Philosophy of Chemistry

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Andrea Woody
Professor & Divisional Dean of the Social Sciences

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Woody, Andrea I. “Chemistry’s Periodic Law: Rethinking Representation and Explanation after the Turn to Practice.” In Science After the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science, edited by Lena Soler, Sjoerd Zwart, Michael Lynch, and Vincent Israel-Jost, 123-150. New York: Routledge, 2014.
R. Hendry, P. Needham, and A. Woody, eds. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 6: Philosophy of Chemistry. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2012.
Woody, Andrea I. “Concept Amalgamation and Representation in Quantum Chemistry.” Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 6: Philosophy of Chemistry, edited by R. Hendry, P. Needham, and A. Woody, 427-466. Oxford, England: Elsevier, 2012.
Woody, Andrea I. “Telltale Signs: What Common Explanatory Strategies in Chemistry Reveal about Explanation Itself”, Foundations of Chemistry 6 (2004): 13-43.
Woody, Andrea I. “More Telltale Signs: What Attention to Representation Reveals about Scientific Explanation”, PSA 2002 Proceedings, Philosophy of Science 71 (2004): 780-793.
Woody, Andrea I. “Putting Quantum Mechanics to Work in Chemistry: The Power of Diagrammatic Representation”, Philosophy of Science 67 (Proceedings) (2000): S612-S627.
Woody, Andrea I. and Clark Glymour. “Missing Elements: What Philosophers of Science Might Discover in Chemistry”, Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry, N. Bhushan and S. Rosenfeld, eds. Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 17-33.