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Essays philosophy of chemistry

By Fisher , Eric R , Grant Andrew;Scerri

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780190494599, 019049459X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9493203 bytes)
Pages
\421
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Chemistry--Philosophy;Chemistry -- Philosophy

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History and philosophy of chemistry1. Alan Chalmers. Robert Boyle's Corpuscular Chemistry: Atomism before its Time.2. Nick Best. What was revolutionary about the Chemical Revolution?3. Kostas Gavroglu & Ana Simoes. Philosophical issues in (sub)-disciplinary contexts. The case of quantum chemistryReduction and explanation4. Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino & Jean-Pierre Noel Llored. Reality Without Reification: Philosophy of Chemistry's Contribution to Philosophy of Mind5. Lee McIntyre. Who's Afraid of Supervenient Laws?6. Eric Scerri. The changing views of a philosopher of chemistry on the question of reduction. 7. Noretta Koertge. Contingencies in Chemical Explanation8. Dick Pagni. Reaction mechanisms.Metaphysical issues9. Rom Harre. Causality in Chemistry: Regularities and Agencies.10. Joe Earley. How Properties Hold Together in Substances.11. Hasok Chang. Scientific Realism and Chemistry.12. Robin Hendry. Natural Kinds in Chemistry.Theory and practice13. Hinne Hettema. Chemistry and the Theoretician's dilemma.14. Grant Fisher. Divergence, Diagnostics, and a Dichotomy of Methods.15. Guillermo Restrepo. Mathematical Chemistry, a New Discipline. 16. Rein Vihalemm. The Dual Character of Chemistry.

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