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The Autonomy of Chemistry

3rd Erlenmeyer-Colloquy for the Philosophy of Chemistry. Edited by Peter Janich and Nikolaos Psarros.

Zwölf englischsprachige Beiträge befassen sich hauptsächlich mit der Frage nach der Eigenständigkeit der Chemie im Verhältnis zu ihren Nachbarwissenschaften. - Contents: Klaus Mainzer: Computational and Mathematical Models in Chemistry. Epistemic Foundations and New Perspectives of Research. - Roland A. Fischer/Alissa C. Frank: Synthetic Microbiology. Just another Discipline of Chemistry? - Peter Janich: The Autonomy of Chemistry and the Principles of Methodical Order and of Culture. - Pierre Laszlo: Belabouring the Obvious. Chemistry as Sister Science to Linguistics. - Valeria Mosini: Against Fundamentalism and Particularism. - Nikos Psarros: The Tiniest Parts of... The Concept of Molecule in Chemistry, Physics and Biology. - Gernot Frenking: Heretical Thoughts of a Theoretical Chemist about the Autonomy of Chemistry as a Science in the Past and the Present. - Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent: The Autonomy of Chemistry and the Chemical Revolution. - Peter Buck: Chemical Comprehension versus Physical Comprehension. The Case of Julius Robert Mayer. - Joachim Schummer: Physical Chemistry. Neither Fish nor Fowl? - Theodore Arabatzis: How the Electrons spend their Leisure Time. Philosophical Reflections on a Controversy between Chemists and Physicists. - Gerd Hanekamp: Valence and the Chemical Bond. Crossing the Border between Chemistry and Physics. - 173 Seiten mit 8 Abb., broschiert (Königshausen & Neumann 1998) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear