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The paper examines critically some recently published views by Ramsey on the contrast between ab initio and parametrized theories. I argue that, all things being equal, ab initio calculations are inde...
Two articles on the reduction of chemistry are examined. The first, by McLaughlin, claims that chemistry is reduced to physics and that there is no evidence for emergence or for downward causation bet...
Philosophers frequently cite Dalton?s chemical atomism, and its 19th century developments, as a prime example of inference to the best explanation. This was a controversial issue in its time. But the ...
Gestalt Switch in Molecular Image Perception: The Aesthetic Origin of Molecular Nanotechnology in Supramolecular Chemistry
Aesthetics of science molecular representations
2008/4/14
According to ‘standard histories’ of nanotechnology, the colorful pictures of atoms produced by scanning probe microscopists since the 1980s essentially inspired visions of molecular nanotechnology. I...
It is often assumed that chemistry was a typical positivistic science as long as chemists used atomic and molecular models as mere fictions and denied any concern with their real existence. Even when ...
Chemistry and Reduction
Chemistry Reduction
2008/4/7
Internationaler Workshop,15.-17. Juni 1995 in Konstanz. Die Herausgabe einer englisch-sprachigen Publikation der Beiträge ist von Martin Eisvogel geplant.
An der Universität Konstanz fan...
Challenging Standard Distinctions between Science and Technology: The Case of Preparative Chemistry
preparative chemistry science and technology
2008/4/7
Part I presents a quantitative-empirical outline of chemistry, esp. preparative chemistry, concerning its dominant role in today's science, its dynamics, and its methods and aims. Emphasis is laid on ...
Symmetry and Complexity-Fundamental Concepts of Research in Chemistry
molecular structure symmetry symmetry breaking
2008/4/7
Molecules have more or less symmetric and complex structures which can be defined in the mathematical framework of topology, group theory, dynamical systems theory, and quantum mechanics. But symmetry...
Ockham's Razor and Chemistry
Ockham's Razor reaction mechanism principle of least action principle of least motion
2008/4/7
We begin by presenting William of Ockham's various formulations of his principle of parsimony, Ockham's Razor. We then define a reaction mechanism and tell a personal story of how Ockham's Razor enter...
HYLE - Bibliographic Section“Philosophy of Chemistry”Recent Additions（4）
Philosophy of Chemistry Recent Additions
2008/4/7
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Bensaude-Vincent, B.: 1998, Eloge du mixte. Matériaux nouveaux et philosophie ancienne, Hachette, Paris.
Burbidge, J. W.: 1996, Real Process: How Logic and Chemistry Combine in ...
HYLE - Bibliographic Section“Philosophy of Chemistry”Recent Additions（3）
Philosophy of Chemistry Recent Additions
2008/4/7
Bilsker, R.: 1998, 'Ethnology of a Nobel Prize. Review of: P. Rabinow: Making PCR. A Story of Biotechnology', HYLE - International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 4, no. 2, 167-169.
Debus, A.G...
Second ISPC Conference on the Philosophy of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K., August 3-7, 1998
Second ISPC Conference the Philosophy of Chemistry
2008/4/7
Which other place could have been more suitable for the Second ISPC Conference on the Philosophy of Chemistry than Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge, United Kingdom? There are only few doubts that Si...
The Chemical Core of Chemistry I:A Conceptual Approach
chemical properties logical structure of chemical knowledge pure substances
2008/4/7
Given the rich diversity of research fields usually ascribed to chemistry in a broad sense, the present paper tries to dig our characteristic parts of chemistry that can be conceptually distinguished ...
HYLE - Bibliographic Section“Philosophy of Chemistry”Recent Additions（2）
Philosophy of Chemistry Recent Additions
2008/4/7
Abbot, B.: 1997, ‘A Note on the Nature of ‘Water’’, Mind, 106, 311-319.
Abbot, B.: 1999, ‘Water=H2O’, Mind, 108, 145-148.
Arabatzis, T.: 1998, ‘How the Electrons Spend their Leisure Time: Philos...
Developmental Aspects of Contemporary Chemistry Some Philosophical Reflections
development of contemporary chemistry complexity and inexhaustibility of matter
2008/4/7
The development of contemporary chemistry is surveyed, in an attempt at grasping philosophical consequences: first, chemical research has revealed a potentially endless diversity of matter, and an aby...