Vanessa A. Seifert

Chemistry World: Great Expectations: How values influence decisions in chemistry

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Discussion @ the Forum of Philosophy: A Theory of Everything?

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Chemistry World: Puzzles in Chemistry ...and how philosophy helps solve them

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ChemistryWorld: Idealisations to the Rescue

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Second article in Chemistry World: Are chemical entities real?

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Essay in Jargonium: Strong Emergence in Chemistry

(October 2020) This essay is a short summary of my recently published paper ‘The Strong Emergence of Molecular Structure’.

Launch of column "Thought Experiment" in Chemistry World- 1st piece: Why do we still do chemistry?

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(September 2020) Chemistry world, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry, is launching a new column on philosophy called "Thought Experiments". In the column, I will explore some of the central issues that are addressed in philosophy of chemistry and more broadly. In the first piece "Why do we still do chemistry?" I ask whether quantum mechanics is making the subject of chemistry obsolete.

Essay in Jargonium: 

Philosophy of chemistry- is that a thing???!!

(June 2020) Philosophy of chemistry – that is a thing! Whether one thinks of it as a separate field of philosophy or as a sub-discipline within the more general philosophy of science, there is no doubt that chemistry provokes interesting philosophical questions.

Jargonium: a new website about everything related to chemistry

Together with Karoliina Pulkkinnen and Sarah Hijmans, we have created 'Jargonium', a website that aims to bring the humanities closer to chemistry!

Pod Cast Interview in Physics World

Article in The Conversation, 2020

Article in The Conversation, 2016