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Ask not what philosophy can do for chemistry, but what chemistry can do for philosophy

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Jonathan Simon: Chemistry: The Impure Science. Imperial College Press, London, 2008, xii + 268 pp, UK£37.00 HB

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  1. By way of disclosing potential conflicts of interest, the author of these lines should admit that he is engaged with Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent in a project to elucidate the genesis and ontology of technoscientific objects.

  2. On Bachelard’s metachemistry see Alfred Nordmann, “From Metaphysics to Metachemistry” in Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre (eds.), Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: Springer, 2006, pp. 347–362.

  3. Bachelard, Le Pluralisme cohérent de la chimie moderne, Paris, 1930, pp. 228–229.

  4. Joachim Schummer (1998). “The Chemical Core of Chemistry I: A Conceptual Approach”, Hyle, 4(2): 129–162.

  5. The parallel has been developed by Yeh Brian J., Lim Wendell A. (2007) “Synthetic Biology: Lessons from the history of synthetic organic chemistry”, Nature Chemical Biology, 3: 521–525.

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  1. Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Hasok Chang

  2. Institut für Philosophie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64383, Darmstadt, Germany

    Alfred Nordmann

  3. LEPS-LIRDHIST (EA 4148), Université Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 69622, Villeurbanne cedex, France

    Jonathan Simon

  4. Université Paris X, 200 avenue de la république F, 92001, Nanterre, France

    Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

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Chang, H., Nordmann, A., Bensaude-Vincent, B. et al. Ask not what philosophy can do for chemistry, but what chemistry can do for philosophy. Metascience 19, 373–383 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9391-6

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