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Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry

Author : Eric R. Scerri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019049459X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry written by Eric R. Scerri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Philosophy of Chemistry

Author : Eric Scerri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401793646
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Chemistry written by Eric Scerri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Of Minds and Molecules

Author : Nalini Bhushan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195128346
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Of Minds and Molecules written by Nalini Bhushan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Philosophy of Chemistry

Author : Davis Baird
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402032561
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Chemistry written by Davis Baird and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry

Author : Roald Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199755906
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry written by Roald Hoffmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known; this Nobel laureate has published more than 500 articles and two books. As an "applied theoretical chemist," he has made significant contributions to our understanding of chemical bonding and reactivity, and taught two generations of chemists how to use molecular orbitals for real chemistry. Less well known, however, are Hoffmann's important and insightful contributions to the areas of scholarship surrounding chemistry. Over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Roald Hoffmann has thought and written copiously about the broader context of chemistry and its relationship to the arts and poetry. This book contains Hoffmann's essays and is organized around several major themes: chemical reasoning and explanation, writing and communicating in science, ethics, art and science, and chemical education. A few are unpublished lectures that are valuable additions to the volume. The editors have the full cooperation of Roald Hoffmann in this project. Most of the published work will be reprinted verbatim, but a few of the essays will be revised to eliminate redundancy. The unpublished lectures will also be edited since they were originally intended to be delivered orally at specific occasions. The editors will provide an introduction to the book, and some introductory material for each section. In introducing the material, they will highlight the intrinsic importance and interest of the ideas, as well as the places where Hoffmann's thought makes novel contributions to cognate areas"--

Philosophy of Chemistry

Author : Jaap Brakel
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058670632
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Chemistry written by Jaap Brakel and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Mixture and Chemical Combination

Author : Pierre Duhem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402002328
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Mixture and Chemical Combination written by Pierre Duhem and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to lecturing in physics, Duhem began to publish articles on philosophical and historical topics related to his scientific interests in the late 19th century, many of which appeared in the Catholic journal Revue des questions scientifiques. The present volume focuses on chemistry, and includes the book, Le mixte et la combinaison chimique (1902), as well as several related articles from Revue des questions scientifiques and other sources, appearing here in English translation for the first time. Translated by Paul Needham (U. of Stockholm). For Duhem scholars, philosophers of science and chemists with an interest in philosophy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

What Is a Chemical Element?

Author : Eric Scerri
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019093378X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book What Is a Chemical Element? written by Eric Scerri and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a comprehensive overview of an important notion to the field of chemistry: the chemical element"--

A New System of Chemical Philosophy

Author : John Dalton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book A New System of Chemical Philosophy written by John Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breaking Bad and Philosophy

Author : David R. Koepsell
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812697901
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Bad and Philosophy written by David R. Koepsell and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Essays, 1891-1929

Author : Frantisěk Wald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788090393165
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Essays, 1891-1929 written by Frantisěk Wald and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Philosophical Essay on Molecular Structure

Author : Ochiai Hirofumi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527564312
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical Essay on Molecular Structure written by Ochiai Hirofumi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular structure is something taken for granted by chemists. Together with elements, atoms and bonds, it is the basis for talking about organic chemistry. Given molecular structure, chemists are engaged in designing molecules and performing chemical syntheses of a variety of compounds. The structure-activity relationship in drug research is an illuminating example. However, of course, nobody has ever seen molecular structure. Molecules are too small to see. Moreover, molecular structure cannot be derived a priori from fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. This book explores why this is the case. Is what chemists take to be molecular structure real? This book addresses head-on the ontological, as well as epistemological, grounds of one of the most fundamental concepts of chemistry. Its arguments are grounded on the learning of the history of chemistry, philosophy (Kant in particular), quantum mechanics and organic chemistry. The book will serve as a good introduction to the philosophy of chemistry.

Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry

Author : Eric Scerri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190494603
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry written by Eric Scerri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry

Author : Jeffrey Kovac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912580
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry written by Jeffrey Kovac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Hoffmann has thought and written extensively about a wide variety of other topics, such as chemistry's relationship to philosophy, literature, and the arts, including the nature of chemical reasoning, the role of symbolism and writing in science, and the relationship between art and craft and science. In Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry, Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg bring together twenty-eight of Hoffmann's most important essays. Gathered here are Hoffmann's most philosophically significant and interesting essays and lectures, many of which are not widely accessible. In essays such as "Why Buy That Theory," "Nearly Circular Reasoning," "How Should Chemists Think," "The Metaphor, Unchained," "Art in Science," and "Molecular Beauty," we find the mature reflections of one of America's leading scientists. Organized under the general headings of Chemical Reasoning and Explanation, Writing and Communicating, Art and Science, Education, and Ethics, these stimulating essays provide invaluable insight into the teaching and practice of science.

A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science

Author : Eric Scerri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190233001
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science written by Eric Scerri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified approach in which science is seen as a living and evolving single organism. Instead of scientific revolutions featuring exceptionally gifted individuals, Scerri argues that the "little people" contribute as much as the "heroes" of science. To do this he examines seven case studies of virtually unknown chemists and physicists in the early 20th century quest to discover the structure of the atom. They include the amateur scientist Anton van den Broek who pioneered the notion of atomic number as well as Edmund Stoner a then physics graduate student who provided the seed for Pauli's Exclusion Principle. Another case is the physicist John Nicholson who is virtually unknown and yet was the first to propose the notion of quantization of angular momentum that was soon put to good use by Niels Bohr. Instead of focusing on the logic and rationality of science, Scerri elevates the role of trial and error and multiple discovery and moves beyond the notion of scientific developments being right or wrong. While criticizing Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific revolutions he agrees with Kuhn that science is not drawn towards an external truth but is rather driven from within. The book will enliven the long-standing debate on the nature of science, which has increasingly shied away from the big question of "what is science?"

Explaining Explanation

Author : Lee C. McIntyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780761858690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Explanation written by Lee C. McIntyre and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of Lee McIntyre's philosophical essays from over the last twenty years. Explaining Explanation focuses on the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of chemistry, but also covers more general problems such as underdetermination, explanatory exclusion, the accommodation-prediction debate, and laws in biological science.

Of Minds and Molecules

Author : Nalini Bhushan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195351819
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Of Minds and Molecules written by Nalini Bhushan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.