Schummer, Joachim

Schummer, Joachim. Reattsmus und Chemie Philosophische Untersuchungen der Wissenschaft der Stoffen. Wurzburg Kdnigshausen Neumann, 1996. 

Schummer, Joachim. 1997. Scientometric Studies on Chemistry I The ExpoDeutial Growth of Chemical Substances, 1800-1995. Scientometrics 39(1) 107-123. 

Schummer, Joachim (2003a) The Philosophy of Chemistry Endeavour, 27 37—41. 

Schummer, Joachim (2003b) The Notion of Nature in Chemistry Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 34 705—736. 

Schummer, Joachim, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, and Brigitte Van Ti elen (eds) (2007) The Pubhc Image of Chemistry, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing. 

The roots of molecular beauty can be traced back to the Platonic tradition. To Plato, the most beautiful bodies in the whole realm of bodies were the tiny polyhedra, now deemed the Platonic solids, which he proposed comprise the universe the four elements - earth (cube), fire (tetrahedron), air (octahedron), water (icosahedron) - and the ether (dodecahedron) (Fig. 1). Joachim Schummer, who has written [9] extensively on chemical aesthetics, writes ... 

Lehn in chemistry and Joseph Earley, Eric Scerri, and Joachim Schummer in the philosophy of chemistry are examples of this trend. 

The discipline of chemistry is, in fact, enormous and enormously productive. Joachim Schummer in this volume (Chapter 2) makes the point persuasively and concisely with data on the number of publications in various fields. With a grand total just shy of 900,000 papers indexed in chemical abstracts for the year 2000, chemistry is larger than all of the other natural sciences combined. After Baird suggested to the collected historians in the audience that contemporary chemistry was, in fact, a very active and productive discipline, a historian of mathematics sitting next to him leaned over and skeptically inquired, But what are all those graduate students doing ... 

Our first task is to situate the philosophy of chemistry. Joachim Schummer takes a more optimistic stance than our opening, but still he is struck by the failure until recently of philosophers to attend to chemistry. Given, chemistry s size, importance, and long and fascinating history, this fact cannot be ignored. It cries for explanation. Schummer provides excellent insight into the disciplinary forces that have driven philosophers attention from chemistry. Indeed, remarkably, there is an inverse correlation between the amount of attention paid by philosophers to a field of study and the size of that field of study. Philosophers pay the most attention to their own history— which has the smallest literature—and the least attention to chemistry, which has the largest literature. 

Joachim Schummer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Brigitte Van Tiggelen... 

Two years after the publication of the first results of this project I came across Crichton s article and a manuscript by Joachim Schummer raising the same points vis a vis Crichton. I also owe other information to him that had been unknown to me before (Schummer 2006). 

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