Philosophy of chemistry : between the manifest and the scientific image /
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| Author / Creator: | Brakel, J. van (Jaap) |
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| Imprint: | Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xiv, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Louvain philosophical studies 15 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4456016 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. emergence of philosophy of chemistry
- 1.1. physical and chemical matter: some preliminaries
- 1.2. the heritage of Kant
- 1.3. from Hegel to Bachelard
- 1.4. 'classical' philosophy of science and chemistry
- 1.5. philosophy of chemistry in Eastern Europe
- 1.6. the Chelintsev affair
- 1.7. philosophy of science opens up
- 1.8. birth of philosophy of chemistry proper
- 2. philosophical preliminaries
- 2.1. manifest and scientific image
- 2.2. surfaces
- 2.3. reduction
- 2.4. supervenience and emergence
- 2.5. natural kinds
- 2.6. causal theory of reference
- 3. chemical substances
- 3.1. the science of stuffs
- 3.2. manifest and scientific water
- 3.3. molecule structure and microreductionistic essences
- 3.4. a macroscopic definition of pure substance
- 3.5. polywater
- 4. essentialistic realism
- 4.1. Kripke and Putnam on water
- 4.2. molecules and atoms
- 4.3. possible worlds
- 4.4. proliferation of essences
- 5. the alleged reduction of chemistry
- 5.1. the idea that chemistry can be reduced to physics
- 5.2. thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
- 5.3. quantum chemistry
- 5.4. 'ab initio' methods
- 5.5. holism of quantum mechanics and shape of molecules
- 6. ceteris paribus
- 6.1. chemical laws and models
- 6.2. ceteris paribus laws
- 6.3. protochemistry
- 6.4. the ubiquity of models and ceteris paribus conditions
- 7. modelling in chemical engineering
- 7.1. similarity considerations and dimensionless numbers
- 7.2. dimensional analysis
- 7.3. dimensional analysis in chemical engineering
- 7.4. presuppositions of dimensional analysis
- 7.5. the model of dimensional analysis
- 8. conclusion
- 8.1. how to fit it all together
- 8.2. primacy of manifest over scientific image.
