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What Is This Thing Called Science?

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 290 pages. Cover worn, Foxing A brand new edition of an internationally renowned science bestseller. Now well into its fourth decade, What is this thing called Science? has become a classic the world over. Each decade Alan Chalmers has drawn on his experience a s a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text. In his accessible sty le, Chalmers illuminates the major developments in the field over the past few y ears.The most significant feature of this new, fourth, edition is an exte nsive postscript, in which Chalmers uses the results of his recent research into the history of atomism to illustrate and enliven key themes in the philosophy o f science. Identifying the qualitative difference between knowledge of atoms as it figures in contemporary science and metaphysical speculations about atoms com mon in philosophy since the time of Democritus proves to be a highly revealing a nd instructive way to find answers to the question 'What is this thing called Sc ience?'This new edition ensures that the book holds its place as the lead ing introduction to the philosophy of science for the foreseeable future. Artikel-Nr. 5320aa

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