Philosophical Remarks

Theoretical Quantum Chemistry as Science and Discipline Some Philosophical Remarks on a Historical Issue... 

Cerruti, L, 1999. Historicaland Philosophical remarks on Ziegler-Natta Catalysts. A Discourse on Industrial Catalysis. HYLE - Intern. J. Phylosophy Chem. 5, 3-41. 

ABSTRACT, A discussion is given of the relative merits of grating spectroscopy, interferometry, and laser spectroscopy. The contributions of classical spectroscopy, particularly to our knowledge of the spectra of free radicals and molecular ions, are briefly summarized. Finally some philosophical remarks are made concerning the accuracy with which molecular constants can be determined for polyatomic molecules in excited electronic states. 

Mitcham, C. (1991) Engineering as Productive Activity Philosophical Remarks. In P. T. Durbin (ed.) Critical Perspectives on Nonacademic Science and Engineering, pp. 80-117. Cranbury, New Jersey, USA, Associated University Presses. 

See [Dicl article Zenon , the Epicurean philosopher, Remark (D), towards the end. 

LOWDIN S REMARKS ON THE AUFBAU PRINCIPLE AND A PHILOSOPHER S VIEW OF AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMISTRY. 

The closet precursor to Mendeleev s table in both chronological and philosophical toms was developed by Julius Lothar Meyer, a German chemist, in 1864. Although Meyer stressed physical rather than chemical properties, his table bears remarkable similarity to the one that Mendeleev would develop five years later. For a number of reasons, Meyer s prominence in tlte history books never matched Mendeleev s. There was an untimely delay in the publication of his most elaborate periodic table, and, perliaps more important, Meyer—unlike Mendeleev—hesitated to make predictions about unknown elements. 

But as philosophers have remarked and courts have ruled, the right to privacy is not absolute. In fact, the place and importance of the right to privacy are still being explored, as the Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) demonstrate. As a result, decisions regarding the right to privacy are very often driven by context. Such may be the case with situations involving computer use, the right to privacy, and pharmaceutical research. 

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. Christ, the Spirit being an attempt to state the primitive view of Christianity / by the author of "Remarks on Alchemy and the alchemists " and "Swedenborg a hermetic philosopher". St Louis (MO) L. Bushnell, for sale by Charles S. Francis and Co., New York, Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Co., Boston and John Penington and son, Philadelphia, 1860. xvi, 375 p. 

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. Remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists, indicating a method of discovering the true nature of Hermetic philosophy and showing that the search after the Philosopher s Stone had not for its object the discovery of an agent for the transmutation of metals. Being also an attempt to rescue from undeserved opprobrium the reputation of a class of extraordinary thinkers in past ages. 2nd ed., 1865 or 1866. 

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. Remarks upon alchymists, and the supposed object of their pursuit showing that the Philosopher s Stone is a mere symbol, signifying something which could not be expressed openly without incurring the danger of an auto de fe. By an Officer of the United States Army. Printed for private circulation. Carlisle (PA) Printed at the Herald Office, 1855. 40p. 

This book recounts the story of the 18 months that the author, a painter and writer, spent in daily contact with the remarkable French philosopher, hermetist and Egyptologist,... 

Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart — the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm — from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices — as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending... 

One bit of evidence that the participants in the controversy over reduction in genetics were not interested in formalism as such is the reaction of these philosophers to the work of Balzer and Dawe (1986). Their paper has disappeared without leaving a ripple. Later workers do not refute it but ignore it. Even though Schaffner is the most formalistically inclined of the philosophers who engaged in this dispute, even he gives Balzer and Dawe short shrift (Schaffner, 1993, p. 426). As Sarkar (1998, p. 29) remarks, One is left to wonder what all this formalism was developed in aid of. 

Let me conclude this chapter with one more remark. When a man looks into a mirror, he sees therein reflected an image of himself. If, however, he try to touch it, he will find that it is not palpable, and that he has laid his hand upon the mirror only. In the same way, the spirit which must be evolved from this Matter is visible, but not palpable. This spirit is the root of the life of our bodies, and the Mercury of the Philosophers, from which is prepared the liquid water of our Art - the water which must once more receive a material form, and be rectified by means of certain purifying agents into the most perfect Medicine. For we begin with a firm and palpable body, which subsequently becomes a volatile spirit, and a golden water, without any conversion, from which our Sages derive their principle of life. Ultimately we obtain the indestructible medicine of human and metallic bodies,... 

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