The philosophy of chemistry has emerged in recent years as a new and autonomous field within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition. With the development of this new discipline, Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher's "The Philosophy of Chemistry" is a timely and definitive guide to all current thought in this field.

History and philosophy of chemistry 1. Alan Chalmers. Robert Boyle's Corpuscular Chemistry: Atomism before its Time. 2. Nick Best. What was revolutionary about the Chemical Revolution? 3. Kostas Gavroglu & Ana Simões. Philosophical issues in (sub)-disciplinary contexts. The case of quantum chemistry Reduction and explanation 4. Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino & Jean-Pierre Noël Llored. Reality Without Reification: Philosophy of Chemistry's Contribution to Philosophy of Mind 5. Lee McIntyre. Who's Afraid of Supervenient Laws? 6. Eric Scerri. The changing views of a philosopher of chemistry on the question of reduction. 7. Noretta Koertge. Contingencies in Chemical Explanation 8. Dick Pagni. Reaction mechanisms. Metaphysical issues 9. Rom Harré. Causality in Chemistry: Regularities and Agencies. 10. Joe Earley. How Properties Hold Together in Substances. 11. Hasok Chang. Scientific Realism and Chemistry. 12. Robin Hendry. Natural Kinds in Chemistry. Theory and practice 13. Hinne Hettema. Chemistry and the Theoretician's dilemma. 14. Grant Fisher. Divergence, Diagnostics, and a Dichotomy of Methods. 15. Guillermo Restrepo. Mathematical Chemistry, a New Discipline. 16. Rein Vihalemm. The Dual Character of Chemistry.

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Selling point: Co-editors are leading philosophers of science Selling point: "Philosophy of chemistry" is a new and exciting field, and this book has the potential to become the gold standard in the literature

Eric Scerri is a chemist, writer, and philosopher of science. He is a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Grant Fisher is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Selling point: Co-editors are leading philosophers of science Selling point: "Philosophy of chemistry" is a new and exciting field, and this book has the potential to become the gold standard in the literature