化学的结构、本质与存在

IF 0.6 4区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

Ratio Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI:10.1111/rati.12387

R. Hendry

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摘要

哲学家们经常争论关于化学物质的微观结构本质主义的真理：一种化学物质在分子尺度上的结构是否是它成为物质的原因。奇怪的是，他们倾向于在不确定什么是结构的情况下进行这场争论，并对什么是化学物质感到困惑。在这篇论文中，我利用化学来纠正这些遗漏，提供了对结构的多元解释，澄清了什么是化学物质（根据化学），并捍卫了微观结构本质主义，正如我所理解的那样。然后我介绍了化学中复合物质和物体的存在，这个问题可以追溯到亚里士多德。

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Structure, essence and existence in chemistry

Philosophers have often debated the truth of microstructural essentialism about chemical substances: whether or not the structure of a chemical substance at the molecular scale is what makes it the substance it is. Oddly they have tended to pursue this debate without identifying what a structure is, and with some confusion and about what a chemical substance is. In this paper I draw on chemistry to rectify those omissions, providing a pluralist account of structure, clarifying what (according to chemistry) a chemical substance is and defending microstructural essentialism, as I understand that position. I then give an account of the existence of composite substances and objects in chemistry, an issue that goes back to Aristotle.

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