Chemistry as a system of practices. An alternative for your teaching

Authors

  • José Antonio Chamizo Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, México

Keywords:

Chemical practices, chemical substance, analysis, synthesis, chemical entities.

Abstract

Chemistry is a system of scientific and technological practices, experimental, stabilized and taught in the same way in most countries. Throughout their history, fiercely realistic chemical communities were integrating entities (atoms, ions, orbitals) that allowed them to pragmatically explain their own practices. Different from those of physics, the practices of chemistry have their own method: analysis and synthesis, often in a dialectical combination. As a result of their practices, chemical communities add more than 15,000 new substances to the world every day, constituting a supernatural nature.

Author Biography

José Antonio Chamizo, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, México

Doctor en química organometálica por la University of Sussex. Desde 1977 es profesor de la Facultad de Química y del Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ha publicado más de 200 artículos, capítulos en libros y libros arbitrados, sobre química, educación, historia, filosofía y divulgación de las ciencias por los que ha
recibido diferentes premios de instituciones nacionales e internacionales.

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Issue

No. 29 (2021)

Section

Monografia: Filosofia de la química

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