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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Of minds and molecules. Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2000 (DLC) 99040329 (OCoLC)42072104 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nalini Bhushan; Stuart M Rosenfeld |
ISBN: | 9780195351811 0195351819 128083112X 9781280831126 9786610831128 6610831122 |
OCLC Number: | 352886903 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Missing elements : what philosophers of science might discover in chemistry / Andrea Woody, Clark Glymour -- "Laws" and "theories" in chemistry do not obey the rules / Maureen Christie, John R. Christie -- Realism, reduction, and the "intermediate position" / Eric R. Scerri -- Substance and function in chemical research / Daniel Rothbart -- Analytical instrumentation and instrumental objectivity / Davis Baird -- Realism, essentialism, and intrinsic properties : the case of molecular shape / Jeffry L. Ramsey -- Space and the chiral molecule / Robin Le Poidevin -- Bulterov's vision : the timeless, the transient, and the representation of chemical structure / Steve J. Weininger -- The nature of chemical substances / Jaap Van Brakel -- Chemical synthesis : complexity, similarity, natural kinds, and the evolution of a "logic" / Stuart Rosenfeld, Nalini Bhushan -- Models and explanations : understanding chemical reaction mechanisms / Barry K. Carpenter -- How symbolic and iconic languages bridge the two worlds of the chemist : a case study from contemporary bioorganic chemistry / Emily R. Grosholz, Roald Hoffmann -- Archiving odors / Thomas Hellman Morton -- The slighting of smell (with a brief word on the slighting of chemistry) / William G. Lycan. |
Responsibility: | edited by Nalini Bhushan, Stuart Rosenfeld. |
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...they have achieved a rare collaboration of effort between a chemist and a philosopher, to examine what lies at the intersection of these two fields, and the philosophy of chemistry is the richer for it. Bhushan and Rosenfeld have put together a collection by some of the most prestigious authors in this newly emerging field, whose prior work has been spread over numerous journals and other venues that were rarely devoted singly to the philosopher of chemistry. Forthis alone the book is commendable...it goes beyond collecting work that has already been done and seeks to provide a vision for the discipline...Here the reader gains full appreciation for how the neglect of philosophical concern with chemistry might have implications...perhaps even changing what weconceive the field of the philosophy of science to be about. * The Philosophical Review * Read more...

