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.
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科學究竟是什麼? ——對科學的性質和地位及其方法的評價 [英]A.F.查爾默斯 WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED SCIENCE? An assessment of the nature and status of science and its methods A.F.Chalmers 2018.11 為什麼我們要在社會學的課堂上談論它? 此pre,承接的是: ①第一講...
評分如果我告訴你,自由落體定理按照一般的想法,在邏輯上正確的可能性是零,你會怎麼想? 普遍的觀點是:因為見到任何東西都在下落時都具有幾乎相同的運動性質,牛頓通過實驗排除其他乾擾因素(比如空氣阻力等等),歸納齣自由落體定律,並進一步算齣自由落體常數,也就是g=9.8 N...
評分如果我告訴你,自由落體定理按照一般的想法,在邏輯上正確的可能性是零,你會怎麼想? 普遍的觀點是:因為見到任何東西都在下落時都具有幾乎相同的運動性質,牛頓通過實驗排除其他乾擾因素(比如空氣阻力等等),歸納齣自由落體定律,並進一步算齣自由落體常數,也就是g=9.8 N...
評分前麵幾章算是勉強知道作者在說什麼,後麵我基本完全看不懂瞭:)留待再思考幾年再重新拿起這本書吧。 在現代,科學受到高度尊崇。因為“科學的特彆之處是它從事實中推導齣來,而不是根據個人的意見。”但這句話隻有在高度限定的條件下纔能得到認可。具體而言,大多數人認為科學...
評分1 歸納主義 眼見為實 經驗歸納的事實就是科學 (但事實不代錶真相) 2 否證主義 可以校驗是否正確的纔是科學(但錯瞭也許隻是當時科學水平不夠) 3 結構科學觀 科學是圍繞一個範式體係運作的(但太強調範式的重要性) 4 貝葉斯主義 科學不是絕對的東西 可以計算概率 對錯都有可...
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What is This Thing Called Science? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載