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Author: Jeffrey Kovac (Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) , Michael Weisberg (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania) , Jeffrey Kovac , Associate Michael Weisberg (Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9780199755905
ISBN 10: 0199755906
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 16 February 2012
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction, by Michael Weisberg and Jeffrey Kovac. 1 Trying to Understand, Making Bonds, by Roald Hoffmann Part 1: Chemical Reasoning and Explanation 2. Why Buy That Theory?, by Roald Hoffmann. 3. What Might Philosophy of Science Look Like If Chemists Built It?, by Roald Hoffmann 4. Unstable, by Roald Hoffmann 5. Nearly Circular Reasoning, by Roald Hoffmann 6. Ockham's Razor and Chemistry, by Roald Hoffmann, Vladimir I. Minkin, and Barry K. Carpenter 7. Qualitative Thinking in the Age of Modern Computational Chemistry, or What Lionel Salem Knows, by Roald Hoffmann 8. Narrative, by Roald Hoffmann 9. Learning from Molecules in Distress, by Roald Hoffmann and Henning Hopf 10. Why Think Up New Molecules? by Roald Hoffmann 11. Protean, by Roald Hoffmann and Pierre Laszlo 12. How Should Chemists Think? by Roald Hoffmann Part 2: Writing and Communicating in Chemistry 13. Under the Surface of the Chemical Article, by Roald Hoffmann 14. Representation in Chemistry, by Roald Hoffmann and Pierre Laszlo 15.. The Say of Things, by Roald Hoffmann and Pierre Laszlo 16. How Symbolic and Iconic Languages Bridge the Two Worlds of the Chemist: A Case Study from Contemporary Bioorganic Chemistry, by Emily R. Grosholz and Roald Hoffmann 17 How Nice to Be an Outsider, by Roald Hoffmann 18. The Metaphor, Unchained, by Roald Hoffmann, Part 3: Art and Science 19. Art in Science? by Roald Hoffmann 20. Science and Crafts by Roald Hoffmann 21. Molecular Beauty, by Roald Hoffmann Part 4 Chemical Education 22. Teach to Search by Roald Hoffmann 23. Some Heretical Thoughts on What Our Students Are Telling Us, by Roald Hoffmann and Brian P. Coppola 24 Very Specific Teaching Strategies, and Why They Work, by Roald Hoffmann and Saundra Y. McGuire Part 5 Ethics in Science 25. Mind the Shade, by Roald Hoffmann 26. Science and Ethics: A Marriage of Necessity and Choice for this Millennium,> by Roald Hoffmann 27. Honesty to the Singular Object, by Roald Hoffmann 28. The Material and Spiritual Rationales Are Inseparable, by Roald Hoffmann Index
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Each of the 28 chapters brings new arguments and should provoke thoughtful self-examination. Phillip Broadwith, Chemistry World
Each of the 28 chapters brings new arguments and should provoke thoughtful self-examination. * Phillip Broadwith, Chemistry World *
Author Information
Jeffrey Kovac is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee. Michael Weisberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
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