Monte Cairns
Biographic Data
| ID | 8832157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monte Cairns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monte |
| FAMILY NAME | Cairns |
| SIGNATURE | CAIRNS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-0369-8274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reasons to doubt microstructural essentialism about chemical elements
Essentialist theories of natural kinds, widely discredited by philosophers of the life sciences, remain an important focal point in recent philosophy of chemistry. Within that literature, one popular position is that gold, hydrogen, and the other members of the periodic table are observer-independent and objectively delineable kinds, each defined by their essential property of discrete nuclear charge. This is 'microstructural' essentialism about …
Expertise-Objections to the Argument from Inductive Risk
This article distinguishes and critically evaluates a distinctive class of objection to the Argument from Inductive Risk. “Expertise-objections” question the fitness of scientists to engage in moral decision making during research, on grounds of deficiencies in scientists’ relative expertise. Such critiques bring considerations of inductive risk into important dialogue with wider literature from moral philosophy; but, once contextualized therein,…
Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism
The potential reducibility of chemical entities to their physical bases is a matter of dispute between ontological reductionists on one hand, and emergentists on the other. However, relevant debates typically revolve around the reducibility of so-called ‘higher-level’ chemical entities, such as molecules. Perhaps surprisingly, even committed proponents of emergence for these higher-level chemical entities appear to accept that the ‘lowest-level’ …
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Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism
The potential reducibility of chemical entities to their physical bases is a matter of dispute between ontological reductionists on one hand, and emergentists on the other. However, relevant debates typically revolve around the reducibility of so-called ‘higher-level’ chemical entities, such as molecules. Perhaps surprisingly, even committed proponents of emergence for these higher-level chemical entities appear to accept that the ‘lowest-level’ …
Reasons to doubt microstructural essentialism about chemical elements
Essentialist theories of natural kinds, widely discredited by philosophers of the life sciences, remain an important focal point in recent philosophy of chemistry. Within that literature, one popular position is that gold, hydrogen, and the other members of the periodic table are observer-independent and objectively delineable kinds, each defined by their essential property of discrete nuclear charge. This is 'microstructural' essentialism about …
Expertise-Objections to the Argument from Inductive Risk
This article distinguishes and critically evaluates a distinctive class of objection to the Argument from Inductive Risk. “Expertise-objections” question the fitness of scientists to engage in moral decision making during research, on grounds of deficiencies in scientists’ relative expertise. Such critiques bring considerations of inductive risk into important dialogue with wider literature from moral philosophy; but, once contextualized therein,…
History and advancements in chemistry (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Articulation (sociology) (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work) · Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (1 work) · Class (philosophy) (1 work) · Computational Drug Discovery Methods (1 work) · Electronegativity (1 work) · Element (criminal law) (1 work)