Scerri, Eric (2017) In response to “Super-Saturated Chemistry”. Inference, International Review of Science, 3 (1).
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As a chemist, and somebody who has tried to promote the philosophy of chemistry, I was delighted to see Marc Henry’s article.1 As numerous authors have emphasized, chemistry, the central science, seems to have been largely neglected by philosophers of science until about the mid 1990s.2 But even in the twenty or so subsequent years the field remains rather small and little appreciated. Physics is rightly regarded as the most fundamental of the natural sciences, and so receives the most attention from philosophers. About fifty years ago a philosophy of biology began to take shape and it has now become a well-established sub-discipline. This feat was not so difficult to achieve since life itself is clearly not reducible to physics. On the other hand, the question of the extent to which chemistry is reduced is more ambiguous.
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| Keywords: | Reducation of chemistry, quantum mechanics, Madelung Rule, Anomalous electronic configurations, Decoherence, Born-Oppenheimer Approx. | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Chemistry General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Depositing User: | Eric Scerri | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2025 17:59 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Jan 2025 17:59 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 24624 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Inference, International Review of Science | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://inference-review.com/letter/on-the-madelun... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://inference-review.com/letter/on-the-madelung-rule | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Chemistry General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Date: | 2017 | ||||||
| Volume: | 3 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24624 |
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