CEFISES Seminar: Vanessa Seifert, “Chemical Bonds are Real Patterns”

Series: Metaphysics of Science Abstract: There is a persisting debate about what chemical bonds are and whether they exist. I argue that chemical bonds are real patterns of interactions between subatomic particles. This proposal resolves the problems raised in the context of existing understandings of the chemical bond and provides a novel way to defend the reality of chemical bonds.