AN INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY ACCORDING TO THE MODERN THEORIES

By V. FIRAK

1 Introduction 1 2 Reduction for a Dappled World: Connecting Chemical and Physical Theories 5 3 The Ontological Autonomy of the Chemical World: Facing the Criticisms 23 4 A Novel Approach to Emergence in Chemistry 39 5 The Methodological Pluralism of Chemistry and Its Philosophical Implications 57 6 Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Chemistry 73 7 One Substance or More? 91 8 Mereological Principles and Chemical Affordances 107 9 Metaphor in Chemistry: An Examination of Chemical Metaphor 121 10 From Corpuscles to Elements: Chemical Ontologies from Van Helmont to Lavoisier 141 11 Mendeleev and the Rare-Earth Crisis 155 12 Radicals, Reactions, Realism 183 13 Orbital Symmetry, Idealization, and the Kairetic Account of Scientific Explanation 201 14 Investigating the Meaning of the Ceteris Paribus Clause in Chemistry 219