Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New DisciplineDavis Baird, Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre Springer Science & Business Media, 1 sept. 2011 - 362 pages The Invisibility of Chemistry DAVIS BAIRD South Carolina Honors College, University of South Carolina ERIC SCERRI Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles LEE MCINTYRE Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University BUTWHATAREALLTHOSECHEMISTSDOING? Recently, one of us (Davis Baird) attended a meeting of historians of science and technology spanning all of the natural sciences and engineering and all (western) periods, ancient through contemporary. In the discussion of a paper on state-of-t- art history of modern (18th century forward) chemistry, a member of the audience made the claim that there was very little left to do in contemporary chemistry and that chemistry departments in his country were having trouble attracting graduate students. Baird found this perspective on contemporary chemistry both remarkable andimplausible,andsaidasmuch. AttheUniversityofSouthCarolina(USC)—where he teaches—chemistry enrolls, and graduates, ?ve times as many graduate students as physics. In this, USC is not unique. The discipline of chemistry is, in fact, enormous and enormously productive. Joachim Schummer in this volume (Chapter 2) makes the point persuasively and concisely with data on the number of publications in various ?elds. With a grand total just shy of 900,000 papers indexed in chemical abstracts for the year 2000, chemistry is larger than all of the other natural sciences combined. |
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION The Invisibility of Chemistry | 3 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY From Infancy Toward Maturity | 19 |
CHEMISTRY AND THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | 41 |
ARISTOTLES THEORY OF CHEMICAL REACTION AND CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES | 43 |
KANTS LEGACY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY | 69 |
CHEMISTRY AND CURRENT PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | 93 |
THE CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE OF THE SCIENCES Reemergence of the Human Dimension | 95 |
NORMATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND THE ROLE OF CHEMISTRY | 119 |
CHEMICAL THEORY AND FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS | 205 |
SOME PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CHEMICAL SYMMETRY | 207 |
THE PERIODIC SYSTEMS OF MOLECULES Presuppositions Problems and Prospects | 221 |
A NEW PARADIGM FOR SCHRODINGER AND KOHN | 245 |
CHEMISTRY AND ITS TOOLS OF REPRESENTATION | 271 |
VIRTUAL TOOLS The Epistemological and Social Issues of ComputerAided Chemical Process Design | 273 |
SPACE IN MOLECULAR REPRESENTATION OR HOW PICTURES REPRESENT OBJECTS | 293 |
VISUALIZING INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUES OF SURFACE CHEMISTRY | 309 |
HOW CLASSICAL MODELS OF EXPLANATION FAIL TO COPE WITH CHEMISTRY The Case of Molecular Modeling | 129 |
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN SCIENCE | 157 |
CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS | 171 |
IS THERE DOWNWARD CAUSATION IN CHEMISTRY? | 173 |
PHYSICS IN THE CRUCIBLE OF CHEMISTRY Ontological Boundaries and Epistemological Blueprints | 191 |
CHEMISTRY AND ONTOLOGY | 325 |
ARE CHEMICAL KINDS NATURAL KINDS? | 327 |
WATER IS NOT H20 | 337 |
FROM METAPHYSICS TO METACHEMISTRY | 347 |
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