Alan Francis Chalmers (chalmers-a)

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Bibliography

Chalmers, Alan Francis. 1976. What is this thing called Science? St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 1985. “Methodological Individualism: An Incongruity in Popper’s Philosophy.” in Popper and the Human Sciences, edited by Gregory Currie and Alan Musgrave, pp. 73–88. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series n. 19. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 1986. “The Galileo that Feyerabend Missed: An Improved Case Against Method.” in The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method. Historical Studies, edited by John A. Schuster and Richard R. Yeo, pp. 1–32. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 4. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Chalmers, Alan Francis, ed. 1991. La fabrication de la science. Paris: La Découverte.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 1993. “Galilean Relativity and Galileo’s Relativity.” in Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics. Essays in Honour of Heinz Post, edited by Steven French and Harmke Kamminga, pp. 189–206. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 148. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 1999a. What is this thing called Science? 3rd ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 1999b. “Making Sense of the Laws of Physics.” in Causation and the Laws of Nature, edited by Howard Sankey, pp. 3–16. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 14. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2002a. “Experiment versus Mechanical Philosophy in the Work of Robert Boyle: A Reply to Anstey (2002) and Pyle (2002).” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33(1): 191–197.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2002b. “Experiment and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science XI: In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Volume One of the Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kraków, 1999, edited by Peter Gärdenfors, Jan Woleński, and Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, pp. 157–170. Synthese Library n. 315. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2005. “Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2005/entries/atomism-modern/.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2006. “Why Alan Musgrave should Become an Essentialist.” in Rationality and Reality. Conversations with Alan Musgrave, edited by Colin Cheyne and John Worrall, pp. 165–182. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 20. Dordrecht: Springer.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2009. The Scientist’s Atom and the Philosopher’s Stone. How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 279. Dordrecht: Springer.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2010a. “Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2010/entries/atomism-modern/.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2010b. “Boyle and the Origins of Modern Chemistry: Newman Tried in the Fire.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 41(1): 1–10.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2011. “Understanding Science through Its History: A Response to Newman.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42(1): 150–153.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2012a. “Robert Boyle (1627–1691).” in Philosophy of Chemistry, edited by Andrea I. Woody, Robin Findlay Hendry, and Paul Needham, pp. 47–53. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 6. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2012b. “Intermediate Causes and Explanations: The Key to Understanding the Scientific Revolution.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 43(4): 551–562.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2014a. “Level of Realism. Feel, Smell, and Taste in Virtual Environments.” in The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality, edited by Mark Grimshaw, pp. 602–614. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2014b. “Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/atomism-modern/.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2015. “Qualitative Novelty in Seventeenth-Century Science: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Pascal.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 51: 1–10.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2016a. “Viewing past Science from the Point of View of Present Science, Thereby Illuminating Both: Philosophy versus Experiment in the Work of Robert Boyle.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 55: 27–35.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2016b. “Robert Boyle’s Corpuscular Chemistry: Atomism before its Time.” in Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry, edited by Eric R. Scerri and Grant Fisher, pp. 15–36. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2017a. One Hundred Years of Pressure. Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton. Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology n. 51. Dordrecht: Springer.
Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2017b. “Theorizing the Distinction Between Solids, Liquids and Air: Pressure from Stevin to Pascal.” in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. Problems, Perspectives, and Case Studies, edited by Friedrich Stadler, pp. 55–67. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook n. 20. Berlin: Springer.
Rasmussen, Nicolas and Chalmers, Alan Francis. 2001. “The Role of Theory in the Use of Instruments; or, How Much Do We Need to Know about Electrons to Do Science with an Electron Microscope?” in Histories of the Electron. The Birth of Microphysics, edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick, pp. 467–501. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Further References

Anstey, Peter R. 2002. “Robert Boyle and the Heuristic Value of Mechanism [on Chalmers (2002a)].” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33(1): 157–170.
Pyle, Andrew. 2002. “Boyle on Science and the Mechanical Philosophy: A Reply to Chalmers (2002a).” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33(1): 171–186.