Essays in the philosophy of chemistry /edited by Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher.
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover ; Half Title Page ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedications ; Contents; Contributors; Second Half Title Page ; Introduction ; PART ONE History and Philosophy of Chemistry ; CHAPTER 1: Alan Chalmers. Robert Boyle's Corpuscular Chemistry: Atomism before its Time ; CHAPTER 2: Nicholas W. Best. What Was Revolutionary about the Chemical Revolution? ; CHAPTER 3: Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simões. Philosophical Issues in (Sub)Disciplinary Contexts. The Case of Quantum Chemistry; PART TWO Reduction and Explanation CHAPTER 4: Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino and Jean-Pierre Noël Llored. Reality Without Reification: Philosophy of Chemistry's Contribution to Philosophy of MindCHAPTER 5: Lee McIntyre. Who's Afraid of Supervenient Laws?; CHAPTER 6: Eric R. Scerri. The Changing Views of a Philosopher of Chemistry on the Question of Reduction ; CHAPTER 7: Noretta Koertge. Contingencies in Chemical Explanation; CHAPTER 8: Richard M. Pagni. Reaction Mechanisms; PART THREE Metaphysical Issues ; CHAPTER 9 : Rom Harré. Causality in Chemistry: Regularities and Agencies CHAPTER 10: Joseph E. Earley, Sr. How Properties Hold Together in SubstancesCHAPTER 11: Hasok Chang. Scientific Realism and Chemistry ; CHAPTER 12: Robin Findlay Hendry. Natural Kinds in Chemistry; PART FOUR Theory and Practice ; CHAPTER 13: Hinne Hettema. Chemistry and "The Theoretician's Dilemma"; CHAPTER 14:Grant Fisher. Divergence, Diagnostics, and a Dichotomy of Methods ; CHAPTER 15: Guillermo Restrepo. Mathematical Chemistry, a New Discipline; CHAPTER 16: Rein Vihalemm. Science, f-Science, and the Dual Character of Chemistry ; Index
The philosophy of chemistry has emerged in recent years as a new and autonomous field within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition. With the development of this new discipline, Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher's ""The Philosophy of Chemistry"" is a timely and definitive guide to all current thought in this field. One of the themes of this collection is how philosophy of chemistry can make a contributions to problems of philosophy more generally, such as how chemistry and quantum chemistry contribute to the philosophy of the mind.