What if chemistry had won? : An exercise in counterfactuals from the history of science

 

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Verfasser: Maldonado, Carlos Eduardo
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2025
Beschreibung:This paper is an exercise on counterfactuals. Against the standard history of science, it claims that modern physics was not triumphant, but chemistry. After a characterization of the way in which classical mechanics thinks, this text argues that such a way is harmful, and it provides reasons. In contrast, he fact that modernity and the contemporary world emerged from chemistry shed brand new lights, languages, approaches, and relations on to the world in general. Had chemistry be the paradigm, the world would have been a much better place, indeed.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprache:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/4127
Online Zugang:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rfilosofia/article/view/4127
Stichwort:Philosophy of Science
social science
complexity
Counterfactuals
Modern Physics
Chemistry
possibilities
Filosofía de la ciencia
Contrafácticos
Física clásica
Química
Posibilidades
Ciencias Sociales
Complejidad