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Here you can find non-academic articles, reviews, interviews & online talks, including my articles published in Jargonium & Chemistry World  

Chemistry World

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A debate about metaphysics that’s crucial to how we understand the world

Interview

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Interview at the Science Me Podcast where I present the basic ideas & questions in philosophy of science (in greek).

Chemistry World

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Supporting a hypothesis is more difficult than it might seem

Chemistry World

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How gender may influence scientific knowledge

Chemistry World

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Ionic, covalent, metallic and more… but there’s debate about whether bonds are real at all

Chemistry World

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Can aesthetics contribute to chemistry?

Chemistry World

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Questioning the purpose of science

Jargonium

Let’s promote a feminist philosophy of chemistry!

Science Experiment

Analysing the practice of chemistry from a feminist perspective

Chemistry World

Does the periodic table reveal laws of nature?

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There could be more to learn from ordering the elements

Chemistry World

How do we know that we know?

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Exploring the world of epistemology

Chemistry World

In search of the chemical bond

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A familiar concept that's difficult to define

Chemistry World

Philosophical mysteries around chemical reactions

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How chemistry provides a unique perspective on causation

Chemistry World

The different shades of sexist science

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How supposedly scientific arguments for the inferiority of women support gender discrimination

Talk

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Talk at CEFISES I UCLouvain

Chemistry World

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The role of background beliefs and assumptions in the development of science

Chemistry World

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How an event in chemistry shaped philosophy

BJPS Short Reads

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A summary co-written with A. Franklin on our joint BJPS paper

Chemistry World

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Empirical evidence is not always sufficient to evaluate the models we use

Chemistry World

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Without realising it, chemists use a range of philosophical tools to probe the world

Chemistry World

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Proving that atoms and molecules exist is surprisingly difficult

Jargonium

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With Karoliina Pulkkinnen and Sarah Hijmans, we created Jargonium; a website that brings the humanities closer to chemistry!

The Conversation

The philosophy of chemistry.. and what it can tell us about life, the universe and everything

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Article at The Conversation

Chemistry World

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It was crucial to the development of chemistry

Talk

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Talk at the Center for the Philosophy of Science and Society at the Université catholique de Louvain

Talk

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Talk (in greek) for the celebration of the 25 years of the Master's program on Chemical Education

Chemistry World

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Appreciating technology’s role in understanding how the world works

Talk

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Talk at the 26th Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry

Chemistry World

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How scientists look into the past, present and future

Chemistry World

Chemistry’s history through the feminist lens

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Examining how science excludes women and other underrepresented groups

Chemistry World

Is water H2O? Is gold Au?

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Obvious answers with complex interpretations

Book Review

In search of the elements

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My review of Philip Ball's book The Elements : a visual history of their discovery.

Chemistry World

Are plants alive?

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Searching for the (exact) meaning of life

Jargonium

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A tribute to a great scholar, co-written w/ James Ladyman

Opinion piece

Open questions on emergence in chemistry

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Open access article in Communications Chemistry, a journal of Nature Portfolio

Interview

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Profile at ChemMatters - a magazine of the Americal Chemical Society 

Chemistry World

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How the Scientific Revolution made it culturally permissible to exploit nature

Talk

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95th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society, Open Session

Talk

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Foundations of Physics Harvard Series: Talk and Panel Discussion

Talk

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Panel Discussion w/ Clare Moriarty, Jessica Wilson & Philip Ball 

Chemistry World

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How simplifications help us to better understand the world

Jargonium

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A short summary of my published paper "The strong emergence of molecular structure"

Jargonium

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There is no doubt that chemistry provokes interesting philosophical questions.

Interview

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Intrumentation and Measurement I Physics World weekly podcast

Book Review

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My review of a collection of articles ed. by E. Scerri & G. Fisher

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