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The philosophy of chemistry : practices, methodologies, and concepts /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; preface
- roald hoffmann; preface
- rom harré; introduction; exploring chemical practices
- part i; the new challenges of current chemical practices; life cycle assessment and ecodesign; the precautionary principle and chemical risks; the limits of modern chemical analysis; interdisciplinary issues in nanoscale research; chemistry of the stratosphere; current relations between chemistry and biology; chemistry and interfaces; conclusion; methodologies
- part ii; historical approaches; philosophy of chemistry; the chemical bond.
- The relevance of boyle's chemical philosophy for contemporary philosophy of chemistrydiderot, philosopher of chemistry, from the enlightenment to contemporary science; social dynamics of science in the making; agricultural chemistry, agriculture andwhat will happen to the world; techno-scientific approaches; some remarks on the origin, scope and evolution of the notion of "technoscience"; chemistry as a technoscience?; materiality and abstraction inmodern chemistry; practical approaches; what is a scientific concept; from chemical practices to a relational philosophy of chemistry.
- Chemical analysis as dematerializationapragmatic approach to the atomic model in chemistry; the tao of chemistry; complementary chemistry; transcendental approaches; akantian perspective for the philosophy of chemistry; pragmatically naturalized transcendental philosophy of science and philosophy of chemistry; analytical approaches; three metaphysical issues in chemistry; mereological structure in chemical substances and their transformations; relations between levels from a chemical perspective; conclusion; concepts
- part iii; affordances and hinges.
- Three concepts of chemical closure and their epistemological significancean invitation to chemical process philosophy; about the chemical experiment; sustainable chemistry; concepts of emergence in chemistry; downward causation without foundations; the significance of structure; metachemistry; global conclusion; contributors.