Philosophical Chemistry

Author : Manuel DeLanda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472591845

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Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization and hybridization through the fields and subfields of chemistry. The strategy followed uses a series of chemical textbooks, separated from each other by fifty year periods (1750, 1800, 1850, and 1900), to follow the historical formation of consensus practices. The three chapters deal with one subfield of chemistry in the century in which it was developed: eighteenth-century inorganic chemistry, nineteenth-century organic chemistry, and nineteenth-century physical chemistry. This book creates a model of a scientific field capable of accommodating the variation and differentiation evident in the history of scientific practice. DeLanda proposes a model that is made of three components: a domain of phenomena, a community of practitioners, and a set of instruments and techniques connecting the community to the domain. Philosophical Chemistry will be essential reading for those engaged in emergent, radical and contemporary strands of thought in the philosophy of science and for those scholars and students who strive to practice a productive dialogue between the two disciplines.

Author : Hrvoj Vančik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030692247

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Philosophy of Chemistry by Hrvoj Vančik Pdf

This book, Philosophy of Chemistry, is dedicated to some of the general principles of philosophy of chemistry, the special branch of philosophy of science. Since the work is a collection of lectures that the Author gave at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) during the period of twenty years, the book could serve also as a university textbook in philosophy of chemistry. Philosophy of chemistry is represented through the discussion about some of the general philosophical problems such as, theory of complexity, autonomy of sciences, epistemology, falsificationism, emergence and unity of science, holism and reductionism, the problem of identity, and hierarchical structures, as well as the teleological aspects of science. The work consists from thirteen chapters where the main science-philosophical problems are represented and discussed within the historical context of the development of chemistry as a science. The book is aimed at wider academic audience interesting in the philosophy of science, and especially at university students of life sciences.

Author : Jean-Pierre Llored
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443867948

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The Philosophy of Chemistry by Jean-Pierre Llored Pdf

This volume connects chemistry and philosophy in order to face questions raised by chemistry in our present world. The idea is first to develop a kind of philosophy of chemistry which is deeply rooted in the exploration of chemical activities. We thus work in close contact with chemists (technicians, engineers, researchers, and teachers). Following this line of reasoning, the first part of the book encourages current chemists to describe their workaday practices while insisting on the importance of attending to methodological, metrological, philosophical, and epistemological questions related to their activities. It deals with sustainable chemistry, chemical metrology, nanochemistry, and biochemistry, among other crucial topics. In doing so, those chemists invite historians and philosophers to provide ideas for future developments. In a nutshell, this part is a call for forthcoming collaborations focused on instruments and methods, that is on ways of doing chemistry. The second part of the book illustrates the multifarious ways to study chemistry and even proposes new approaches to doing so. Each approach is interesting and incomplete but the emergent whole is richer than any of its components. Analytical work needs socio-historical expertise as well as many other approaches in order to keep on investigating chemistry to greater and greater depth. This heterogeneity provides a wide set of methodological perspectives not only about current chemical practices but also about the ways to explore them philosophically. Each approach is a resource to study chemistry and to reflect upon what doing philosophy of science can mean. In the last part of the volume, philosophers and chemists propose new concepts or reshape older ones in order to think about chemistry. The act of conceptualization itself is queried as well as the relationships between concepts and chemical activities. Prefaced by Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Roald Hoffmann, and by the President of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Rom Harré, this volume is a plea for the emergence of a collective cleverness and aims to foster inventiveness.

Author : Andrea Woody,Robin Findlay Hendry,Paul Needham
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780444516756

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Philosophy of Chemistry by Andrea Woody,Robin Findlay Hendry,Paul Needham Pdf

Philosophy of Chemistry investigates the foundational concepts and methods of chemistry, the science of the nature of substances and their transformations. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of chemistry ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out the central topics in the field. The 33 articles address the history of the philosophy of chemistry and the philosophical importance of some central figures in the history of chemistry; the nature of chemical substances; central chemical concepts and methods, including the chemical bond, the periodic table and reaction mechanisms; and chemistry's relationship to other disciplines such as physics, molecular biology, pharmacy and chemical engineering. This volume serves as a detailed introduction for those new to the field as well as a rich source of new insights and potential research agendas for those already engaged with the philosophy of chemistry. Provides a bridge between philosophy and current scientific findings Encourages multi-disciplinary dialogue Covers theory and applications

Author : Jaap Brakel
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9058670635

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Philosophy of Chemistry by Jaap Brakel Pdf

This book addresses themes in the newly emerging discipline of philosophy of chemistry, in particular issues in connection with discussions in general philosophy of science on natural kinds, reduction and ceteris paribus laws. The philosophical issue addressed in all chapters is the relation between, on the one hand, the manifest image (the daily practice or common-sense-life-form) and on the other the scientific image, both of which claim to be the final arbiter of "everything."With respect to chemistry, the question raised is this: Where does this branch of science fit in, with the manifest or scientific image? Most philosophers and chemists probably would reply unhesitatingly, the scientific image. The aim of this book is to raise doubts about that self-evidence. It is argued that chemistry is primarily the science of manifest substances, whereas "micro" or "submicro" scientific talk--though important, useful, and insightful--does not change what matters, namely the properties of manifest substances.These manifest substances, their properties and uses cannot be reduced to talk of molecules or solutions of the Schrödinger equation. If "submicroscopic" quantum mechanics were to be wrong, it would not affect all (or any) "microlevel" chemical knowledge of molecules. If molecular chemistry were to be wrong, it wouldn't disqualify knowledge of, say, water--not at the "macrolevel" (e.g. its viscosity at 50 C), nor at the pre- or protoscientific manifest level (e.g. ice is frozen water).

Author : David R. Koepsell,Robert Arp
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812697902

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Breaking Bad and Philosophy by David R. Koepsell,Robert Arp Pdf

Breaking Bad, hailed by Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and many others as the best of all TV dramas, tells the story of a man whose life changes because of the medical death sentence of an advanced cancer diagnosis. The show depicts his metamorphosis from inoffensive chemistry teacher to feared drug lord and remorseless killer. Driven at first by the desire to save his family from destitution, he risks losing his family altogether because of his new life of crime. In defiance of the tradition that viewers demand a TV character who never changes, Breaking Bad is all about the process of change, with each scene carrying forward the morphing of Walter White into the terrible Heisenberg. Can a person be transformed as the result of a few key life choices? Does everyone have the potential to be a ruthless criminal? How will we respond to the knowledge that we will be dead in six months? Is human life subject to laws as remorseless as chemical equations? When does injustice validate brutal retaliation? Why are drug addicts unsuitable for operating the illegal drug business? How can TV viewers remain loyal to a series where the hero becomes the villain? Does Heisenberg’s Principle of Uncertainty rule our destinies? In Breaking Bad and Philosophy, a hand-picked squad of professional thinkers investigate the crimes of Walter White, showing how this story relates to the major themes of philosophy and the major life decisions facing all of us.

Author : Eric Scerri,Lee McIntyre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401793643

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Philosophy of Chemistry by Eric Scerri,Lee McIntyre Pdf

This volume follows the successful book, which has helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, science educators as well as chemists, physicists and biologists. The introduction summarizes the way in which the field has developed in the ten years since the previous volume was conceived and introduces several new authors who did not contribute to the first edition. The editors are well placed to assemble this book, as they are the editor in chief and deputy editors of the leading academic journal in the field, Foundations of Chemistry. The philosophy of chemistry remains a somewhat neglected field, unlike the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology. Why there has been little philosophical attention to the central discipline of chemistry among the three natural sciences is a theme that is explored by several of the contributors. This volume will do a great deal to redress this imbalance. Among the themes covered is the question of reduction of chemistry to physics, the reduction of biology to chemistry, whether true chemical laws exist and causality in chemistry. In addition more general questions of the nature of organic chemistry, biochemistry and chemical synthesis are examined by specialist in these areas.

Author : Nalini Bhushan,Stuart M. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 9780195128345

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Of Minds and Molecules by Nalini Bhushan,Stuart M. Rosenfeld Pdf

Of Minds and Molecules is the first anthology devoted exclusively to work in the philosophy of chemistry. The essays, written by both chemists and philosophers, adopt distinctive philosophical perspectives on chemistry and collectively offer both a conceptualization of and a justification for this emerging field.

Author : Davis Baird,Eric Scerri,Lee McIntyre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402032560

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Philosophy of Chemistry by Davis Baird,Eric Scerri,Lee McIntyre Pdf

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.

Author : John Berkenhout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : Chemical apparatus
ISBN : OXFORD:590076188

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First Lines of the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Chemistry by John Berkenhout Pdf

Author : Eric R. Scerri,Grant Andrew Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190494599

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Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry by Eric R. Scerri,Grant Andrew Fisher Pdf

The philosophy of chemistry has emerged in recent years as a new and autonomous field within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition. With the development of this new discipline, Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher's Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry is a timely and definitive guide to all current thought in this field. This edited volume will serve to map out the distinctive features of the field and its connections to the philosophies of the natural sciences and general philosophy of science more broadly. It will be a reference for students and professional alike. Both the philosophy of chemistry and philosophies of scientific practice alike reflect the splitting of analytical and continental scholastic traditions, and some philosophers are turning for inspiration from the familiar resources of analytical philosophy to influences from the continental tradition and pragmatism. While philosophy of chemistry is practiced very much within the familiar analytical tradition, it is also capable of trail-blazing new philosophical approaches. In such a way, the seemingly disparate disciplines such as the hard sciences and philosophy become much more linked.

Author : Nalini Bhushan,Stuart Rosenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195351811

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Of Minds and Molecules by Nalini Bhushan,Stuart Rosenfeld Pdf

Of Minds and Molecules is the first anthology devoted exclusively to work in the philosophy of chemistry. The essays, written by both chemists and philosophers, adopt distinctive philosophical perspectives on chemistry and collectively offer both a conceptualization of and a justification for this emerging field.

Author : John Dalton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:57141243

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A New System of Chemical Philosophy by John Dalton Pdf

Author : Eric Scerri,Elena Ghibaudi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190933784

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What Is a Chemical Element? by Eric Scerri,Elena Ghibaudi Pdf

"This book offers a comprehensive overview of an important notion to the field of chemistry: the chemical element"--

Author : comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : OXFORD:600036561

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Elements of Chemistry, and Natural History by comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy Pdf