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

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over...
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Author: Jeffrey Kovac
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Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry by Kovac, Jeffrey

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

CHF 110.29

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

CHF 110.29
Author: Jeffrey Kovac
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Hoffmann has thought and written extensively about a wide variety of other topics, such as chemistry's relationship to philosophy, literature, and the arts, including the nature of chemical reasoning, the role of symbolism and writing in science, and the relationship between art and craft and science. In Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry, Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg bring together twenty-eight of Hoffmann's most important essays. Gathered here are Hoffmann's most philosophically significant and interesting essays and lectures, many of which are not widely accessible. In essays such as "Why Buy That Theory," "Nearly Circular Reasoning," "How Should Chemists Think," "The Metaphor, Unchained," "Art in Science," and "Molecular Beauty," we find the mature reflections of one of America's leading
scientists. Organized under the general headings of Chemical Reasoning and Explanation, Writing and Communicating, Art and Science, Education, and Ethics, these stimulating essays provide invaluable insight into the teaching and practice of science.


Author: Jeffrey Kovac
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/23/2012
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780199755905


Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2012

About the Author

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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