Concept
Philosophy of chemistry
Overview
The philosophy of chemistry considers the methodology and underlying assumptions of the science of chemistry. It is explored by philosophers, chemists, and philosopher-chemist teams. For much of its history, philosophy of science has been dominated by the philosophy of physics, but the philosophical questions that arise from chemistry have received increasing attention since the latter part of the 20th century.
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Philosophers who discussed Philosophy of chemistry
Related ideas
- Germany
- Philosophy of physics
- Philosophy
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Life
- Malta
- Molecule
- Netherlands
- Nucleic acid
- Organic chemistry
- Periodic table
- Science
- Scientist
- Sugar
- Philosophy of science
- Oxford University Press
- Chemistry
- Carbon
- Symmetry
- Chemist
- Chemical bond
- Methodology
- Atom
- Extraterrestrial life
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Carbon
- Chemical bond
- Nucleic acid
- Organic chemistry
- Periodic table
- Sugar
- Enantiomer
- Chirality (chemistry)
- Amino acid
- Metallic bonding
- Aromaticity
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Homochirality
- Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou
- Racemic mixture
- Coordination complex
- Eric Scerri
- Retrosynthetic analysis
- Biologist
- Elias James Corey
- Nalini Bhushan