The Union of Chemistry and Physics: Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology
This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines. The author uses structuralist approach to explore the overlap between the two sciences, looking at their theoretical and ontological borrowings as well as their continuity.

The starting point of this book is that there is at least a form of unity between chemistry and physics, where the reduction relation is conceived as a special case of this unity. However, matters are never concluded so simply within philosophy of chemistry, as significant problems exist around a number of core chemical ideas. Specifically, one cannot take the obvious success of quantum theories as outright support for a reductive relationship. Instead, in the context of a suitably adapted Nagelian framework for reduction, modern chemistry's relationship to physics is constitutive. The results provided by quantum chemistry, in partic

ular, have significant consequences for chemical ontology.

This book is ideal for students, scholars and academics from the field of Philosophy of Science, and particularly for those with an interest in Philosophy of Chemistry and Physics.

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The Union of Chemistry and Physics: Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology
This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines. The author uses structuralist approach to explore the overlap between the two sciences, looking at their theoretical and ontological borrowings as well as their continuity.

The starting point of this book is that there is at least a form of unity between chemistry and physics, where the reduction relation is conceived as a special case of this unity. However, matters are never concluded so simply within philosophy of chemistry, as significant problems exist around a number of core chemical ideas. Specifically, one cannot take the obvious success of quantum theories as outright support for a reductive relationship. Instead, in the context of a suitably adapted Nagelian framework for reduction, modern chemistry's relationship to physics is constitutive. The results provided by quantum chemistry, in partic

ular, have significant consequences for chemical ontology.

This book is ideal for students, scholars and academics from the field of Philosophy of Science, and particularly for those with an interest in Philosophy of Chemistry and Physics.

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The Union of Chemistry and Physics: Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology

The Union of Chemistry and Physics: Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology

by Hinne Hettema
The Union of Chemistry and Physics: Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology

The Union of Chemistry and Physics: Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology

by Hinne Hettema

Overview

This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines. The author uses structuralist approach to explore the overlap between the two sciences, looking at their theoretical and ontological borrowings as well as their continuity.

The starting point of this book is that there is at least a form of unity between chemistry and physics, where the reduction relation is conceived as a special case of this unity. However, matters are never concluded so simply within philosophy of chemistry, as significant problems exist around a number of core chemical ideas. Specifically, one cannot take the obvious success of quantum theories as outright support for a reductive relationship. Instead, in the context of a suitably adapted Nagelian framework for reduction, modern chemistry's relationship to physics is constitutive. The results provided by quantum chemistry, in partic

ular, have significant consequences for chemical ontology.

This book is ideal for students, scholars and academics from the field of Philosophy of Science, and particularly for those with an interest in Philosophy of Chemistry and Physics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319869575
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 05/11/2018
Series: European Studies in Philosophy of Science , #7
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Pages: 295
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hinne Hettema is associated with the University of Auckland. He studied Chemistry and Philosophy at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, completing a PhD in 1993 (Chemistry) and 2012 (Philosophy). He is one of the authors of the Dalton quantum chemistry package.

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.

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