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Alan Chalmer's Life
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First Major Publication as a Best-Selling Textbook
Alan Chalmers, born 1939 (still alive), puts forth his best seller ever, 'What Is This Thing Called Science?'. Advancing his ideas in respects to how methods of science are applied, this book offers great ideas in respects to philosophy of science. Describing outdatted terms and shortcomings, this book gives modern and practical appications to the young-minded scientist. Chalmers, A. (1976). What Is This Thing Called Science? (1st ed.). Hackett Publishing. -
Second Published Scientific Book
Alan Chalmers, born 1939 (still alive), writes his second book Science and Its Fabrication. Still available today online, this book dives into how scientific knowledge can be distinct from "witchcraft or voodoo". Alan Chalmers offers readers techniques of philosophy of science that are easy to comprehend for general scientific methods. Science and Its Fabrication. (2011, August 24). Retrieved June 02, 2020, from https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/science-and-its-fabrication -
Academy of Humanities
Alan Chalmers, born 1939 (still alive), shortly after his second published book and while serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney for six years, Chalmers was elected into the Academy of Humanities, awarding him the Centenary Medal by the government of Australia, titled 'Services to the Humanities in the area of History and Philosophy of Science'. An example of his teachings; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RTbuXTekQU -
The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone
Alan Chalmers, born 1939 (still alive), publishes his last well-recognized book called 'The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone'. Chalmers' book reflects on the book's morals as, "Speculatons about the fundamental structure of matter from Democoritus to the seventeeth-century mechanical philosophers and beyond are construed as categorically distinct from atomic theories amenable to experimental investigation and support and as contrib
