Philosophical Chemistry

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[DeLanda] presents a problem-focused intellectual history of chemistry [...] with extraordinary conceptual clarity.' - International Journal for Philosophy of ChemistryPhilosophical Chemistry furthers DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization, and hybridization throughout the discipline of chemistry. Delanda creates a model of a scientific field capable of accommodating the variation and differentiation evident in the history of scientific practice, made of three components: a domain of phenomena, a community of practitioners, and a set of techniques connecting the community to the domain.