

Traces milestones in history from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 through the opening of Japan to international trade in 1854.

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0882250728

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What is this Thing Called Science?

What is this Thing Called Science?

What is this Thing Called Science?

What is this Thing Called Science?

Science and Its Fabrication

Science and Its Fabrication

One Hundred Years of Pressure

One Hundred Years of Pressure

Age of Optimism

Age of Optimism

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