数量viii, 410 pages : ; 25 cm.
寄与者edited by Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher.
一般注記History and philosophy of chemistry -- Alan Chalmers. Robert Boyle's Corpuscular chemistry : atomism before its time -- Nicholas W. Best. What was revolutionary about the chemical revolution-- Kostas Gavroglu & Ana Simões. Philosophical issues in (sub) disciplinary contexts. The case of quantum chemistry -- Reduction and explanation -- Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino & Jean-Pierre Noël Llored. Reality without reification : philosophy of chemistry's contribution to philosophy of mind -- Lee McIntyre. Who's afraid of supervenient laws?-- Eric R. Scerri. The changing views of a philosopher of chemistry on the question of reduction -- Noretta Koertge. Contingencies in chemical explanation -- Richard M. Pagni. Reaction mechanisms -- Metaphysical issues -- Rom Harré. Causality in chemistry : regularities and agencies -- Joseph E. Earley, Sr. How properties hold together in substances -- Hasok Chang. Scientific realism and chemistry -- Robin Findlay Hendry. Natural kinds in chemistry -- Theory and practice -- Hinne Hettema. Chemistry and "The theoretician's dilemma" -- Grant Fisher. Divergence, diagnostics, and a dichotomy of methods -- Guillermo Restrepo. Mathematical chemistry, a new discipline -- Rein Vihalemm. Science, φ-science, and the dual character of chemistry.