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.
否定实证主义(归纳逻辑)及否证主义的论证很精彩。库恩和拉卡托斯的理论,在我看来就像是以太,毫无用处,完全可以用奥卡姆剃刀给他刮的干干净净(什么都想说明,而又什么也讲不清)。无政府主义我很喜欢,但是作者有过度演绎无政府主义,甚至有些扭曲该理论的嫌疑(有太多矛...
评分理论概论写得好其实很难,需要作者对学科内有史以来各类观点的深入了解和客观评估,加上作者自身的理论体系,为此教材类书的独创性增色不少,避免了泛泛之谈。Chalmers从1976年编写第一版科学哲学教材开始,至1998已更新到第三版。在科学学科内部日益走向专家化细分化的大环境...
评分应该说社科院哲学所邱仁宗先生是科学哲学界的老前辈了。不过,商务印书馆2007年出版、鲁旭东翻译的该书的另一中译本不论是对原文的理解上还是文字的通顺、易读上都比邱译要好。
评分如果我告诉你,自由落体定理按照一般的想法,在逻辑上正确的可能性是零,你会怎么想? 普遍的观点是:因为见到任何东西都在下落时都具有几乎相同的运动性质,牛顿通过实验排除其他干扰因素(比如空气阻力等等),归纳出自由落体定律,并进一步算出自由落体常数,也就是g=9.8 N...
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有