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Philosophy of Chemistry Growth of a New Discipline /

This volume follows the earlier successful book in the same series, which helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, and science educators, as well as chemists, physicists and biologists. The introduction summarizes the way in which th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Scerri, Eric (Editor ), McIntyre, Lee (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 306
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction; Eric Scerri and Lee McIntyre
  • Chapter 2: Reduction for a Dappled World: Connecting Chemical and Physical Theories; Hinne Hettema
  • Chapter 3: The Ontological Autonomy of the Chemical World: Facing the Criticisms; Olimpia Lombardi
  • Chapter 4: A Novel Approach to Emergence in Chemistry; Alexandru Manafu
  • Chapter 5: The Methodological Pluralism of Chemistry and Its Philosophical Implications; Joachim Schummer
  • Chapter 6: Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Chemistry; Joseph Earley
  • Chapter 7: One Substance Or More? Paul Needham
  • Chapter 8: Mereological Principles and Chemical Affordances; Rom Harre
  • Chapter 9: Metaphor in Chemistry: An Examination of Chemical Metaphor; Farzad Mahootian
  • Chapter 10: From Corpuscles To Elements: Chemical Ontologies From van Helmont To Lavoisier; Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
  • Chapter 11: Mendeleev and the Rare-Earth Crisis; Pieter Thyssen and Koen Binnemans
  • Chapter 12: Radicals, Reactions, Realism; Klaus Ruthenberg
  • Chapter 13: Orbital Symmetry, Idealization, and the Kairetic Account of Scientific Explanation; Grant Fisher
  • Chapter 14: Investigating the Meaning of the Ceteris Paribus Clause in Chemistry; Jean-Pierre Llored.