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  1. Reducing Chemistry to Physics: Limits, Models, Consequences.Hinne Hettema - 2012 - Createspace.
    Chemistry and physics are two sciences that are hard to connect. Yet there is significant overlap in their aims, methods, and theoretical approaches. In this book, the reduction of chemistry to physics is defended from the viewpoint of a naturalised Nagelian reduction, which is based on a close reading of Nagel's original text. This naturalised notion of reduction is capable of characterising the inter-theory relationships between theories of chemistry and theories of physics. The reconsideration of reduction also leads to a (...)
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    The Union of Chemistry and Physics.Hinne Hettema - 2017 - New York: Springer.
    This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines. The author uses structuralist approach to explore the overlap between the two sciences, looking at their theoretical and ontological borrowings as well as their continuity. -/- The starting point of this book is that there is at least a form of unity between chemistry and physics, where the reduction relation is conceived as a special (...)
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  3. (1 other version)The periodic table — its formalization, status, and relation to atomic theory.Hinne Hettema & Theo A. F. Kuipers - 1988 - Erkenntnis 28 (3):387-408.
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    Linking chemistry with physics: a reply to Lombardi.Hinne Hettema - 2014 - Foundations of Chemistry 16 (3):193-200.
    In this paper I reply to Olimpia Lombardi’s comment on my recent book Reducing Chemistry to Physics: Limits, Models, Consequences.
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  5. Austere quantum mechanics as a reductive basis for chemistry.Hinne Hettema - 2012 - Foundations of Chemistry 15 (3):311-326.
    This paper analyses Richard Bader’s ‘operational’ view of quantum mechanics and the role it plays in the the explanation of chemistry. I argue that QTAIM can partially be reconstructed as an ‘austere’ form of quantum mechanics, which is in turn committed to an eliminative concept of reduction that stems from Kemeny and Oppenheim. As a reductive theory in this sense, the theory fails. I conclude that QTAIM has both a regulatory and constructive function in the theories of chemistry.
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    Bohr's theory of the atom 1913–1923: A case study in the progress of scientific research programmes.Hinne Hettema - 1995 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 26 (3):307-323.
  7. Explanation and theory formation in quantum chemistry.Hinne Hettema - 2009 - Foundations of Chemistry 11 (3):145-174.
    In this paper I expand Eric Scerri’s notion of Popper’s naturalised approach to reduction in chemistry and investigate what its consequences might be. I will argue that Popper’s naturalised approach to reduction has a number of interesting consequences when applied to the reduction of chemistry to physics. One of them is that it prompts us to look at a ‘bootstrap’ approach to quantum chemistry, which is based on specific quantum theoretical theorems and practical considerations that turn quantum ‘theory’ into quantum (...)
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  8. Sommerfeld's Atombau: a case of potential truth approximation.Hinne Hettema & Theo A. F. Kuipers - 1995 - In Hinne Hettema & Theo A. F. Kuipers (eds.), Cognitive Patterns in Science and Common Sense: Groningen Studies in Philosophy of Science, Logic and Epistemology.
     
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  9. Sommerfeld’s A tombau : a case study in potential truth approximation.Hinne Hettema & Theo A. F. Kuipers - 1995 - In Hinne Hettema & Theo A. F. Kuipers (eds.), Sommerfeld's Atombau: a case of potential truth approximation. Poznan. pp. 273-297.
     
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    Quantum Chemistry: Classical Scientific Papers.Hinne Hettema - 2000 - World Scientific.
    J. Quantum Chemistry, 2000"It will have a lasting value for theoretical chemists and science historians".Structural Chemistry, 2000" is a finely produced, ...
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  11. Is quantum chemistry a degenerating research programme?Hinne Hettema - 2007 - Logic and Philosophy of Science 6 (1):3-23.
    This note is intended to address one particular issue in the relative status of Quantum Chemistry in comparison to both Chemistry and Physics. It has been suggested, in the context of the question of the reduction relations between Chemistry and Physics that Quantum Chemistry as a research programme is incapable of furnishing useful guidance to practising chemists. If true, this claim will let us qualify Quantum Chemistry as a degenerating research programme, which, due to its complexity has difficulty to be (...)
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  12. Cognitive Patterns in Science and Common Sense: Groningen Studies in Philosophy of Science, Logic and Epistemology.Hinne Hettema & Theo A. F. Kuipers - 1995
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    The Unity of Chemistry and Physics: Absolute Reaction Rate Theory.Hinne Hettema - 2012 - Hyle 18 (2):145 - 173.
    Henry Eyring's absolute rate theory explains the size of chemical reaction rate constants in terms of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and quantum chemistry. In addition it uses a number of unique concepts such as the 'transition state'. A key feature of the theory is that the explanation it provides relies on the comparison of reaction rate constant expressions derived from these individual theories. In this paper, the example is used to develop a naturalized notion of reduction and the unity of science. (...)
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  14. Mendeleev's periodic table: Some remarks on its reduction.Hinne Hettema - 1988 - In Proceedings of the 13 Th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Hpt. pp. 210-213.
     
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    Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres, John Symons, and Shadid Rahman, eds. , Special Sciences and the Unity of Science . Reviewed by.Hinne Hettema - 2013 - Philosophy in Review 33 (4):315-317.
  16. Proceedings of the 13 Th International Wittgenstein Symposium.Hinne Hettema - 1988 - Hpt.
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    QTAIM as a research programme: a reply to Shahbazian. [REVIEW]Hinne Hettema - 2013 - Foundations of Chemistry 15 (3):335-341.
    In this paper I briefly reply to Shant Shahbazian’s comments on my paper “Austere quantum mechanics as a reductive basis for chemistry” and argue that quantum theory of atoms in molecules can be characterised as a research programme in the theories of chemistry. I also explore the areas in which Shahbazian and me agree and disagree.
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  18. A note on Michael Weisberg’s: Challenges to the Structural Conception of Chemical Bonding. [REVIEW]Hinne Hettema - 2008 - Foundations of Chemistry 10 (2):135-142.
    Weisberg’s recent paper on the chemical bond makes the claim that the chemical notion of the covalent bond is in trouble. This note casts doubts on that claim.
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