Alan Chalmers

Dr. Alan Chalmers has been a Visiting Scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. He attained a B.Sc. in physics at the University of Bristol, and his M.Sc. in physics from the University of Manchester. His Ph.D. on the electromagnetic theory of J.C. Maxwell was granted by the University of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities in 1997. His primary research interest is the Philosophy of Science. He is author of the best-selling textbook What Is This Thing Called Science? which has been translated into many languages. [1]

Books By Alan Chalmers

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?, 3rd revised edition, University of Queensland Press, Open University press, Hackett,1999 Science and Its Fabrication, Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press, 1990, pp. 142+xii. (Translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Korean and Chinese )

External Links

• Review of What is this Thing Called Science?