Subject: International Conference on Philosophy of Chemistry

From: Eric Scerri <scerri~at~chem.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:42:43 -0700

8th International Conference on Philosophy of Chemistry,
University of Durham,   August 15-19th.

> http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/earleyj/ISPC.html

> Monday 16th August
>
> 9am  Michael Akeroyd
> Bradford College
> Mechanistic Explanation versus Deductive-Nomological Explanation
> Melville Room

> Leo Näpinen
> Tallinn University
> The need for historical understanding of nature in physics and 
> chemistry
> Senior Common Room

> 10am  R.J. Snooks
> University of Toronto
> Another scientific practice separating chemistry from physics: thought 
> experiments
> Melville Room

> Guillermo Restrepo
> Universidad de Pamplona
> Are chemical and physical concepts appropriate to matter 
> classification?
> Senior Common Room

> 11am   Tea and coffee

> 11.30am  David Knight
> University of Durham
> Baconian Induction or Deductive Logic: Chemistry in the early 19th 
> century
> Melville Room

> 12.30pmLunch

> 1.30pm
> Fernanda Madalena, Elisa Maia and Sara Carvalho
> Lisbon University Museum of  Science
> The origin of research schools of chemistry in the 19th Century and 
> the rising of the different areas of chemistry
> Melville Room

> Grant Fisher
> University of Leeds
> Developmental Models in the Early History of 'Pericyclic' Reaction: 
> The Cope and Claisen Rearrangements
> Senior Common Room

> 2.30pm  Nikodem Miranowicz
> Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
> How do we see science? Categories of illustrations in science textbooks
> Melville Room

> Michael Weisberg
> University of Pennsylvania
> Modeling in Chemistry
> Senior Common Room

> 3.30pm   Tea and coffee

> 4pm  Anne Chapman
> University of Lancaster
> Natural and non-natural chemicals
> Melville Room

> Robin Findlay Hendry
> University of Durham
> Elements and other chemical kinds
> Senior Common Room

> 5pm   Wybo Houkes and Pieter Vermaas
> Delft University of Technology
> A functional puzzle in chemistry
> Melville Room

> Valentin N. Ostrovsky
> V. Fock Institute of Physics, St Petersburg State University
> Towards philosophy of approximations in ‘exact’ sciences
> Senior Common Room
>

> Tuesday 17th August
> 9am  Paul Needham
> University of Stockholm
> Processes
> Melville Room

> Ko Hojo
> Process and Place: Structure of Experience and Structure of 
> Consciousness
> Senior Common Room

> 10am  G.K. Vemulapalli
> University of Arizona
> Fugacity: A Uniquely Chemical Concept
> Melville Room

> Slawomir Michalak
> University of Medical Sciences, Poznan
> Ice – 9: two faces of the same metaphor
> Senior Common Room

> 11amTea and coffee11.30am

> Alan Chalmers
> Flinders University
> The status of Daltonian atomism
> Melville Room

> 12.30pmLunch

> 1.30pm  Eric Scerri,  UCLA
> Some questions concerning the theoretical foundations
> of the periodic system and the nature of the elements.
> Melville Room

> Hans Grelland
> Agder University College
> The Philosophy of pH. A deconstructive approach
> Senior Common Room

> 2.30pm Eugen Schwarz
> University of Siegen
> Explanations of the periodic table of chemical elements using concepts 
> of quantum physics: the view of a chemical scientist and quantum 
> theoretician.
> Melville Room

> Magdalen Self and Claus Jacob
> University of Exeter
> The impact factor in chemical research
> Senior Common Room

> 3.30pmTea and coffee

> 4pm Mark R. Leach
> Meta-Synthesis
> Quantum patterns, classical linearities and chemical chaos
> Melville Room

> Paul Bogaard
> Mount Allison University
> “After Substance:”
> How Aristotle's argument still bears on the Philosophy of Chemistry
> Senior Common Room

> 5pm Hrvoj Vancik
> University of Zagreb
> Behind the Limits of Complexity
> Melville Room

> Joseph Earley, Sr.
> Georgetown University
> ‘La Nouvelle Alliance’ — and its Opponents
> Senior Common Room.

> Wednesday 18th August
> 9am  Werner Brandt
> University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
> Nonreductive physicalism and emergentism in chemistry
> Melville Room

> Christina McLeish
> University of Cambridge
> How not to talk about phlogiston: truth in the mouths of past chemists
> Senior Common Room

> 10am  Rein Vihalemm
> University of Tartu
> Understanding the Theory of Chemical Structure and its History
> Melville Room

> Ioannis Votsis
> London School of Economics
> Caloric: Centre or Offstage?
> Senior Common Room11amTea and coffee

> 11.30am  Rom Harré
> University of Oxford
> Activity Concepts in Chemistry: A Philosophico-Historical Examination
> Melville Room

> 12.30pmLunch

> 1.30pm  Jaap van Brakel
> KU Leuven
> Modelling in chemical engineering
> Melville Room3-5pm

> Rare books session, Palace Green Library

> 7pmConference dinner, Hatfield College
>
>
>
Dr. Eric Scerri,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
UCLA,
Los Angeles,
CA 90095- 1569

E-mail scerri~at~chem.ucla.edu

Tel: 310 206 7443

Web Page:  http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/scerri/

Editor of Foundations of Chemistry,
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-4238

Also see International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry
http://www.georgetown.edu/earleyj/ISPC.html