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Philosophical Chemistry - Professor Manuel DeLanda

Philosophical Chemistry

Genealogy of a Scientific Field
Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-8640-4 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda’s revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda’s historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization and hybridization through the fields and subfields of chemistry.

This book creates a model of a scientific field capable of accommodating the variation and differentiation evident in the history of scientific practice. The three chapters deal with one subfield of chemistry in the century in which it was developed: eighteenth-century inorganic chemistry, nineteenth-century organic chemistry, and nineteenth-century physical chemistry. DeLanda proposes a model that is made of three components: a domain of phenomena, a community of practitioners, and a set of instruments and techniques connecting the community to the domain.

Philosophical Chemistry will be essential reading for those engaged in emergent, radical and contemporary strands of thought in the philosophy of science and for those scholars and students who strive to practice a productive dialogue between the two disciplines.

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. He began his career in experimental film, later becoming a computer artist and programmer. He is now Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Introduction.

Chapter One: Classical Chemistry.
A Multiplicity of Cognitive Tools.
From Personal to Consensus Practice: 1700-1800.

Chapter Two: Organic Chemistry.
The Specialization of Cognitive Tools.
From Personal to Consensus Practice: 1800-1900.

Chapter Three: Physical Chemistry.
The Hybridization of Cognitive Tools.
From Personal to Consensus Practice: 1800-1900.

Chapter Four: Social Chemistry.
Conventions, Boundaries, and Authority.

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 282 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Naturwissenschaften Chemie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-4742-8640-2 / 1474286402
ISBN-13 978-1-4742-8640-4 / 9781474286404
Zustand Neuware
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