Paulo Alves Porto

• Pittcon 2019, AR.EXT

• Abstract

  The project aims at analyzing the historical content of chemistry textbooks, against the theoretical background offered by the new historiography of science. A comprehensive approach is proposed, by not restricting the analysis to a specific topic of the history of chemistry, but aiming at the historiographical conceptions which underlie the historical inserts found in chemistry textbooks…

  An assessment of the history of science content of chemistry textbooks, AP.R
• The development of dalton s atomic theory: lessons to be learned, AR.EXT

• Abstract

  This project aims at analyzing the approaches to the concept of valence in university-level general chemistry textbooks published in the USA along the first decades of the twentieth century. A historical case study about the development of the concept of valence from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century will be made, followed by investigation of the presence of the conc…

  The concept of valence in university-level general chemistry textbooks in the twentieth century, BP.MS

• Abstract

  Peculiar features of chemistry are investigated by both chemical education and philosophy of chemistry research areas. A preliminary study, developed in our master's dissertation, showed that experimentation and its relation to chemical realism are remarkable features of chemistry according to the ten chemistry doctoral students that were interviewed. From such investigation, other questi…

  Peculiar ways of thinking, doing and understanding chemistry: in search of indicators around science experimentation, BP.DR

• Abstract

  The philosophy of chemistry as an autonomous, institutionalized area of philosophy of science is a discipline with less than two decades of existence. Despite its recent rise, since the 1990s approximately 700 articles and 40 monographs have been produced in philosophy of chemistry, making it the fastest growing area within the philosophy of science in recent years. One of the topics disc…

  The concept of orbital in university-level general chemistry textbooks in the twentieth century, BP.MS

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• Abstract

  This project aims at investigating college-level, general chemistry textbooks published in the United States in the twentieth century. Textbooks play an important role in the education of scientists, teachers and college-level lecturers. Moreover, textbooks were chosen as research subjects since they are an expression of a "disciplinary consensus" established within a given area, beyond t…

  Twentieth-century general chemistry textbooks: a diachronic investigation of selected contents, BE.PQ