The Autonomy Of Chemistry
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The Autonomy Of Chemistry
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Author : Peter Janich
language : de
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Release Date : 1998
The Autonomy Of Chemistry written by Peter Janich and has been published by Königshausen & Neumann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Chemistry categories.
Philosophy Of Chemistry
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Author : Eric Scerri
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Philosophy Of Chemistry written by Eric Scerri and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Science categories.
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.
Chemical Explanation
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Author : Joseph E. Earley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Chemical Explanation written by Joseph E. Earley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Science categories.
Over many centuries, chemists (and their alchemical predecessors) evolved a sophisticated array of concepts and methods that yield reliable understanding when applied to systems of complexity intermediate between those generally considered by physicists, at one extreme, and biologists, at the other. Chemical problems can be chosen so that quantitative modelling can be used fruitfully, while also displaying some of the intriguing features typical of more complex cases. Papers in this volume address relations between macroscopic and microscopic descripion; essential roles of visualization and representation in chemical understanding; historical questions involving chemical concepts, impacts of chemical ideas on wider cultural concerns; and relationships between contemporary chemistry and other sciences. The authors demonstrate, assert or tacitly assume that chemical explanation is functionally autonomous. This volume should be of interest not only to professional chmists and philosophers, but also to workers in medicine, psychology and other fields in which relationships between explanations based on diverse levels of description and investigation are important.
Philosophy Of Chemistry
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Author : Davis Baird
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Philosophy Of Chemistry written by Davis Baird and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Science categories.
This comprehensive volume marks a new standard in scholarship in the emerging field of the philosophy of chemistry. Philosophers, chemists, and historians of science ask some fundamental questions about the relationship between philosophy and chemistry.
The Philosophy Of Chemistry
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Author : Patrick Kimuyu
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-11-30
The Philosophy Of Chemistry written by Patrick Kimuyu and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with Science categories.
Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Chemistry - General, grade: 2, Egerton University, language: English, abstract: This paper discuses the philosophy of chemistry. Philosophy of chemistry is a sub-branch of the philosophy of science. It is a new field that was hived from the traditional philosophy of science. It has acquired autonomy from the philosophy of physics under which it was regarded as a part. Its late evolution was due the assumption that most philosophers and scientists made in regard to the relationship between physics and chemistry. The assumption was that the chemistry can be reduced to physics. Most scholars in the philosophy of science argued that physics, under the principle of quantum mechanics, is the science that describes reality at its best, whereas chemistry, as the phenomenological science describe phenomenon as they are seen by human beings.
Essays In The Philosophy Of Chemistry
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Author : Eric R. Scerri
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Essays In The Philosophy Of Chemistry written by Eric R. Scerri and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
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 "Essays in 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.
The Chemical Philosophy Of Robert Boyle
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Author : Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-01
The Chemical Philosophy Of Robert Boyle written by Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-01 with Science categories.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) believed that a reductionist conception of the mechanical philosophy threatened the heuristic power and autonomy of chemistry as an experimental science. While some historical and philosophical scholars have examined his nuanced position, understanding the chemical philosophy he developed through his own experimental work is incredibly difficult even for experts in the field. In The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle, Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino energetically explains Boyle's ideas in a whole new light and proposes that Boyle regarded chemical qualities as non-reducible dispositional and relational properties that emerge from, and supervene upon, the mechanistic structure of chymical atoms. Banchetti-Robino demonstrates that these ideas are implicit in Boyle's writing, making his philosophical contributions crucial to the fields of both philosophy and chemistry. The arguments presented are further strengthened by a detailed mereological analysis of Boylean chymical atoms as chemically elementary entities, which establishes the theory of wholes and parts that is most consistent with an emergentist conception of chemical properties. More generally, this book examines the way in which Boyle sought to accommodate his complex chemical philosophy within the framework of the 17th century mechanistic theory of matter. Banchetti-Robino conceptualizes Boyle's experimental work as a scientific research programme, in the Lakatosian sense, to better explain the positive and negative heuristic function of the mechanistic theory of matter within his chemical philosophy. The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle actively engages with the contemporary and lively debates over the nature of Boyle's ideas about structural chemistry, fundamental mechanistic particles and properties, the explanatory power of subordinate causes, the complex relation between fundamental particles, natural kinds, and unified chemical wholes. The book is a rich historical account that begins with the dominant paradigms of 16th and 17th Century chemical philosophy and takes readers all the way through to the 21st Century.
The Explanatory Autonomy Of The Biological Sciences
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Author : Wei Fang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-23
The Explanatory Autonomy Of The Biological Sciences written by Wei Fang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-23 with Science categories.
This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences such as physics and chemistry and by demonstrating that biological explanations are advanced by models rather than laws of nature. To maintain the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences, the author argues against explanatory reductionism and shows that explanation in the biological sciences can be achieved without reduction. Then, he demonstrates that the biological sciences do not have laws of nature. Instead of laws, he suggests that biological models usually do the explanatory work. To understand how a biological model can explain phenomena in the world, the author proposes an inferential account of model explanation. The basic idea of this account is that, for a model to be explanatory, it must answer two kinds of questions: counterfactual-dependence questions that concern the model itself and hypothetical questions that concern the relationship between the model and its target system. The reason a biological model can answer these two kinds of questions is due to the fact that a model is a structure, and the holistic relationship between the model and its target warrants the hypothetical inference from the model to its target and thus helps to answer the second kind of question. The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology and metaphysics.
The Historiography Of The Chemical Revolution
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Author : John G McEvoy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
The Historiography Of The Chemical Revolution written by John G McEvoy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
This study offers a critical survey of past and present interpretations of the Chemical Revolution designed to lend clarity and direction to the current ferment of views.
Molecular Mechanisms Of Autonomy In Biological Systems
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Author : Tara Karimi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-07-28
Molecular Mechanisms Of Autonomy In Biological Systems written by Tara Karimi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-28 with Science categories.
This book presents a novel molecular description for understanding the regulatory mechanisms behind the autonomy and self-organization in biological systems. Chapters focus on defining and explaining the regulatory molecular mechanisms behind different aspects of autonomy and self-organization in the sense of autonomous coding, data processing, structure (mass) formation and energy production in a biological system. Subsequent chapters discuss the cross-talk among mechanisms of energy, and mass and information, transformation in biological systems. Other chapters focus on applications regarding therapeutic approaches in regenerative medicine. Molecular Mechanisms of Autonomy in Biological Systems is an indispensable resource for scientists and researchers in regenerative medicine, stem cell biology, molecular biology, tissue engineering, developmental biology, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, as well as big data sciences, complexity and soft computing.