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92Critical rationalism in the test tube? Lecture given at the ''international summer school on the philosophy of chemistry and biochemistry'', Bradford & ilkley community college, 11. – 14. july 1994 (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2): 297-305. 1997.Popper's critical rationalism is widely accepted under scientists and philosophers of science as a proper method for the reconstruction of scientific theories. On occasion of the application of the Popperian ideas for the reconstruction of chemistry by Akeroyd the flaws of the critical rationalist approach are criticised and a methodical alternative is proposed, involving the operational definition of scientific terms.
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23What has philosophy to offer to chemistry?Foundations of Science 3 (1): 183-202. 1998.The paper asks about the reasons for the neglect of chemistry in modern philosophy of science and investigates in how far this science can be the object of an autonomous philosophical reflection. It is argued that from a culturalistic point of view chemistry indeed offers a field of interesting questions ranging from the reconstruction of its epistemological objects to the elucidation of the semantic functions of terms like "atom" or "molecule". It is further argued that the philosophical reflec…Read more
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6Merkmal, Leistung oder Anerkennung? Drei Betrachtungen der PersonalitätIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 19-38. 2007.
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12Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der PersonTranscript Verlag. 2007.
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7Things, stuffs, and coincidence. A non-ontological point of viewHyle 7 (1). 2001.In this article the problem of the so-called 'coinciding objects', i.e. the question whether a substantially homogeneous thing is something ontologically different from the corresponding 'piece of stuff' it is made of or not, is examined from a pragmatical and language-analytical point of view. Instead of recurring to ontological assertions, I propose to regard 'stuffs' or 'substances' as a mode of speaking about things that fulfil the condition of being homogeneous in respect to a certain kind …Read more
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