[Todos] What is chemistry?

[Sebastian "el fune" Fortin]

Hola, evio informacion de dos charlas que pueden ser del interes de varios.

Charla 1:

Charla: Martes 13 de Marzo a las 17:30 hs.
Aula de Seminario, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química
Física
Pabellón 2, Ciudad Universitaria.

What is chemistry?
Klaus Ruthenberg, Faculty of Science, Coburg University of Applied Sciences
and Arts, Germany
We will follow the main question of the present lecture from different
perspectives. The first perspective is to consider the definitions chemists
give their own discipline. These definitions, like all scientific notions
and concepts, underlie historical changes. Those changes – as well as what
remains unchanged– will be presented, discussed, and correlations between
definitions and general concepts will be explored.
The second perspective refers to the notion of stuff. Undoubtedly this
notion is a central one in the chemical sciences. We will draw a short but
wide historical bow from the ideas of the pre-Socratics
(four-element-theory) to modern quantum chemistry (orbitals). As central
example we will use water.
The final point of our discussion will take into account the question why
chemistry as a huge and very successful scientific and industrial
enterprise has been neglected by the philosophy of science. Some possible
attempts of explanation will be collected and analyzed.


Charla 2:

Conferencia: lunes 12 de Marzo a las 18 hs.
SADAF (Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico)
Bulnes 642, Ciudad de Buenos Aires

What is water?
Klaus Ruthenberg
Faculty of Science, Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
Miembro del Comité Ejecutivo de la International Society for the Philosophy
of Chemistry

The debates over how to characterize water, this presumably well-known if
not best-known of all substances, still continue. Whereas most chemists
don´t seem to care about the epistemological and ontological fundaments of
their own discipline on the one hand and at the same time use a bunch of
very different empirical and theoretical approaches to describe stuff on
the other, philosophers and historians of chemistry take the question in
the headline very serious.
The present contribution tries to shed some light on these on-going
discussions. The views of the following three philosophers will be
investigated in particular: Jaap van Brakel, Joachim Schummer, and Jens
Soentgen.
In addition to some results of the (primarily analytical) Is-water-H2O
debate it shall be shown that the philosophical approaches discussed here
seem similar in at least one point: the claim of the primacy of the
scientific image in those central discourses of modern philosophy of
chemistry is put aside if not rejected. That means the old empiricist claim
of the primacy of observation and experience in science becomes virulent
through the philosophy of chemistry.



Saludos, sebi
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