CONF: Philosophy of Chemistry (Annual Conference of ISPC) in Coburg, Germany
2008年07月27日 23:00
International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Symposium 2008,
Coburg, Germany, August 03.-06.
Paper programme (status July 08, 2008)
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Monday, August 04
09:00 - 09:30 Anke Timmermann, Philadelphia, USA
Why, how, what for? Reflections on the possibility and implications of a
philosophy of alchemy
09:30 - 10:00 Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
A chemistry without hypothesis? Maurice Delacre (1862-1938) and
positivist chemistry
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Michael Akeroyd, Bradford, United Kingdom
The philosophical significance of Mendeleev´s successful predictions of
the properties of gallium and scandium
11:00 - 11:30 Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Peter Thyssen, Louvain-la-neuve
and Leuven, Belgium
Accommodating the transition metals in the Periodic Table - Trouble with
triads
11:30 - 12:00 Joost Mertens, The Hague, Netherlands
Electrolysis by electro synthesis. William Robert Grove´s gas battery
(1839-1845)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 13:30 Klaus Ruthenberg, Coburg, Germany
Radicals: Their way from noumenon to phaenomenon
13:30 - 14:00 Martin Labarca and Olimpia Lombardi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Why orbitals cannot be observed?
14:00 - 14:30 Mark Leach, Salford, United Kingdom
Basic substance, simple substance: An exploration
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30 José Antonio Chamizo, Mexico City, Mexico
Toulmin´s argumentation diagrams in philosophy of chemistry teaching
15:00 - 16:00 Discussion on philosophy of chemistry in education
Tuesday, August 05
09:00 - 09:30 Rom Harré, Oxford and Washington, UK/USA
Causality in chemistry
09:30 - 10:00 Eugen Schwarz, Siegen, Germany
On relations between chemistry and physics
10:00 - 10:30 Olimpia Lombardi and Mario Castagnino, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Matters are not so clear on the physical side
10:30 - 13:00 Excursion
13:00 - 13:30 Paul Needham, Stockholm, Sweden
A mereological interpretation of the phase rule
13.30 - 14:00 Eric Scerri, Los Angeles, USA
On chemical natural kinds
14:00 - 14:30 Jaap van Brakel, Leuven, Belgium
Anomalous anomalous monism: the many sides of chemistry
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30 Robin Hendry, Durham, United Kingdom
Entropy and chemical substance
15:30 - 16:00 Bahareh Honarparvar, Majid Monajjemi, and F. Mollaamin,
Tehran, Iran
Conceptual investigation of life and behavior in the viewpoint of entropy
Wednesday, August 06
09:00 - 09:30 P. Müürsepp, Talinn, Estonia
Chemistry as a physics-like science
09:30 - 10:00 Rein Vihalemm, Tartu, Estonia
The autonomy of chemistry: Old and new problems
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Jürgen Lenz, Austria
The emergent properties of matter versus the reduction of chemistry to
physics
11:00 - 11:30 Majid Monajjemi, Bahareh Honarparvar, and F. Mollaamin,
Tehran, Iran
Normal mode analysis and harmonic molecular resonance in the viewpoint
of music
11:30 - 12:00 Jens Soentgen, Augsburg, Germany
From Pliny’s spiritus letalis to climate killer: The history of CO2
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The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance, by Eric Scerri, Oxford
University Press, 2007.
named as “Outstanding Academic Book for 2007″ by Choice Library Magazine.
Collected Papers (by Eric Scerri) on Philosophy of Chemistry, Imperial
College Press, 2008.
