Chemistry : the impure science /

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Author / Creator:Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette.
Imprint:London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., c2008.
Description:xii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Chemistry.
Chemistry -- Philosophy.
Verontreinigingen
Filosofische aspecten
Milieuverontreiniging.
Chemie.
Chemie
Chemistry.
Chemistry -- Philosophy.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7540976
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Other authors / contributors:Simon, Jonathan, 1964-
ISBN:9781848162259 (hbk.)
1848162251 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-262) and index.
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This is an unusual and remarkable book, which mingles philosophy of chemistry, a recently resurgent segment of philosophy of science, with history of chemistry, and includes an examination of the image of chemistry in society. Some chapter headings give the flavor of the book's diversity: "Chemistry and Pollution," "The Damnation of the Alchemist," "Proof in the Laboratory," "Chemistry versus Physics," "Positivism and Chemistry," "Atoms as Fictions," and "Towards a Responsible Chemistry." Bensaude-Vincent (Universite Paris X, France) and Simon (Universite Lyon, France), significant contributors to history and philosophy of chemistry, develop cogent arguments about the independent place of chemistry among the sciences. The book is clearly written and contains a few pertinent illustrations and an extensive bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers/libraries. H. Goldwhite emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles

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