Philosophy of Chemistry
Series Editor:- Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London, UK
- Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
- John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Robin Hendry
- Paul Needham
- Andrea Woody
Included in series
Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
Hardbound, 575 Pages
Published: November 2011
Imprint: North-holland
ISBN: 978-0-444-51675-6
Contents
- General Preface
Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard, and John Woods
List of Contributors
Part 1. Introduction
Introduction,by Robin Findlay Hendry, Paul Needham and Andrea I.
Woody
Part 2. History of the Philosophy of Chemistry
Prehistory of the Philosophy of Chemistry, by Jaap van Brakel
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), by Alan Chalmers
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), by Hasok Chang
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), by Robin Findlay Hendry
John Dalton (1766-1844), by David Knight
Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), by Michael D. Gordin
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903), by Robert J. Deltete
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), by Robert J. Deltete
Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), by Paul Needham
Franti¿sek Wald (1861-1930), by Klaus Ruthenberg
G. N. Lewis (1875-1946), by Paul A. Bogaard
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Linus Pauling (1901-1994), by Robin Findlay Hendry
Charles Coulson (1910-1974), by Robin Findlay Hendry
Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003), by Joseph Earley Sr.
Part 3. Chemical Substances
Ancient Theories of Chemical Substance, by Paul Bogaard
Substances: The Ontology of Chemistry, by Jaap van Brakel
Modality, Mereology and Substance, by Paul Needham
Elements, by Robin Findlay Hendry
Compounds and Mixtures, by Paul Needham
Part 4. Chemical Concepts and Methods
Chemical Bond, by Robin Findlay Hendry
Mechanisms and Chemical Reaction, by Mark Goodwin
The Periodic Table, by Eric R. Scerri
Laws in Chemistry, by Rom Harré
Chemical Modeling, by Michael Weisberg
Part 5. Chemistry and Physics
Reduction, Emergence and Physicalism, by Robin Findlay Hendry
Atoms and Molecules in Classical Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics, by Brian T. Sutcliffe and R. Guy Woolley
Concept Amalgamation and Representation in Quantum Chemistry, by Andrea I. Woody
Thermodynamics in Chemistry, by G. Krishna Vemulapalli
Entropy in Chemistry, by Robert J. Deltete
Part 6. Chemistry and Other Disciplines
Chemistry and Molecular Biology, by Michel Morange
Chemistry and Pharmacy: A Philosophical Inquiry into an Evolving Relationship, by Jonathan Simon
Chemical Engineering Science, by Jaap van Brakel
Index
