Alan Chalmers
{{Short description|British-Australian philosopher of science (born 1939)}}
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- University of Manchester (MSc)
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Alan Francis Chalmers {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|tʃ|æ|l|m|ər|z}}; born 1939) is a British-Australian philosopher of science and associate professor at the University of Sydney.[http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/People/visiting_fellows/vf_2003-04/chalmers.htm Alan Chalmers Website at the University of Sydney]
Education
Chalmers was born in Bristol, England in 1939, and was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at the University of Bristol in 1961, and his Master of Science in physics from the University of Manchester in 1964. His PhD on the electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} was awarded by the University of London in 1971.
Career
Chalmers went to Australia as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971. He was a member of the Department of General Philosophy from 1972 to 1986, and from 1986 to 1999 was the head of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney,[http://sydney.edu.au/hps History & Philosophy of Science - The University of Sydney] where he remains an honorary associate professor.[http://sydney.edu.au/science/hps/staff/associates/alan_chalmers.shtml Associate Professor Alan Chalmers (History & Philosophy of Science - The University of Sydney)] Since 1999 Chalmers has been a visiting scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department.[https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/fellows/chalmers-alan/ Alan Chalmers, (BSc Bristol, MSc Manchester, PhD London)]
Chalmers was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1997.{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Alan Chalmers |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=96 |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}} He was awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian government for ‘Services to the Humanities in the area of History and Philosophy of Science’. From 1999 to 2010, Alan Chalmers became a visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Flinders University, and was also a visiting fellow in the Center of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh from 2003 to 2004.[http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/People/visiting_fellows/vf_2003-04/chalmers.htm Alan Chalmers Website at the University of Pittsburgh]
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.
Publications
- Science and Its FabricationOpen 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.)[http://www.the-rathouse.com/shortreviews/WhatisThisThingCalledScience.html Review of What is this Thing Called Science?]
- The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone – How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of AtomsSpringer, 2009, pp. 288+xii.
- One Hundred Years of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to NewtonSpringer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 197+ix.
References
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