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Filosofia della chimica
Spezia, Riccardo
2017
Abstract
In this article I will show the basic ideas and current discussions in philosophy of chemistry, a relatively new field of philosophy of science. I will begin from the typical contraposition between reductionism and emergentism and then I will show how scientists and philosophers take into account chemical conceptual problems. This will be our guideline for an overview starting from atoms and ending up to macroscopic substances. Finally, I will show how the question of the natural kinds, few discussed up to now in philosophy of chemistry, is crucial for epistemological and ontological characterization of the different concepts of chemistry, and, thus, of the whole chemical science.
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Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Riccardo Spezia, "Filosofia della chimica", in "APhEx 15", 2016, pp. 35
Languages
it
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