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The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence

Autor Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 sep 2020
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) believed that a reductionist conception of the mechanical philosophy threatened the heuristic power and autonomy of chemistry as an experimental science. While some historical and philosophical scholars have examined his nuanced position, understanding the chemical philosophy he developed through his own experimental work is incredibly difficult even for experts in the field. In The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle, Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino energetically explains Boyle's ideas in a whole new light and proposes that Boyle regarded chemical qualities as non-reducible dispositional and relational properties that emerge from, and supervene upon, the mechanistic structure of chymical atoms. Banchetti-Robino demonstrates that these ideas are implicit in Boyle's writing, making his philosophical contributions crucial to the fields of both philosophy and chemistry. The arguments presented are further strengthened by a detailed mereological analysis of Boylean chymical atoms as chemically elementary entities, which establishes the theory of wholes and parts that is most consistent with an emergentist conception of chemical properties. More generally, this book examines the way in which Boyle sought to accommodate his complex chemical philosophy within the framework of the 17th century mechanistic theory of matter. Banchetti-Robino conceptualizes Boyle's experimental work as a scientific research programme, in the Lakatosian sense, to better explain the positive and negative heuristic function of the mechanistic theory of matter within his chemical philosophy. The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle actively engages with the contemporary and lively debates over the nature of Boyle's ideas about structural chemistry, fundamental mechanistic particles and properties, the explanatory power of subordinate causes, the complex relation between fundamental particles, natural kinds, and unified chemical wholes. The book is a rich historical account that begins with the dominant paradigms of 16th and 17th Century chemical philosophy and takes readers all the way through to the 21st Century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197502501
ISBN-10: 0197502504
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Using several different strands from this literature, Marina Banchetti-Robino aims to show how Boyle addresses issues relevant to philosophy of chemistry today: the emergent nature of chemical properties, the mereology of fundamental chemical wholes, and the nonreducibility of chemistry to physics.
I found the author's discussion...to be particularly interesting and informative.
Banchetti-Robino's analysis of Boyle contributes not only to debates about Boyle but also to his standing in contemporary philosophy of chemistry -- which is itself a developing subfield in the philosophy of science. As such, it should be required reading for any scholars in the history or philosophy of chemistry.
Recommended.
Marina Banchetti-Robino's The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle argues for a highly plausible and novel interpretation of Boyle that brings out the genius and significance of his chemical philosophy. It is a careful, focused, and well defended scholarly achievement that reminds us of why Boyle is such a dominant figure in early modern philosophy and science. The twin theses of emergentism and mereology in Boyle's account of chemical properties will deservedly become the focus of future discussions of Boyle's ontology, metaphysics, and chemical theory. I highly recommend this volume to all serious students of early modern philosophy and science.
Banchetti-Robino's crisp and informative synthesis pays particular attention to how microstructure-for Boyle a primary mechanical property not of fundamental particles but of corpuscular connections-determines chemical properties...Banchetti-Robino's cogent and accessible book should interest philosophers of chemistry and science as well as historians of early modern natural philosophy.
Banchetti-Robino's cogent and accessible book should interest philosophers of chemistry and science as well as historians of early modern natural philosophy.

Notă biografică

Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. Her work has appeared in Synthese, Husserl Studies, Philosophy East & West, Continental Philosophy Review, The Review of Metaphysics, and Foundations of Chemistry. She is co-editor of The Philosophies of Environment and Technology and of Shifting the Geography of Reason: Science, Gender, and Religion.