Co-published with the University of Queensland Press. HPC holds rights in North America and U. S. Dependencies. Since its first publication in 1976, Alan Chalme

Every ten years, Alan Chalmers draws on his experience as a teacher and researcher to improve and update the text that strives to answer the philosophical quest

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and

While acknowledging its theory-ladeness, Chalmers (history and philosophy, U. of Sydney) defends the objectivity of scientific knowledge against those critics f

Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of