What Is This Thing Called Science?

"What Is This Thing Called Science?" is a best-selling textbook by Dr. Alan Chalmers. It is a guide to the Philosophy of Science which outlines the shortcomings of a naive empiricist accounts of science, and describes and assesses modern attempts to replace them. The book is written with minimal use of technical terms. [ [http://www.the-rathouse.com/rehfhuhfhfyefy```vAChalmers.html What is this thing called science? review] ]

"What Is This Thing Called Science?" was first published in 1976, and has been translated into many languages. [ [http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/philosophy/visiting/alan_chalmers.php Alan Chalmers, (BSc Bristol, MSc Manchester, PhD London)] ]

Dr. Chalmers has been a Visiting Scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. [ [http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/philosophy/visiting/alan_chalmers.php Alan Chalmers, (BSc Bristol, MSc Manchester, PhD London)] ]

Three editions of the book

*"What Is This Thing Called Science?", Queensland University Press and Open University Press, 1976, pp. 157 + xvii. (Translated into German, Dutch, Italian Spanish and Chinese)
*"What Is This Thing Called Science?", Queensland University Press, Open University Press and Hackett, 2nd revised edition (6 new chapters), 1982, pp. 179 + xix. (Translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Portuguese, Polish and Danish, Greek and Estonian.)
*"What Is This Thing Called Science?", University of Queensland Press, Open University press, 3rd revised edition, Hackett,1999.

ee also

* "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", by Thomas Kuhn
* "The Logic of Scientific Discovery", by Karl Popper

References

External links

* [http://www.the-rathouse.com/shortreviews/WhatisThisThingCalledScience.html Review of "What is this Thing Called Science?"]