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What is this thing called science? By; A. F. Chalmers

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Buckingham, Open University Press, 2011Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxii, 266 s. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject(s):
LOC classification:
  • Q175  C31
Contents:
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
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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

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