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According to process ontology in the philosophy of biology, the living world is better understood as processes rather than as substantial individuals. Within this perspective, an organism does not ... processual approaches on enzymes by Stein (Hyle Int J Philos Chem 10(4):5-22, 2004, Process Stud 34:62-80, 2005, Found Chem 8:3-29, 2006) and by Guttinger (Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of
-philosophical tradition, starting with Hesiod´s Theogony and on the other, to the then available to the Greeks organoleptic experiences of sourness-vinegar and sour milk. Acidity; Theogony; Greek philosophy ... philosophers (essentially natural philosophers, in contrast to the strands of philosophy that were to flourish in the Hellenistic era)2 included virtually all the major names of the Greek thought of the pre
university (Upper Franconia/Bavaria/Germany). Latest after that June 1993, my main research interests turned to the history and philosophy of chemistry. Hence, with the Centenary Workshop, I am happy to look ... development of what some observers tend to call modern philosophy of chemistry. The idea to hold a meeting on the mentioned topic emerged from my research activities over the last almost ten years, during which
Philosophy of Chemistry meeting in 2022. The meeting was virtual because of the COVID pandemic. Because of the number of papers submitted, Eric Scerri and I decided to split the proceedings in two. The choice
philosophy of chemistry, the debate is at somewhat of an impasse. Ontological reductionism asserts that physical systems are causally complete, so that all chemical properties ought in principle to * be ... . : Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism. Springer, Dordrecht ( 2012 ) Chang , H. : Prospects for an integrated history and philosophy of composition . In: Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of
agent S has to a fact P that makes P certain for S. I do not take a stand here on precisely what facts we can apprehend. This will largely depend on the outcomes of debates in the philosophy of mind and ... philosophy of mind and perception will differ on what kinds of factors are mentally accessible in this way. In section 1, I developed the concept of apprehension in a way that remains neutral on these debates
in the philosophy of chemistry, is alluded to in further support of such a relocation of helium that may at first appear to contradict chemical intuition. ... responsible for reviving this question in the philosophy of science, have insisted that one should not attribute a microscopic interpretation to this notion. Some including Ruthenberg emphasize the
requisite evidence for/against both the mechanisms and single case chances ascribed. Philosophy of chemistry; Philosophy of probability; Chance; Chemical reactivity Probability: ontology and statistical ... within the philosophy of chemistry, the nature of chance and probability in these discussions, and in chemistry at large, remains underexplored. This is surprising since, for chemistry, the reductive basis
) . Periodic table as an object of the philosophy of science with historiographic means Eric Scerri, a distinguished theorist of the periodic table, presents—now in the second edition—a material-rich and ... comprehensive (XXVII & 472 pages) study that uses the history of the periodic table as a source of fundamental questions in the philosophy of 1 D. Mendelejeff, Ueber die Beziehungen der Eigenschaften zu den
and detractors, since ‘green’ is vividly evocative but may assume an unintended political connotation, whereas ‘sustainable’ can be paraphrased as ‘chemistry for a sustainable environment’, and may be ... means something different in countries such as the U.S. and Germany. (…) In Germany, the term ‘green’ in many elicits political-sociological feelings - for instance, fear of production shutdowns in
philosophy of physics on the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Hendry and Lombardi’s emergentist argument Lombardi (2014) takes molecular shape as the central issue relating the ontologies of chemistry ... Multiverse , by D. Wallace]. Philosophy of Science , 82 ( 1 ), 129 - 148 . ( 2015 ). https://doi.org/10.1086/679037 Bassi , A. , Ghirardi , G. : The Conway-Kochen argument and relativistic GRW Models . Found
announcing that the next annual conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC) will be held in Varaždin, a city close to Zagreb in Croatia and will be organized by Professor
This essay supports and encourages multiple disciplinary interactions for practitioners of the disciplines of chemistry, history of chemistry, philosophy of chemistry, and sociology of chemistry. ... chemistry, and sociology of chemistry. Multidisciplinarity; Interdisciplinarity of chemistry; Sociology of chemistry; History of chemistry; Philosophy - We have everything in common with ‘‘America
of chemistry for over a hundred years now, that is after the Long 19th Century.17 The physicalistic ideal of earlier philosophy of science was the concept that phenomena can be reduced to fundamental ... ( 2022 ) Tantillo , D.J. , Seeman , J.I. : On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry . Found Chem 25 , 1 - 22 ( 2023 )
philosophy of chemistry. Annie immediately asked whether there was any journal for this field and when I said that there wasn’t she suggested that I might start one. Following several years of planning and ... further meetings with Annie and others, the first volume of Foundations of Chemistry was published in 1999. The mission of the journal, from the beginning, was to include articles in philosophy of
theory and the inferentialist proposals in the philosophy of science developed during more or less the same years, namely the turn of the twenty-first century. For, in fact, there is no evidence that the ... philosophy approach to inferentialism in chemistry. For, in fact, the way chemists (most of them, as it seems sensible to assume, fully unacquainted with the recent contributions of the philosophers of science
chemistry and the philosophy of chemistry. From a general viewpoint, it is difficult to disagree with this claim; moreover, the interest of scientists in the history and the philosophy of science is always ... “unidisciplinary research” (p. 6), our work (Fortin et al. 2016) was the result of the collaboration between people coming from three different disciplinary origins: Fortin from physics, Lombardi from philosophy
movement of pluralist philosophies of science. We draw on recent pluralist accounts from (the philosophy of) chemistry and analyse three notions from modern chemical practice and theory (acidity ... , Germany 2 University of Tartu, Institute of Philosophy, Tartu, Estonia 13 Vol.:(0123456789) 404 K. Ruthenberg, A. Mets in fundamental physical terms) is no longer a generally acceptable claim (see
in the Tsarist period to show that if they live in times of great hardship, or under arbitrary political rule, political actors and thinkers with conservative sympathies (such as respect for tradition ... developing conservative political philosophy, other parts of history where conservatism?s problems have emerged and have a recognizable connection with the situation today remain of great interest. In
as ego-centric, disinterested and “bourgeois”, unconnected with what was happening in the real (material-political) world. He wanted to put his poetry on a scientific footing, notably by endorsing a ... Prins' research into liquid crystal chemistry. Liquid crystal chemistry; History of chemistry; Chemistry and poetry; Chemistry and society; Philosophy of chemistry Introduction In the Netherlands, the
