What Is This Thing Called Science?

Chalmers was elected a fellow of the Academy of Humanities in 1997. His primary research interest is the philosophy of science and he is author of the best-selling textbook What Is This Thing Called Science? which has been translated into many languages.He has been a visiting scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. For the 2007 fall semester he was a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh.Chalmers is an associate professor at the History and Philosophy of Science department of the University of Sydney.Books:Science and Its Fabrication, Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press, 1990, pp. 142+xii. (Translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese and Chinese.)What Is This Thing Called Science?, 3rd revised edition, University of Queensland Press, Hackett, 1999. (Originally published 1976; second edition: 1982.)The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone – How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms, Springer, 2009, pp. 288+xii.

出版者:Open University Press

作者:Alan Chalmers

页数:288

出版时间:1999-2-1

价格:USD 53.98

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780335201099

图书标签:科学哲学哲学科普英文原版science科學哲學Philosophy李笑來

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科学哲学是对科学活动的反思。科学依赖于归纳，然而归纳虽然是实用的但是是不可靠的。然后有了波普尔的证伪主义，库恩的范式革命，拉卡托斯的研究纲领等等流派。 证伪主义的思路其实很简单，也很重要，是判定科学性的一个判据。就是看理论是否可能提出反例来，就是不能证伪的...  

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这是我研究生期间导师开的书单的第一本，也是我读的第一本比较专业的书。但它很是好读，特别是前面部分，很是形象。想我以前是理科生，读这样书也不觉得晦涩，更能引领读者慢慢进行思考，可以说是一本值得推荐的科学哲学的入门读物。

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