Philosophy Of Chemistry Synthesis of a New Discipline /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Baird, Davis (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Scerri, Eric (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), McIntyre, Lee (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Σειρά: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 242
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Chemistry.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.

This comprehensive volume marks a new standard in scholarship in the still emerging field of the philosophy of chemistry. With selections drawn from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, philosophers, chemists, and historians of science here converge to ask some of the most fundamental questions ab...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chemistry and the Philosophy of Chemistry
• The Philosophy of Chemistry
• Chemistry and the History and Philosophy of Science
• Aristole’s Theory of Chemical Reaction and Chemical Substances
• Kant’s Legacy for the Philosophy of Chemistry
• Chemistry and Current Philosophy of Science
• The Conceptual Structure of the Sciences
• Normative and Descriptive Philosophy of Science and the Role of Chemistry
• How Classical Models of Explanation Fail to Cope with Chemistry
• Professional Ethics in Science
• Chemistry and Physics
• Is There Downward Causation in Chemistry?
• Physics in the Crucible of Chemistry
• Chemical Theory and Foundational Questions
• Some Philosophical Implications of Chemical Symmetry
• The Periodics Systems of Molecules
• A New Paradigm for Schrödinger and Kohn
• Chemistry and its Tools of Representation
• Virtual Tools
• Space in Molecular Representation; or How Pictures Represent Objects
• Visualizing Instrumental Techniques of Surface Chemistry
• Chemistry and Ontology
• Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?
• Water is Not H2O
• From Metaphysics to Metachemistry.