The Scientist’s Atom and the Philosopher’s Stone

1. Atomism: Science or Philosophy?
Alan Chalmers

2. Democritean Atomism
Alan Chalmers

3. How does Epicurus’s Garden Grow?
Alan Chalmers

4. Atomism in its Ancient Greek Perspective
Alan Chalmers

5. From the Ancient Greeks to the Dawn of Science
Alan Chalmers

6. Atomism, Experiment and the Mechanical Philosophy: The Work of Robert Boyle
Alan Chalmers

7. Newton’s Atomism and its Fate
Alan Chalmers

8. The Emergence of Modern Chemistry With No Debt to Atomism
Alan Chalmers

9. Dalton’s Atomism and its Creative Modification via Chemical Formulae
Alan Chalmers

10. From Avogadro to Cannizzaro: The Old Story
Alan Chalmers

11. Thermodynamics and the Kinetic Theory
Alan Chalmers

12. Experimental Contact with Molecules
Alan Chalmers

13. Experimental Contact with Electrons
Alan Chalmers

14. Atomism Vindicated?
Alan Chalmers

Avainsanat: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, History of Philosophy, History of Physics, Metaphysics