Chemistry's Metaphysics by Vanessa A Seifert
The place of chemistry in the metaphysics of science may be viewed as peripheral compared to physics and biology. However, a metaphysics of science that disregards chemistry would be incomplete and ill-informed. This Element establishes this claim by showing how key metaphysical issues are informed by drawing on chemistry. Five metaphysical topics are investigated: natural kinds, scientific realism, reduction, laws and causation. These topics are spelled out from the perspective of ten chemical case studies, each of which illuminates the novel ways that metaphysics of science can be informed by chemistry. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.-
The Methodology of Metaphysics
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The Metaphysics of Logic
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Metaphysics of Causation
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Metaphysics and the Sciences
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Metaphysics of Race
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Abstract Objects
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Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations
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The Metaphysics of Gender
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Relations
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Persistence
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Properties
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Substance
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Modal Naturalism
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The Metaphysics of Color
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Social Ontology
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Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics
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Metaontology
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Reduction, Emergence and the Metaphysics in Science
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Indeterminacy in the World
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Ontological Categories
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Dispositions and Powers
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Teleology
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Identity
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Truthmaking
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Formal Ontology
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Parts and Wholes
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Laws of Nature
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Material Objects
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Essence
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Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism
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Time
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009467865 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009467867 |
| Title | Chemistry's Metaphysics |
| Author | Vanessa A Seifert |
| Series | Elements In Metaphysics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2024-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 86 |
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