Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline
暫譯: 化學哲學：新學科的成長
Scerri, Eric, McIntyre, Lee
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2016-09-10
- 售價: $4,660
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,427
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 233
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 940240161X
- ISBN-13: 9789402401615
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化學 Chemistry
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商品描述
This volume follows the successful book, which has helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, science educators as well as chemists, physicists and biologists. The introduction summarizes the way in which the field has developed in the ten years since the previous volume was conceived and introduces several new authors who did not contribute to the first edition. The editors are well placed to assemble this book, as they are the editor in chief and deputy editors of the leading academic journal in the field, Foundations of Chemistry. The philosophy of chemistry remains a somewhat neglected field, unlike the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology. Why there has been little philosophical attention to the central discipline of chemistry among the three natural sciences is a theme that is explored by several of the contributors. This volume will do a great deal to redress this imbalance. Among the themes covered is the question of reduction of chemistry to physics, the reduction of biology to chemistry, whether true chemical laws exist and causality in chemistry. In addition more general questions of the nature of organic chemistry, biochemistry and chemical synthesis are examined by specialist in these areas.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本卷書籍延續了成功的前作，該書幫助將化學哲學介紹並擴展到更廣泛的受眾，包括哲學家、歷史學家、科學教育者以及化學家、物理學家和生物學家。導言總結了自前一卷構思以來的十年間該領域的發展，並介紹了幾位未參與第一版的新的作者。編輯們在組織這本書方面具有良好的條件，因為他們是該領域領先學術期刊《化學基礎》的主編和副編輯。與物理哲學和生物哲學不同，化學哲學仍然是一個相對被忽視的領域。為什麼在三個自然科學中，化學這一核心學科鮮有哲學關注，是幾位貢獻者探討的主題。本卷將在很大程度上彌補這一不平衡。涵蓋的主題包括化學是否可以歸結為物理學、生物學是否可以歸結為化學、是否存在真正的化學定律以及化學中的因果關係。此外，專家還探討了有機化學、生物化學和化學合成的性質等更一般性問題。
作者簡介
Eric Scerri was educated at the Universities of London, Cambridge and Southampton. He then obtained a PhD in the History & Philosophy of Chemistry from King's College, London. After postdoctoral fellowships at the London School of Economics and Caltech Scerri joined the UCLA faculty in 2000, where he teaches chemistry, history & philosophy of science.
He is the author of three award-winning books with Oxford University Press, namely The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, A Very Short Introduction to the Periodic Table and most recently A Tale of Seven Elements. In addition Scerri has published two books of his own collected research papers on the history & philosophy of chemistry and as well as co-editing three further books on the philosophy of chemistry. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and he is currently working on two new books. He is also is the founder and editor-in- chief of the journal Foundations of Chemistry.
Scerri's research includes topics such as the extent to which chemistry is reduced to quantum mechanics and the historical and philosophical significance of the periodic system. He has appeared on radio and television and at lectures in countries all round the world and has published numerous articles in professional journals as well as more popular magazines including Scientific American, American Scientist, New Scientist etc.
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has taught philosophy at Colgate University, Boston University, Tufts Experimental College, Simmons College, and Harvard Extension School. He is Coordinating Editor of the journal Foundations of Chemistry. Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, McIntyre has also served as a policy advisor to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard and as an Associate Editor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He is the author of Laws and Explanation in the Social Sciences (Westview Press, 1996) and Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior (MIT Press, 2006), which won the Silver Award for Philosophy in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards for 2006. He is the co-editor (with Michael Martin) of Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science (MIT Press, 1994) and Philosophy of Chemistry (Springer, 2006) (with Eric Scerri and Davis Baird). He has also written numerous philosophical essays that have appeared in Synthese, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Teaching Philosophy, Perspectives on Science, Biology and Philosophy, Critica, and Theory and Decision, as well as articles that have appeared in The Humanist, The Times Higher Education Supplement and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
埃瑞克·斯凱瑞（Eric Scerri）曾在倫敦大學、劍橋大學和南安普敦大學接受教育。隨後，他在倫敦國王學院獲得化學史與哲學的博士學位。經過在倫敦政治經濟學院和加州理工學院的博士後研究後，斯凱瑞於2000年加入加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）教職，教授化學、科學史與哲學。
他是牛津大學出版社三本獲獎書籍的作者，分別是元素週期表：它的故事與意義、元素週期表簡介以及最近出版的七種元素的故事。此外，斯凱瑞還出版了兩本自己的研究論文集，專注於化學的歷史與哲學，並共同編輯了三本關於化學哲學的書籍。他的書籍已被翻譯成十五種語言，目前正在撰寫兩本新書。他也是期刊化學基礎的創始人和主編。
斯凱瑞的研究主題包括化學在多大程度上可以歸結為量子力學，以及元素週期系統的歷史和哲學意義。他曾在全球各地的廣播和電視節目中出現，並在多個國家的講座上發表演講，還在專業期刊以及更受歡迎的雜誌上發表了大量文章，包括科學美國人、美國科學家、新科學家等。
李·麥金泰爾（Lee McIntyre）是波士頓大學哲學與科學史中心的研究員，並在哈佛延伸學院教授倫理學。他擁有衛斯理大學的學士學位，以及密西根大學安娜堡分校的碩士和博士學位。他曾在科爾蓋特大學、波士頓大學、塔夫茨實驗學院、西蒙斯學院和哈佛延伸學院教授哲學。他是期刊化學基礎的協調編輯。麥金泰爾曾擔任哈佛大學定量社會科學研究所的執行主任，並曾擔任哈佛文理學院執行院長的政策顧問，以及波士頓聯邦儲備銀行研究部的副編輯。他是社會科學中的法律與解釋（Westview Press, 1996）和黑暗時代：人類行為科學的案例（MIT Press, 2006）的作者，後者在2006年獲得ForeWord Magazine年度圖書獎的哲學類銀獎。他與邁克爾·馬丁（Michael Martin）共同編輯了社會科學哲學讀本（MIT Press, 1994）和化學哲學（Springer, 2006）（與埃瑞克·斯凱瑞和戴維·貝爾德共同編輯）。他還撰寫了多篇哲學論文，發表在Synthese、社會科學哲學、教學哲學、科學觀點、生物學與哲學、批評和理論與決策等期刊上，以及在人文主義者、高等教育時報和高等教育編年史上發表的文章。
