Chemical Explanation Characteristics, Development, Autonomy

includes index and biblioraphy

Structural Explanation in Chemistry and Its Evolving Forms. By rom harre . 1 Explaining Explanation in Chemistry. By GRANT FlSHER ................. 16 On Explanatory Practice and Disciplinary Identity. By andrea I. woody ... 22 The Ignis Fatuus of Reduction and Unification: Back to the Rough Ground. By J. van brakel ............................................ 30 Autonomy, Explanation, and Theoretical Values: Physicists and Chemists on Molecular Quantum Mechanics. By robin findlay hendry .......... 44 Natural Kinds, Explanation, and Essentialism in Chemistry. By rein vihalemm ............................................... 59 The Primary Properties? By S.H.VOLLMER ............................... 71 Varieties of Properties: An Alternative Distinction among Qualities. By joseph E. earley, sr. ......................................... 80 Property Reduction in Chemistry: Some Lessons. By G. K. vemulapalli ................... Chemical Substances and Intensive Properties. By paul needham .......... 99 Paradoxes of Measurement. By patrick A. heelan ...................... 114 Specific Applications Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics. By ilya prigogine ..................... 128 Reaction Mechanisms and Chemical Explanation. By GlUSEPPE del re ..... 133 Explanation in Organic Chemistry. By WILLIAM GOODWIN ................. 141 On the Ordinality of Causes in Complex Autocatalytic Systems. By robert E. ulanowicz ........................................ 154 Chirality and Handedness: The Ruch "Shoe-Potato" Dichotomy in the Right-Left Classification Problem. By R. BRUCE king ................ 158 How Harmful Is the First Law? By georg job and timm lankau .......... 171 Physical Explanation of the Periodic Table. By V. N. OSTROVSKY ........... 182 Gauge Theory and Chemical Structure. By james mattingly .............. 193 Symmetry in Basic Physical Laws. By elmar kuhl and timm lankau .... 203 Part HI. Representation and Instrumentation The Metaphorical Foundations of Chemical Explanation. By theodore L. brown .......................................... 209 "Causes" in Chemical Explanations. By janet D. stemwedel .............. 217 John Dalton and the Aesthetics of Molecular Representation. By tami I. spector ............................................... 227 Writing as Thinking. By jeffrey kovac ................................. 233 Statement Analysis in Chemistry. By claus jacob ........................ 239 Beyond the Dimensionality of Visualization in Chemistry. By andrzej burewicz and nikodem miranowicz ................. 244 Justifying Instrumental Techniques of Analytical Chemistry. By daniel rothbart and ladislav kohout ...................... 250 Negotiated Identities of Chemical Instrumentation: The Case of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 1956-1969. By JODY A. roberts .. 257 Development and Societal Impact Chemical versus Biological Explanations: Interdisciplinarity and Reductionism in 19th Century Life Sciences. By joachim schummer .. 269 Richard Rufus`s Theory of Mixture: A Medieval Explanation of Chemical Combination. By michael WEISBERG and rega wood .............. 282 The Lavoisier-Kirwan Debate and Approaches to the Evaluation of Theories. By michael akeroyd ......................................... 293