期刊名称：Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN：1433-5158
出版年度：2005
卷号：11
期号：1
页码：97-99
出版社：HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要：It is not news to observe that philoso-phy of science, as a field, has been ob-sessed with theory throughout the 20th century. While it is true that we have re-cently seen something called the New Experimentalists emerge, they are few and even then the extent to which they are focused on real live experiments in their social and historical messiness is often not clear. This lack of concern with what goes on in the laboratory from epistemological and even meta-physical perspectives leave philosophers of chemistry in something of a quan-dary, for chemistry is not a field overly concerned with theory and the kinds of experiments chemists engage in appear, at least on the surface, to differ in sig-nificant ways from those of, say, biolo-gists. Chemists are often interested in creating new substances with interesting and exploitable properties and they do so using a variety of instruments
