What Is A Chemical Element? A Collection of Essays by Chemists, Philosophers, Historians, and Educators. Edited by Eric Scerri and Elena Ghibaudi. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020, 312 pp. ISBN: 9780190933784, £65.00 [Book Review]

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (3-4):1-4 (2023)
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Compared to its sister disciplines—philosophy of physics and philosophy of biology—philosophy of chemistry remains a relatively young field of philosophical endeavour. Having originated in the late...

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The epistemological status of the chemical concept of element.F. A. Paneth - 1962 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 13 (50):144-160.
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