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 questions ab...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,
242 |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3261-7 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chemistry and the Philosophy of Chemistry
- The Philosophy of Chemistry
- Chemistry and the History and Philosophy of Science
- Aristole’s Theory of Chemical Reaction and Chemical Substances
- Kant’s Legacy for the Philosophy of Chemistry
- Chemistry and Current Philosophy of Science
- The Conceptual Structure of the Sciences
- Normative and Descriptive Philosophy of Science and the Role of Chemistry
- How Classical Models of Explanation Fail to Cope with Chemistry
- Professional Ethics in Science
- Chemistry and Physics
- Is There Downward Causation in Chemistry?
- Physics in the Crucible of Chemistry
- Chemical Theory and Foundational Questions
- Some Philosophical Implications of Chemical Symmetry
- The Periodics Systems of Molecules
- A New Paradigm for Schrödinger and Kohn
- Chemistry and its Tools of Representation
- Virtual Tools
- Space in Molecular Representation; or How Pictures Represent Objects
- Visualizing Instrumental Techniques of Surface Chemistry
- Chemistry and Ontology
- Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?
- Water is Not H2O
- From Metaphysics to Metachemistry.