Philosophy of chemistry : synthesis of a new discipline /
"This comprehensive volume marks a new standard in scholarship in the still emerging field of the philosophy of chemistry. With selections drawn from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, philosophers, chemists, and historians of science here converge to ask some of the most fundamental questi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2006.
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
v. 242. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the invisibility of chemistry / Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre
- Philosophy of chemistry : from infancy toward maturity / Joachim Schummer
- Aristotle's theory of chemical reaction and chemical substances / Paul Needham
- Kant's legacy for the philosophy of chemistry / J. van Brakel, K.U. Leuven
- Conceptual structure of the sciences : reemergence of the human dimension / Otto Theodor Benfey
- Normative and descriptive philosophy of science and the role of chemistry / Eric R. Scerri
- How classical models of explanation fail to cope with chemistry-the case of molecular modeling / Johannes Hunger
- Professional ethics in science / Jeffrey Kovac
- Is there downward causation in chemistry? / Robin Findley Hendry
- Physics in the crucible of chemistry : ontological boundaries and epistemological blueprints / G.K. Vemulapalli
- Some philosophical implications of chemical symmetry / Joseph E. Earley
- Periodic systems of molecules : presuppositions, problems and prospects / Ray Hefferlin
- New paradigm for Schrödinger and Kohn / Jack R. Woodyard
- Virtual tools : the epistemological and social issues of computer-aided chemical process design / Ann Johnson
- Space in molecular representation ; or how pictures represent objects / S.H. Vollmer
- Visualizing instrumental techniques of surface chemistry / Daniel Rothbart and John Schreifels
- Are chemical kinds natural kinds? / Nalini Bhushan
- Water is not H₂O / Michael Weisberg
- From metaphysics to metachemistry / Alfred Nordmann.