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/Subject (This paper starts from the premise that the philosophy of chemistry needs to be primarily a philosophy of action. Its main task is to reflect on what chemists do, in their actual practice; not to bother with an ontological straw-man, the fictional derivation from physics. As an autonomous science, chemis-try has its own iconic language. Do diagrams, structural formulas, molecular models, and their mental images draw upon tacit knowledge? To a chemist, in-tent upon thinking about his current molecular object, can they assume an ob-sessive and even hallucinatory quality? The paper reflects on chemists charac-teristic schizovision, encompassing the microscopic entities and their actual operations in the laboratory, in an incessant shuttling back-and-forth. It also stresses the distinction between tacit knowledge, an ineffectual notion, and implicit meanings, which a chemist is trained into interpreting and decoding. In addressing these questions, the paper draws on seminal ideas of C.S. Peirce, M. Polanyi, and G. Bachelard.)
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Chemistry, Knowledge Through Actions?
Pierre Laszlo
philosophy of chemistry, hands-on knowledge, formulas, know-how, polysemy
This paper starts from the premise that the philosophy of chemistry needs to be primarily a philosophy of action. Its main task is to reflect on what chemists do, in their actual practice; not to bother with an ontological straw-man, the fictional derivation from physics. As an autonomous science, chemis-try has its own iconic language. Do diagrams, structural formulas, molecular models, and their mental images draw upon tacit knowledge? To a chemist, in-tent upon thinking about his current molecular object, can they assume an ob-sessive and even hallucinatory quality? The paper reflects on chemists’ charac-teristic schizovision, encompassing the microscopic entities and their actual operations in the laboratory, in an incessant shuttling back-and-forth. It also stresses the distinction between tacit knowledge, an ineffectual notion, and implicit meanings, which a chemist is trained into interpreting and decoding. In addressing these questions, the paper draws on seminal ideas of C.S. Peirce, M. Polanyi, and G. Bachelard.
HYLE – International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, Vol. 20 (2014), 93-116.
Copyright 2014 by HYLE and Pierre Laszlo.
http://www.hyle.org
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