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Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry.
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, liter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Trying to Understand, Making Bonds; Part 1 CHEMICAL REASONING AND EXPLANATION; 2. Why Buy That Theory?; 3. What Might Philosophy of Science Look Like If Chemists Built It?; 4. Unstable; 5. Nearly Circular Reasoning; 6. Ockham's Razor and Chemistry; 7. Qualitative Thinking in the Age of Modern Computational Chemistry, or What Lionel Salem Knows; 8. Narrative; 9. Learning from Molecules in Distress; 10. Why Think Up New Molecules?; 11. Protean; 12. How Should Chemists Think?; Part 2 WRITING AND COMMUNICATING IN CHEMISTRY.
- 13. Under the Surface of the Chemical Article14. Representation in Chemistry; 15. The Say of Things; 16. How Symbolic and Iconic Languages Bridge the Two Worlds of the Chemist: A Case Study from Contemporary Bioorganic Chemistry; 17. How Nice to Be an Outsider; 18. The Metaphor, Unchained; Part 3 ART AND SCIENCE; 19. Art in Science?; 20. Science and Crafts; 21. Molecular Beauty; Part 4 CHEMICAL EDUCATION; 22. Teach to Search; 23. Some Heretical Thoughts on What Our Students Are Telling Us; 24. Specific Learning and Teaching Strategies That Work, and Why They Do So; Part 5 ETHICS IN SCIENCE.
- 25. Mind the Shade26. Science and Ethics: A Marriage of Necessity and Choice for This Millennium; 27. Honesty to the Singular Object; 28. The Material and Spiritual Rationales Are Inseparable; Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.