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What Is This Thing Called Science?
by Alan Chalmers

This indispensable new edition brings Chalmers' popular text up to date with contemporary trends and confirms its status as the best introductory textbook on the philosophy of science.

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This revised and extended edition offers a concise and illuminating treatment of major developments in the field over the last two decades, with the same accessible style which ensured the popularity of previous editions. Of particular importance is the examination of Bayesianism and the new experimentalism, as well as new chapters on the nature of scientific laws and recent trends in the realism versus anti-realism debate.

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Bonzer

‘A highly revealing and constructive way to find answers.’

Chemistry in Australia

‘A thought-provoking, challenging and at times witty introduction to the philosophy of science. Anyone with an interest in science could read this [book] with pleasure.’

F John Clendinnen

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

‘It is written clearly with a minimal use of technical terms ... it successfully introduces the reader to basic issues, and it does so in a way that captures the interest of the reader and makes the issues seem real.’

Alan Chalmers

Alan Chalmers was born in Bristol, England in 1939. He graduated in physics at the University of Bristol in 1961, and received an MSc at the University of Manchester in 1964. He taught physics and the history of science for two years before returning to full-time study at Chelsea College, University of London, where he received his PhD in history and philosophy of science in 1971. Dr Chalmers first came to Australia in 1971 as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Sydney, and is now an Associate Professor in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science there. He was recently elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.