Philosophy of Chemistry

Philosophies of the Sciences: A Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 163-183

  Schummer, Joachim ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical knowledge artificial creation of pure chemical substances; Chemistry about radical change dealing with fundamental problems; Chemistry reducible to physics; Fundamental limits to chemical knowledge; Interatomic structures of substances dynamic entities; Methodology of chemistry kind of pragmatic patchwork knowledge; Philosophy of chemistry; Philosophy of chemistry and ontological, epistemological, methodological, and ethical issues; Process philosophy; Theoreticism, experimentalism, and realism and questions of ontological priority

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867345884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444315578.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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