What is this thing called science?

What is this thing called science?

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Auteur principal : Chalmers Alan Francis (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : What is this thing called science? / Alan Chalmers
Édition : 4th ed.
Publié : Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill education , 2013, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-282 p.)
Sujets :
Philosophie des sciences
Théorie de la connaissance
  • Science as knowledge derived from the facts of experience
  • Observation as practical intervention
  • Experiment
  • Deriving theories from the facts: induction
  • Introducing falsificationism
  • Sophisticated falsificationism, novel predictions and the growth of science
  • The limitations of falsificationism
  • Theories as structures I: Kuhn's paradigms
  • Theories as structures II: research programs
  • Feyerabend's anarchistic theory of science
  • Methodical changes in method
  • The Bayesian approach
  • The new experimentalism
  • Why should the world obey laws?
  • Realism and anti-realism