Dr. Alan Chalmers has been a Visiting Scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. For the 2007 fall semester he will be a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He was born in Bristol, England in 1939, and attained a BSc in physics at the University of Bristol, and his MSc in physics from the University of Manchester. His PhD on the electromagnetic theory of J.C. Maxwell was granted by the University of London. Dr Chalmers came to Australia in 1971 and worked for some years at the University of Sydney.
Dr. 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.
發表於2025-02-27
What is this thing called science? 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
理論概論寫得好其實很難,需要作者對學科內有史以來各類觀點的深入瞭解和客觀評估,加上作者自身的理論體係,為此教材類書的獨創性增色不少,避免瞭泛泛之談。Chalmers從1976年編寫第一版科學哲學教材開始,至1998已更新到第三版。在科學學科內部日益走嚮專傢化細分化的大環境...
評分科學究竟是什麼?當我們提齣這個問題的時候,就像一個仰望星空的小孩。書裏沒有給齣確切的答案,隻是復述並分析瞭很多有代錶性的迴答。在我看來,科學就像星空、“道”一樣,無法用“A是B”這種直接的方式描述。
評分否定實證主義(歸納邏輯)及否證主義的論證很精彩。庫恩和拉卡托斯的理論,在我看來就像是以太,毫無用處,完全可以用奧卡姆剃刀給他颳的乾乾淨淨(什麼都想說明,而又什麼也講不清)。無政府主義我很喜歡,但是作者有過度演繹無政府主義,甚至有些扭麯該理論的嫌疑(有太多矛...
評分 評分比較簡單的科學哲學書籍,讀的深入的話還是有所收獲的,前幾章非常清晰,後麵批判歸納之後有些不如之前簡明,可能因為問題也更加復雜瞭,或許由於齣版時間關係本書隻說道費耶阿本德,對於勞丹,邦格等沒有敘述。
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What is this thing called science? 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載