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.
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What is this thing called science? 2024 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...
評分寫在前麵: 這篇文章並非專為這本書所寫,但確實是很大程度上受到這本書的影響纔寫的。是一組在寫的文章之一。另一篇是:《“方差”漫談之一:從人和猴子說起》(http://www.douban.com/note/256625376/)希望有興趣的朋友能來交流指正~ 正文: 憑藉一...
評分最近讀瞭查爾莫斯的《科學究竟是什麼》,討論的這麼一個問題:如何界定科學與非科學?更直白一點就是,科學的特徵是什麼? 對於這個問題,很多人第一反應當然是波普爾的否證主義:科學是可證僞的。比如弗洛伊德的心理學,由於不承擔被證僞的風險,因此不屬於科學的範疇。 但這...
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What is this thing called science? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載