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:Hackett Publishing Company

作者:A. F. Chalmers

页数:266

出版时间:1999-1

价格:USD 16.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780872204522

This new edition of Chalmers's highly regarded and widely read work-translated into fifteen languages-is extensively rewritten and reorganized, reflecting the experience of the author, his colleagues, and correspondents in twenty years of teaching from the previous edition. Significant additions are new chapters on the Bayesian approach to science, the new experimentalism, the nature of scientific laws, and the realism/anti-realism debate. An ideal introduction to scientific method, Chalmers's work is both accessible to beginners and a valuable resource for advanced students and scholars.

读后感

怎么说呢，内容当然是不错啦。只是因为是考研制定的书，所以没有选择商务版的，从卓越上买会后，发现书真的很厚，不过字体真的比较大，这么多年没有看到过这么大的字体啦，字体间距也比较宽，好像是上小学时的语文书哈哈  

题目是乱写的，看起来不会那么无趣 一、科学的边界问题 首先，我只是一个被物理系拒收，不是很情愿（但却很幸运的外打正着）地跑去学社会科学的家伙。所以我对科学、科学家和科学研究活动并没有什么发表意见的资格，在此我只能本着对科学精神的敬畏与向往描述下我感知到...  

应该说社科院哲学所邱仁宗先生是科学哲学界的老前辈了。不过，商务印书馆2007年出版、鲁旭东翻译的该书的另一中译本不论是对原文的理解上还是文字的通顺、易读上都比邱译要好。  

题目是乱写的，看起来不会那么无趣 一、科学的边界问题 首先，我只是一个被物理系拒收，不是很情愿（但却很幸运的外打正着）地跑去学社会科学的家伙。所以我对科学、科学家和科学研究活动并没有什么发表意见的资格，在此我只能本着对科学精神的敬畏与向往描述下我感知到...