Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field by Delanda, Manuel

Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field

Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a...
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Author: Manuel Delanda
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Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field by Delanda, Manuel

Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field

¥7,461

Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field

¥7,461
Author: Manuel Delanda
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization and hybridization through the fields and subfields of chemistry.

The strategy followed uses a series of chemical textbooks, separated from each other by fifty year periods (1750, 1800, 1850, and 1900), to follow the historical formation of consensus practices. The three chapters deal with one subfield of chemistry in the century in which it was developed: eighteenth-century inorganic chemistry, nineteenth-century organic chemistry, and nineteenth-century physical chemistry. This book creates a model of a scientific field capable of accommodating the variation and differentiation evident in the history of scientific practice. DeLanda proposes a model that is made of three components: a domain of phenomena, a community of practitioners, and a set of instruments and techniques connecting the community to the domain.

Philosophical Chemistry will be essential reading for those engaged in emergent, radical and contemporary strands of thought in the philosophy of science and for those scholars and students who strive to practice a productive dialogue between the two disciplines.

Author: Manuel Delanda
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 10/17/2019
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781474286404

About the Author
Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. He began his career in experimental film, later becoming a computer artist and programmer. He is now Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.


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