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Philosophy of Chemistry
Between the Manifest & the Scientific Image


By J. van Brakel
December 2000
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 90-5867-063-5
260 Pages
$47.50 paper original

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The author addresses themes in the newly emerging discipline of philosophy of chemistry, with discussions in the philosophy of science on natural kinds, reduction, and chemical laws. Topics include: heritage of Kant, from Hegel to Bachelard, classical philosophy, manifest & scientific image, surfaces, reduction, emergence, causal theory, chemical substances, essentialistic realism, alleged reduction of chemistry, chemical laws & models, modeling in chemical engineering, etc.

Philosophy; Science
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