Vanessa A. Seifert

Examining how science excludes women and other underrepresented groups

Obvious answers with complex interpretations

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

Searching for the (exact) meaning of life

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

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

Profile at ChemMatters - a magazine of the Americal Chemical Society 

How the Scientific Revolution made it culturally permissible to exploit nature

Co-presented w/ Alexander Franklin

95th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society, Open Session

Foundations of Physics Harvard Series: Talk and Panel Discussion

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

How simplifications help us to better understand the world

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

There is no doubt that chemistry provokes interesting philosophical questions.

Intrumentation and Measurement I Physics World weekly podcast

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

Analysing the practice of chemistry from a feminist perspective

There could be more to learn from ordering the elements

Exploring the world of epistemology

A familiar concept that's difficult to define

How chemistry provides a unique perspective on causation

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

Talk at CEFISES I UCLouvain

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

How an event in chemistry shaped philosophy

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

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

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

Proving that atoms and molecules exist is surprisingly difficult

First article in new column 'Thought Experiments' in Chemistry World, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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

Article at The Conversation

Article at The Conversation