The Union of Chemistry and Physics Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology /
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| Summary: | XV, 295 p. 19 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | European Studies in Philosophy of Science,
7 |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60910-2 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1: Reduction: a model for the reduction of chemistry to physics
- Part I Explanatory Limits
- 2 Explaining the Chemical Bond: Idealisation and Concretisation
- 3 Molecular Structure: What Philosophers got wrong
- 4 The Theory of Absolute Reaction Rates
- 5 Quantum chemistry as a Research Programme
- Part II Formal Models
- 6 Reduction between structures: some issues and a proposal
- 7 Models for Quantum Chemistry
- 8 Reduction with Structures: Two examples
- Part III Ontological consequences
- 9 Orbitals and Ontology in the Philosophy of Chemistry
- 10 The ontology of chemistry.