ISBN:
9781402032615
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 242
DDC:
540.1
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
;
Chemistry
;
Science Philosophy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Chemie
;
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Abstract:
This comprehensive volume marks a new standard in scholarship in the emerging field of the philosophy of chemistry. Philosophers, chemists, and historians of science ask some fundamental questions about the relationship between philosophy and chemistry.
Abstract:
Including selections drawn from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, philosophers, chemists, and historians of science, this work asks some of the fundamental questions about the relationship between philosophy and chemistry
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; The Philosophy of Chemistry; Aristole's Theory of Chemical Reaction and Chemical Substances; Kant's Legacy for the Philosophy of Chemistry; 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; Is There Downward Causation in Chemistry?; Physics in the Crucible of Chemistry; Some Philosophical Implications of Chemical Symmetry; The Periodics Systems of Molecules; A New Paradigm for Schrödinger and Kohn; Virtual Tools
Description / Table of Contents:
Space in Molecular Representation or How Pictures Represent Objects; Visualizing Instrumental Techniques of Surface Chemistry; Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?; Water is Not H2O; From Metaphysics to Metachemistry
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/1-4020-3261-7
URL:
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