McIntyre, Lee C. (Editor)
Scerri, Eric R. (Editor)
Springer
Publication date: 2015
Language: English
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.
...MoreEssay Review Micah Newman (2016) Philosophy of Chemistry: Unkempt Jungle and Fertile Ground. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 473-477).
Review David Knight (2016) Review of "Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 82-83).
Chapter Olimpia Lombardi (2015) The Ontological Autonomy of the Chemical World: Facing the Criticisms. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 23-38).
Chapter Paul Needham (2015) One Substance or More?. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 91-105).
Chapter Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino (2015) From Corpuscles to Elements: Chemical Ontologies from Van Helmont to Lavoisier. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 141-154).
Chapter Koen Binnemans; Pieter Thyssen (2015) Mendeleev and the Rare-Earth Crisis. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 155-182).
Chapter Joseph E. Earley (2015) Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Chemistry. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 73-89).
Chapter Hinne Hettema (2015) Reduction for a Dappled World: Connecting Chemical and Physical Theories. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 5-22).
Chapter Jean-Pierre Noël Llored (2015) Investigating the Meaning of the Ceteris Paribus Clause in Chemistry. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 219-233).
Chapter Rom Harré (2015) Mereological Principles and Chemical Affordances. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 107-119).
Chapter Grant Fisher (2015) Orbital Symmetry, Idealization, and the Kairetic Account of Scientific Explanation. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 201-218).
Chapter Alexandru Manafu (2015) A Novel Approach to Emergence in Chemistry. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 39-55).
Chapter Joachim Schummer (2015) The Methodological Pluralism of Chemistry and Its Philosophical Implications. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 57-72).
Chapter Klaus Ruthenberg (2015) Radicals, Reactions, Realism. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 183-199).
Chapter Farzad Mahootian (2015) Metaphor in Chemistry: An Examination of Chemical Metaphor. In: Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (pp. 121-139).
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