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Philosophy of Chemistry - Growth of a New Discipline (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2015) Loot Price: R3,153
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Philosophy of Chemistry - Growth of a New Discipline (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2015): Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre

Philosophy of Chemistry - Growth of a New Discipline (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2015)

Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 306

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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.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 306
Release date: November 2014
First published: 2015
Editors: Eric Scerri • Lee McIntyre
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 233
Edition: 2nd ed. 2015
ISBN-13: 978-9401793636
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > General
LSN: 9401793638
Barcode: 9789401793636

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