Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry

Name: Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry
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ISBN: 9780199755905

ISBN-10: 0199755906

ISBN-13: 9780199755905

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jeffrey Kovac, Michael Weisberg

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/23/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.50" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Jeffrey Kovac is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee. Michael Weisberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Trying to Understand, Making Bonds




Chemical Reasoning and Explanation



Why Buy That Theory?




What Might Philosophy of Science Look Like If Chemists Built It?




Unstable




Nearly Circular Reasoning




Ockham's Razor and Chemistry




Qualitative Thinking in the Age of Modern Computational Chemistry, or What Lionel Salem Knows




Narrative




Learning from Molecules in Distress




Why Think Up New Molecules?




Protean




How Should Chemists Think?




Writing and Communicating in Chemistry



Under the Surface of the Chemical Article




Representation in Chemistry




The Say of Things




How Symbolic and Iconic Languages Bridge the Two Worlds of the Chemist: A Case Study from Contemporary Bioorganic Chemistry




How Nice to Be an Outsider




The Metaphor, Unchained




Art and Science



Art in Science?




Science and Crafts




Molecular Beauty




Chemical Education



Teach to Search




Some Heretical Thoughts on What Our Students Are Telling Us




Very Specific Teaching Strategies, and Why They Work




Ethics in Science



Mind the Shade




Science and Ethics: A Marriage of Necessity and Choice for this Millennium




Honesty to the Singular Object




The Material and Spiritual Rationales Are Inseparable



Index