Theories and models: an approach from quantum chemistry

HERNÁN ACCORINTI; JUAN CAMILO MARTÍNEZ GONZÁLEZ

Lausanne

Congreso; 6th meeting of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences; 2016

Université de Lausanne

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; }p.western { font-size: 12pt; }p.cjk { font-size: 12pt; }p.ctl { font-size: 12pt; }The purpose of the present paper is, first, to analyze the discussions around the London brothers´ model from a critical viewpoint. Our aim is to show that the debate has reached a kind of dead end as the consequence of disagreements about the interpretation of the very notion of independence and its role in the constitution of scientific models. Second,we intend to contribute to find a way out of the dead end by appealing to a new example, not yet sufficiently discussed in the current literature: the case of the molecular models used in quantum chemistry. Those models integrate two incompatible theoretical domains: quantum and classical.