科學(xué)究竟是什么

這本書(shū)旨在對(duì)科學(xué)性質(zhì)的現(xiàn)代觀點(diǎn)作一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單、明了和初步的介紹。當(dāng)作者教授科學(xué)哲學(xué)的時(shí)候，感到?jīng)]有一本適用的書(shū)可以推薦給初學(xué)者?？梢缘玫降年P(guān)于現(xiàn)代觀點(diǎn)的唯一資料，只有原著。許多原著對(duì)初學(xué)者來(lái)說(shuō)太難，同時(shí)無(wú)論如何，它們數(shù)量太多，要使之適合于大學(xué)生，是不易辦到的。這本書(shū)對(duì)于任何想認(rèn)真從事研究這個(gè)題目的人來(lái)說(shuō)，是不能代替原著的，但是作者希望它將提供一個(gè)有用的較易接近的起點(diǎn)。

Chalmers was elected a fellow of the Academy of Humanities in 1997. His primary research interest is the philosophy of science and he is author of the best-selling textbook What Is This Thing Called Science? which has been translated into many languages.

He has been a visiting scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. For the 2007 fall semester he was...

Chalmers was elected a fellow of the Academy of Humanities in 1997. His primary research interest is the philosophy of science and he is author of the best-selling textbook What Is This Thing Called Science? which has been translated into many languages.

He has been a visiting scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. For the 2007 fall semester he was a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Chalmers is an associate professor at the History and Philosophy of Science department of the University of Sydney.

Books:

Science and Its Fabrication, Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press, 1990, pp. 142+xii. (Translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese and Chinese.)

What Is This Thing Called Science?, 3rd revised edition, University of Queensland Press, Hackett, 1999. (Originally published 1976; second edition: 1982.)

The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone – How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms, Springer, 2009, pp. 288+xii.