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Eric R. Scerri Editorial 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Peter H. Plesch On the Distinctness of Chemistry . . . . 6--15
G. Krishna Vemulapalli and
Henry Byerly Remnants of Reductionism . . . . . . . . 17--41
Alan L. Mackay From ``The Dialectics of Nature'' to the
Inorganic Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56
Lee McIntyre The Emergence of the Philosophy of
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63
Robert J. Good Why are Chemists `Turned Off' by
Philosophy of Science? . . . . . . . . . 65--95
Anonymous Call for papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Instructions for authors . . . . . . . . 99--106
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--109
J. van Brakel On the Neglect of the Philosophy of
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--174
Robert M. Richman The Use of One-Electron Quantum Numbers
to Describe Polyelectronic Systems . . . 173--181
Robert J. Good Why are Chemists `Turned Off' by
Philosophy of Science? . . . . . . . . . 185--215
Bo G. Malmström Book Review: Athel Cornish-Bowden, ed.,
\booktitleEduard Buchner and the Growth
of Biochemical Knowledge . . . . . . . . 217--219
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
Pierre Laszlo Circulation of Concepts . . . . . . . . 225--238
Hrvoj VanCik Opus Magnum: An Outline for the
Philosophy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . 239--254
Daniel Rothbart On the Relationship Between Instrument
and Specimen in Chemical Research . . . 255--268
Roger Strand Towards a Useful Philosophy of
Biochemistry: Sketches and Examples . . 269--292
Richard D. Harcourt The Atomic Shell-Structure Formula $ 2
n^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Eric R. Scerri A Critique of Atkins' Periodic Kingdom
and Some Writings on Electronic
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--303
William R. Everdell Book Review: 25 Centuries of Atoms and
Void. Pullman, Bernard, \booktitleThe
Atom in the History of Human Thought,
translated by Axel R. Reisinger . . . . 305--309
Anonymous Authors index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Volume contents . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Davis Baird Encapsulating Knowledge: The Direct
Reading Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . 5--46
John G. McEvoy In Search of the Chemical Revolution:
Interpretive Strategies in the History
of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--73
Robert K. Nesbet Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Eric Scerri Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Jeffry L. Ramsey Book Review: Joachim Schummer,
\booktitleRealismus und Chemie:
Philosophische Untersuchungen der
Wissenschaft von den Stoffen . . . . . . 79--84
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
F. Michael Akeroyd The Foundations of Modern Organic
Chemistry: The Rise of the Highes and
Ingold Theory from 1930--1942 . . . . . 99--125
Paul Needham Atomic Notation and Atomistic Hypotheses
Translated by Paul Needham . . . . . . . 127--180
Jack Morrel Book Review: D. M. Knight and H. Kragh
(eds.): \booktitleThe Making of the
Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry
in Europe, 1789--1914 . . . . . . . . . 181--185
Anonymous Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194
Theodor Benfey Reflections on the Philosophy of
Chemistry and a Rallying Call for Our
Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205
Jeffrey Kovac Professionalism and Ethics in Chemistry 207--219
R. Bruce King The Role of Mathematics in the
Experimental/Theoretical/Computational
Trichotomy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . 221--236
P. H. A. Sneath Numerical Classification of the Chemical
Elements and Its Relation to the
Periodic System . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--263
Anonymous Authors Index Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . 265--265
Anonymous Contents of Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Ursula Klein Berzelian Formulas as Paper Tools in
Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry . . . 7--32
Niall Shanks Modeling Biological Systems: The
Belousov--Zhabotinsky Reaction . . . . . 33--53
Michael Chayut From the Periphery: the genesis of
Eugene P. Wigner's application of group
theory to quantum mechanics . . . . . . 55--78
Stathis Psillos Studies in Scientific Realism . . . . . 79--86
Anonymous The International Society for the
Philosophy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . 87--88
Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 89--96
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 8 --- Special Issue on the
Periodic System of the Elements . . . . 97--104
Carmen J. Giunta Argon and the Periodic System: the Piece
that Would not Fit . . . . . . . . . . . 105--128
Helge Kragh The First Subatomic Explanations of the
Periodic System . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143
V. N. Ostrovsky What and How Physics Contributes to
Understanding the Periodic Law . . . . . 145--181
Eric R. Scerri and
Jacob Edwards Bibilography of Secondary Sources on the
Periodic System of the Chemical Elements 183--195
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Charles Seibert Charley Peirce's Head Start in Chemistry 201--226
S. Le Vent What is a Perfect Gas Mixture? . . . . . 227--239
Nikos Psarros The Lame and the Blind, or how much
Physics does Chemistry Need? . . . . . . 241--249
J. van Brakel The World: An Unruly Mess . . . . . . . 251--262
Jeffry L. Ramsey Hegel's Philosophy of Nature . . . . . . 263--268
Pierre Laszlo A Sketch of a Program . . . . . . . . . 269--271
Anonymous Authors Index Volume 3 . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Anonymous Contents of Volume 3 . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Klaus Hentschel Why Not One More Imponderable? John
William Draper's Tithonic Rays . . . . . 5--59
Robert C. Kerber Markovnikov's Rule in History and
Pedagogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--72
Mary Jo Nye Book Review: Nalini Bhushan and Stuart
Rosenfeld, eds: \booktitleOf Minds and
Molecules: New Philosophical
Perspectives on Chemistry . . . . . . . 73--77
Harry E. Pence Book Review: A. Lundgren and B.
Bensaude-Vincent, eds:
\booktitleCommunicating Chemistry:
Textbooks and their Audiences,
1789--1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--81
Anonymous Call for Papers (1) . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Call for Papers (2) . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 85--92
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
Claus Jacob Philosophy and Biochemistry: Research at
the Interface between Chemistry and
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--125
Nathan M. Brooks Developing the Periodic Law: Mendeleev's
Work During 1869--1871 . . . . . . . . . 127--147
Pedro Cintas On the Origin of Tetrahedral Carbon: A
Case for Philosophy of Chemistry? . . . 149--161
Jeffrey Kovac Theoretical and Practical Reasoning in
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171
Fernando J. Luna Book Review: Pierre Laszlo:
\booktitleMiroir de la Chimie . . . . . 173--177
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182
Pier Luigi Luisi Emergence in Chemistry: Chemistry as the
Embodiment of Emergence . . . . . . . . 183--200
Mark Eberhart Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Design
in the Twenty First Century . . . . . . 201--211
Rosária S. Justi and
John K. Gilbert Philosophy of chemistry in university
chemical education: The case of models
and modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--240
John E. Bloor Book Review: Ronald J. Gillespie and
Paul L. A. Popelier: \booktitleChemical
Bonding and Molecular Geometry: From
Lewis to Electron Densities . . . . . . 241--247
Anonymous Author Index Volume 4 . . . . . . . . . 249--249
Anonymous Contents of Volume 4 . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 253--260
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
R. Vihalemm Are Laws of Nature and Scientific
Theories Peculiar in Chemistry?
Scrutinizing Mendeleev's Discovery . . . 7--22
Markus Reiher A Systems Theory for Chemistry . . . . . 23--41
Keith S. Taber The Atom in the Chemistry Curriculum:
Fundamental Concept, Teaching Model or
Epistemological Obstacle? . . . . . . . 43--84
Michael Akeroyd Predictions, Retrodictions and the
Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88
George B. Kauffman and
Laurie M. Kauffman Book Review: Carl Djerassi: \booktitleAn
Immaculate Misconception: Sex in an Age
of Mechanical Reproduction . . . . . . . 89--91
Jeffry L. Ramsey U. Klein (ed.): Tools and Modes of
Representation in the Laboratory
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--97
Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 99--106
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
F. A. Paneth The epistemological status of the
chemical concept of element . . . . . . 113--145
Markus Reiher The systems-theoretical view of chemical
concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--163
John R. Christie and
Maureen Christie Chemical Laws and Theories: A Response
to Vihalemm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--174
Jeffry L. Ramsey Book Review: P. J. T. Morris and O. T.
Benfey (eds.): \booktitleRobert Burns
Woodward: Architect and Artist in the
World of Molecules (History of Modern
Chemical Sciences Series) . . . . . . . 175--178
habil. Klaus Hentschel The Instrumental Revolution in Chemistry 179--183
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--188
Masanori Kaji Mendeleev's Discovery of the Periodic
Law: The Origin and the Reception . . . 189--214
Tami I. Spector The Aesthetics of Molecular
Representation: From the Empirical to
the Constitutive . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--236
Hrvoj Vancik Philosophy of Chemistry and Limits of
Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--247
Shawn B. Allin Book Review: Cathy Cobb:
\booktitleMagick, Mayhem, and Mavericks:
The Spirited History of Physical
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252
Paul Needham Book Review: Maureen Christie:
\booktitleThe Ozone Layer. A Philosophy
of Science Perspective . . . . . . . . . 253--261
Anonymous Author Index Volume 5 . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Anonymous Contents of Volume 5 . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 267--273
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Nalini Bhushan Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--9
Roald Hoffmann Theoretical Chemistry . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Andrea I. Woody Telltale Signs: What Common Explanatory
Strategies in Chemistry Reveal about
Explanation Itself . . . . . . . . . . . 13--43
Stephen J. Weininger Response to ``Telltale Signs: What
Common Explanatory Strategies in
Chemistry Reveal About Explanation
Itself'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
Heather Douglas Prediction, Explanation, and Dioxin
Biochemistry: Science in Public Policy 49--63
Kenneth B. Wiberg Strain, Structure, Stability and
Reactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--80
Jeffry L. Ramsey Straining to Explain Strain and
Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91
Eric R. Scerri Just how ab initio is ab initio quantum
chemistry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--116
Bretislav Friedrich \ldots hasn't it? A commentary on Eric
Scerri's Paper ``Has Quantum Mechanics
Explained the Periodic Table?'' . . . . 117--132
Anonymous Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
M. D. Eddy Elements, Principles and the Narrative
of Affinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--175
Pierre Laszlo Book Review: \booktitleMapping the
Spectrum. Techniques of Visual
Representation in Research and Teaching 177--189
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez Book Review: \booktitleLavoisier in
Italia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--195
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--197
Joseph E. Earley Would Introductory Chemistry Courses
Work Better with a New Philosophical
Basis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--160
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--201
Robert J. Deltete and
Anastasios Brenner Book Review: \booktitlePierre Duhem:
Mixture and Chemical Combination and
Related Essays. Edited and translated,
with an Introduction, by Paul Needham 203--232
Paul Needham Mixture and Chemical Combination and
Related Essays: A Response to Robert
Deltete and Anastasios Brenner . . . . . 233--245
George B. Kauffman and
Laurie M. Kauffman Book Review: Fred Basolo: \booktitleFrom
Coello to Inorganic Chemistry: A
Lifetime of Reactions . . . . . . . . . 247--250
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Author Index Volume 6 . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Contents of Volume 6 . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 259--265
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 19 Special Issue on
Philosophical Problems of Chemical Kinds 1--4
Rom Harré Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Rom Harré Chemical Kinds and Essences Revisited 7--30
Robin Findlay Hendry Lavoisier and Mendeleev on the Elements 31--48
Joseph Simonian The Paradoxes of Chemical
Classification: Why `water is H$_2$O' is
Not an Identity Statement . . . . . . . 49--56
J. van Brakel On the inventors of XYZ . . . . . . . . 57--84
Joseph E. Earley Why there is No Salt in the Sea . . . . 85--102
Paul Needham Mixtures and Modality . . . . . . . . . 103--118
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--123
Olimpia Lombardi and
Martín Labarca The Ontological Autonomy of the Chemical
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--148
Torsten Wilholt Explaining Models: Theoretical and
Phenomenological Models and Their Role
for the First Explanation of the
Hydrogen Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . 149--169
Rein Vihalemm Chemistry and a Theoretical Model of
Science: On the Occasion of a Recent
Debate with the Christies . . . . . . . 171--182
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Fathi Habashi:
\booktitleFrom Alchemy to Atomic Bombs:
History of Chemistry, Metallurgy, and
Civilization. Métallurgie Extractive
Québec: 800 rue Alain #504, Sainte Foy,
Québec, Canada G1X 4E7, 2002; distributed
by Laval University Bookstore ``Zone'':
Cité Universitaire, Sainte Foy, Québec,
Canada G1K 7P4, viii + 357 pp,
Can.\$70.00; U.S.\$50.00; plus postage
(hardbound); ISBN 2-922686-00-0 . . . . 183--186
Robin Findlay Hendry Book Review: Jaap van Brakel:
\booktitlePhilosophy of Chemistry:
Between the Manifest and the Scientific
Image Leuven, University Press, Leuven,
2000, xiv + 246 pp., ISBN 90-5867-063-5 187--197
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
Michael Laing A Revised Periodic Table: With the
Lanthanides Repositioned . . . . . . . . 203--233
V. N. Ostrovsky On Recent Discussion Concerning Quantum
Justification of the Periodic Table of
the Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--239
Octavio Novaro Activity of Closed $d$-Shells in Noble
Metal Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--268
M. Kidwai and
R. Mohan Green Chemistry: An Innovative
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--287
A. T. Balaban Reflections About Mathematical Chemistry 289--306
A. Korobov Simple Chemical Reactions in the Solid
State: Towards Elaborating a Conception 307--314
Carmen Giunta Book Review: Michael D. Gordin:
\booktitleA Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii
Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic
Table, Basic Books, New York, 2004, 364
+ xx pp., ISBN 0-465-02775-X, \$30} . . 315--319
Harry E. Pence Book Review: Mark Albert:
\booktitleGalen's Lectures: A Novel
About Chemistry, Xlibris Corporation,
2000, 493 pp. (ISBN 0-7388-4196-X) . . . 321--324
Anonymous Author Index Volume 7 . . . . . . . . . 325--325
Anonymous Contents of Volume 7 . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Anonymous Instructions For Authors . . . . . . . . 331--337
Eric Scerri Editorial 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Ross L. Stein A Process Theory of Enzyme Catalytic
Power- the Interplay of Science and
Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29
Lawrence J. Sacks Concerning the Position of Hydrogen in
the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
Shant Shahbazian and
Mansour Zahedi The Role of Observables and
Non-observables in Chemistry: A Critique
of Chemical Language . . . . . . . . . . 37--52
Joachim Schummer Gestalt Switch in Molecular Image
Perception: The Aesthetic Origin of
Molecular Nanotechnology in
Supramolecular Chemistry . . . . . . . . 53--72
Paul Needham Ontological Reduction: a Comment on
Lombardi and Labarca . . . . . . . . . . 73--80
Olimpia Lombardi and
Martín Labarca The ontological autonomy of the chemical
world: a response to Needham . . . . . . 81--92
Eric Scerri Editorial 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
Jay A. Labinger Organized Skepticism, Na\"\ive
Methodism, and Other-isms . . . . . . . 97--110
Donald J. Wink Connections Between Pedagogical and
Epistemological Constructivism:
Questions for Teaching and Research in
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--151
Kevin C. de Berg The Status of Constructivism in Chemical
Education Research and Its Relationship
to the Teaching and Learning of the
Concept of Idealization in Chemistry . . 153--176
Liberato Cardellini The Foundations of Radical
Constructivism: An Interview with Ernst
von Glasersfeld . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--187
Keith S. Taber Constructivism's New Clothes: The
Trivial, the Contingent, and a
Progressive Research Programme into the
Learning of Science . . . . . . . . . . 189--219
Eric Scerri Editorial 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
M. F. Sharlow Chemical elements and the problem of
universals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--242
Leslie S. Forster Chromium Photophysics- A Prototypical
Case History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--254
R. J. Snooks Another scientific practice separating
chemistry from physics: thought
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--270
Joseph E. Earley, Sr. Some Philosophical Influences on Ilya
Prigogine's Statistical Mechanics . . . 271--283
Eric R. Scerri Commentary on Allen & Knight's Response
to the Löwdin Challenge . . . . . . . . . 285--292
John E. Bloor and
W. H. Eugen Schwarz Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--303
R. B. King and
D. H. Rouvray Response of D. H. Rouvray and R. B.
King, Editors of the Book \booktitleThe
Periodic Table: Into the 21st Century 305--306
R. Pagni Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--310
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
R. J. Deltete Wilhelm Ostwald's Energetics 1: Origins
and Motivations . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--56
Claus Jacob The closure of the Department of
Chemistry at the University of Exeter
--- An insider's view . . . . . . . . . 57--64
Leo Näpinen The need for the historical
understanding of nature in physics and
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--84
Shant Shahbazian and
Mansour Zahedi Letter to the Editor: The concept of
chemical bond- some like it fuzzy but
others concrete . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95
Carmen J. Giunta Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100
Janet D. Stemwedel Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--114
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Geoff Rayner-Canham and
Megan Oldford The chemical `Knight's Move'
relationship: what is its significance? 119--125
Michael Laing Where to put hydrogen in a periodic
table? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
W. H. Eugen Schwarz Recommended Questions on the Road
towards a Scientific Explanation of the
Periodic System of Chemical Elements
with the Help of the Concepts of Quantum
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--188
Guillermo Restrepo and
Leonardo Pachón Mathematical Aspects of the Periodic Law 189--214
G. W. Rayner-Canham Book Review: Eric R. Scerri,
\booktitleThe Periodic Table: its Story
and its Significance . . . . . . . . . . 215--218
Eric Scerri Editorial 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Maurice R. Kibler From the Mendeleev periodic table to
particle physics and back to the
periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234
Philip J. Stewart A century on from Dmitrii Mendeleev:
tables and spirals, noble gases and
Nobel prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--245
Sibel Erduran Breaking the law: promoting
domain-specificity in chemical education
in the context of arguing about the
periodic law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--263
R. J. Deltete Wilhelm Ostwald's energetics 2:
energetic theory and applications, part
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--316
Klaus Ruthenberg Saving chemical phenomena outside the
scientific community . . . . . . . . . . 317--320
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Octavio Novaro On the rightful place for He within the
periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
Geoff Rayner-Canham and
Zheng Zheng Naming elements after scientists: an
account of a controversy . . . . . . . . 13--18
Rom Harré Some Presuppositions in the Metaphysics
of Chemical Reactions . . . . . . . . . 19--38
F. Michael Akeroyd Mechanistic Explanation versus
Deductive-Nomological Explanation . . . 39--48
Micah Newman Chemical supervenience . . . . . . . . . 49--62
Ernesto Paparazzo Why take chemistry stoically? The case
of Posidonius . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--75
Eric Scerri Editorial 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Santiago Alvarez and
Joaquim Sales and
Miquel Seco On books and chemical elements . . . . . 79--100
Paul Hoyningen-Huene Thomas Kuhn and the chemical revolution 101--115
W. M. Goodwin Structural formulas and explanation in
organic chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127
Liberato Cardellini The Views and Influence of Ernst von
Glasersfeld: An Introduction . . . . . . 129--134
Hinne Hettema A note on Michael Weisberg's: challenges
to the structural conception of chemical
bonding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--142
Eric Scerri Editorial 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Tami I. Spector ISPC 2007 editorial . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Jerome A. Berson Fundamental theories and their empirical
patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--156
Alan F. Chalmers Atom and aether in nineteenth-century
physical science . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--166
G. K. Vemulapalli Theories of the chemical bond and its
true nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176
W. M. Goodwin Implementation and innovation in total
synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--186
Robert J. Deltete Wilhelm Ostwald's energetics 3:
energetic theory and applications, part
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--221
Eric Scerri Editorial 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Tami I. Spector ISPC 2007 second editorial . . . . . . . 3--5
N. Sukumar The chemist's concept of molecular
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--20
James Francis Salmon Emergence in evolution . . . . . . . . . 21--32
Pio García Discovery by serendipity: a new context
for an old riddle . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
Richard Martin Pagni The origin and development of the
acidity function . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--50
Meredith Tromble The advent of chemical symbolism in the
art of Sonya Rapoport . . . . . . . . . 51--60
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Tami I. Spector ISPC 2007 third editorial . . . . . . . 63--64
Joseph E. Earley, Sr. How chemistry shifts horizons: element,
substance, and the essential . . . . . . 65--77
Klaus Ruthenberg Paneth, Kant, and the philosophy of
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91
Rom Harré Trope theory and the ontology of
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--103
Richard M. Pagni The weak nuclear force, the chirality of
atoms, and the origin of optically
active molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--122
Geoff Rayner-Canham Isoelectronic series: a fundamental
periodic property . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
Jozef Sima Oxidation number: issues of its
determination and range . . . . . . . . 135--143
Hinne Hettema Explanation and theory formation in
quantum chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 145--174
Robert K. DeKosky Book Review: William H. Brock:
\booktitleWilliam Crookes (1832--1919)
and the Commercialization of Science . . 175--180
Lee McIntyre Book Review: Eric Scerri:
\booktitleCollected papers on philosophy
of chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Martín Labarca and
Olimpia Lombardi Book Review: Klaus Ruthenberg and Jaap
van Brakel (eds): \booktitleStuff. The
nature of chemical substances . . . . . 183--186
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Philip J. Stewart Charles Janet: unrecognized genius of
the periodic system . . . . . . . . . . 5--15
W. P. Griffith The group VIII platinum-group metals and
the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25
M. J. Laing The question mark at uranium . . . . . . 27--30
Fathi Habashi Metals: typical and less typical,
transition and inner transition . . . . 31--39
Emma Tobin Microstructuralism and macromolecules:
the case of moonlighting proteins . . . 41--54
J. A. Linthorst An overview: origins and development of
green chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--68
Eric Scerri Explaining the periodic table, and the
role of chemical triads . . . . . . . . 69--83
E. G. Marks and
J. A. Marks Newlands revisited: a display of the
periodicity of the chemical elements for
chemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93
Eric Scerri Editorial 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
K. Ruthenberg ISPC 2008 first editorial . . . . . . . 97--99
Rom Harré Causal concepts in chemical vernaculars 101--115
Michael Akeroyd The philosophical significance of
Mendeleev's successful predictions of
the properties of gallium and scandium 117--122
J. van Brakel Chemistry and physics: no need for
metaphysical glue . . . . . . . . . . . 123--136
Jens Soentgen On the history and prehistory of CO$_2$ 137--148
Martín Labarca and
Olimpia Lombardi Why orbitals do not exist? . . . . . . . 149--157
Olimpia Lombardi and
Mario Castagnino Matters are not so clear on the physical
side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--166
Eric Scerri Editorial 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169
Gordon T. Woods Mendeleev, the man and his matrix:
Dmitri Mendeleev, aspects of his life
and work: was he a somewhat fortunate
man? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--186
Conal Boyce On the boundary between laboratory
`givens' and laboratory `tangibles' . . 187--202
Jean-Pierre Llored Mereology and quantum chemistry: the
approximation of molecular orbital . . . 203--221
Gary D. Patterson Les Atomes: a landmark book in chemistry 223--233
Pieter Thyssen Book Review: Eric R. Scerri:
\booktitleSelected papers on the
periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
Nikos Psarros Book Review: Klaus Ruthenberg (ed):
\booktitleFrantisek Wald: Essays
1891--1929, Wald Press, Prague, 2009,
231 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
Anonymous International Society for the Philosophy
of Chemistry: summer symposium 2011 in
Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Richard F. W. Bader On the non-existence of parallel
universes in chemistry . . . . . . . . . 11--37
Eamonn F. Healy Heisenberg's chemical legacy: resonance
and the chemical bond . . . . . . . . . 39--49
Gabor Pallo Early impact of quantum physics on
chemistry: George Hevesy's work on rare
earth elements and Michael Polanyi's
absorption theory . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61
Rom Harré and
Jean-Pierre Llored Mereologies as the grammars of chemical
discourses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76
Michael Laing Book Review: Sam Kean: \booktitleThe
disappearing spoon: and other true tales
of madness, love, and the history of the
world from the periodic table of the
elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Joseph E. Earley, Sr. Book Review: Alan Chalmers:
\booktitleThe scientist's atom and the
philosopher's stone: how science
succeeded and philosophy failed to gain
knowledge of atoms . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
J. F. Ogilvie Is a molecular orbital measurable by
means of tomographic imaging? . . . . . 87--91
Brian T. Sutcliffe and
R. Guy Woolley A comment on ``Editorial 37'' . . . . . 93--95
Rein Vihalemm The autonomy of chemistry: old and new
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107
R. Garth Kidd Elements of the third kind and the
spin-dependent chemical force . . . . . 109--119
Geoff Rayner-Canham Isodiagonality in the periodic table . . 121--129
Richard M. Pagni Do the solvolysis reactions of secondary
substrates occur by the S$_N$1 or S$_N$2
mechanism: or something else? . . . . . 131--143
Jack E. Fergusson The history of the discovery of nuclear
fission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--166
Sandra D. Hojniak Book Review: David E. Fisher:
\booktitleMuch Ado about (Practically)
Nothing. A History of the Noble Gases 167--169
Eric Scerri Editorial 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino Ontological tensions in sixteenth and
seventeenth century chemistry: between
mechanism and vitalism . . . . . . . . . 173--186
Rom Harré Do explanation formats in elementary
chemistry depend on agent causality? . . 187--200
Mi Gyung Kim From phlogiston to caloric: chemical
ontologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--222
Geoff Rayner-Canham Relationships among the transition
elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--232
Guillermo Restrepo and
José L. Villaveces Chemistry, a lingua philosophica . . . . 233--249
Marelene Rayner-Canham and
Geoff Rayner-Canham Book Review: Anne-Marie Weidler Kubanek:
\booktitleNothing less than an
adventure: Ellen Gleditsch and her life
in science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Alan Chalmers Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--6
Ursula Klein Objects of inquiry in classical
chemistry: material substances . . . . . 7--23
Wolfgang Lef\`evre Viewing chemistry through its ways of
classifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36
Alan Chalmers Klein on the origin of the concept of
chemical compound . . . . . . . . . . . 37--53
Robin Findlay Hendry Chemical substances and the limits of
pluralism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--68
Eric R. Scerri What is an element? What is the periodic
table? And what does quantum mechanics
contribute to the question? . . . . . . 69--81
Jonathan Simon The production of purity as the
production of knowledge . . . . . . . . 83--96
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
and Jonathan Simon: \booktitleChemistry,
the impure science . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
George B. Kauffman Book Review: István Hargittai:
\booktitleJudging Edward Teller: A
closer look at one of the most
influential scientists of the twentieth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
Anonymous International Society for the Philosophy
of Chemistry (ISPC) --- Summer Symposium
2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Anonymous Third international conference on the
periodic table, Cusco, Peru, 2012 . . . 105--106
Eric Scerri Editorial 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Gerald F. Thomas The emancipation of chemistry . . . . . 109--155
Roberto de Andrade Martins The rise of magnetochemistry from Ritter
to Hurmuzescu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--182
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Kenneth J. Klabunde and
Ryan M. Richards (Eds):
\booktitleNanoscale materials in
chemistry, 2nd edn . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Alexander Y. Grosberg and
Alexei R. Khokhlov: \booktitleGiant
molecules: here, there, and everywhere,
2nd edn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Bob B. He:
\booktitleTwo-dimensional X-ray
diffraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Eric Scerri Editorial 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Rom Harré Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Klaus Ruthenberg and
Rom Harré Philosophy of chemistry as intercultural
philosophy: Jaap van Brakel . . . . . . 193--203
Olimpia Lombardi Prigogine and the many voices of nature 205--219
Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino The ontological function of first-order
and second-order corpuscles in the
chemical philosophy of Robert Boyle: the
redintegration of potassium nitrate . . 221--234
Joseph E. Earley, Sr. A neglected aspect of the puzzle of
chemical structure: how history helps 235--243
Jean-Pierre Llored Emergence and quantum chemistry . . . . 245--274
Eric R. Scerri A critique of Weisberg's view on the
periodic table and some speculations on
the nature of classifications . . . . . 275--284
Eric Scerri Editorial 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Peter G. Nelson What is the mole? . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11
Mark R. Leach Concerning electronegativity as a basic
elemental property and why the periodic
table is usually represented in its
medium form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--29
Francis T. Marchese Periodicity, visualization, and design 31--55
Jozef Sima Redox reactions: inconsistencies in
their description . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
Lucía Lewowicz and
Olimpia Lombardi Stuff versus individuals . . . . . . . . 65--77
Mustafa Sarikaya A view about the short histories of the
mole and Avogadro's number . . . . . . . 79--91
Geoffrey Blumenthal Kuhn and the Chemical Revolution: a
re-assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--101
Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez The semantics of chemical education:
constructivism, externalism and the
language of chemistry . . . . . . . . . 103--116
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Richard P. Pohanish and
Stanley A. Greene: \booktitleWiley guide
to chemical incompatibilities, 3rd edn 117--117
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Bassam Z. Shakhashiri:
\booktitleChemical demonstrations: a
handbook for teachers of chemistry,
Volume 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Thomas B. Rauchfuss,
Editor-in-Chief: \booktitleInorganic
Syntheses, Volume 35 . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Eric Scerri Editorial 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Guillermo Restrepo Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Rom Harré and
Jean-Pierre Llored Molecules and mereology . . . . . . . . 127--144
Alan Rocke What did ``theory'' mean to
nineteenth-century chemists? . . . . . . 145--156
José Antonio Chamizo Technochemistry: One of the chemists'
ways of knowing . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170
Farzad Mahootian Paneth's epistemology of chemical
elements in light of Kant's
\booktitleOpus postumum . . . . . . . . 171--184
Guillermo Restrepo To mathematize, or not to mathematize
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197
Peter G. Nelson Periodicity in the formulae of carbonyls
and the electronic basis of the Periodic
Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--208
Amihud Gilead Shechtman's three question marks:
possibility, impossibility, and
quasicrystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--224
Alexandru Manafu Internal realism and the problem of
ontological autonomy: a critical note on
Lombardi and Labarca . . . . . . . . . . 225--228
Geoff Rayner-Canham Periodic patterns: the Group ($n$) and
Group ($ n + 10$) linkage . . . . . . . 229--237
George B. Kauffman Book Review: George A. Olah, Alain
Goeppert and G. K. Surya Prakash (eds):
\booktitleBeyond oil and gas: the
methanol economy, 2nd updated and
enlarged edition . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Herbert W. Roesky and
Dietmar K. Kennepohl (eds):
\booktitleExperiments in green and
sustainable chemistry . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Eric Scerri Editorial 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Chérif F. Matta Special issue: Philosophical aspects and
implications of the quantum theory of
atoms in molecules (QTAIM) . . . . . . . 245--251
Richard F. W. Bader and
Chérif F. Matta Atoms in molecules as non-overlapping,
bounded, space-filling open quantum
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--276
Mark E. Eberhart and
Travis E. Jones The two faces of chemistry: can they be
reconciled? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--285
Shant Shahbazian Beyond the orthodox QTAIM: motivations,
current status, prospects and challenges 287--302
N. Sukumar The atom in a molecule as a mereological
construct in chemistry . . . . . . . . . 303--309
Hinne Hettema Austere quantum mechanics as a reductive
basis for chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 311--326
Shant Shahbazian Comment on ``Austere quantum mechanics
as a reductive basis for chemistry'' . . 327--334
Hinne Hettema QTAIM as a research programme: a reply
to Shahbazian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--341
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Mauro Causá and
Andreas Savin and
Bernard Silvi Atoms and bonds in molecules and
chemical explanations . . . . . . . . . 3--26
Roman F. Nalewajski Entropic concepts in electronic
structure theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--62
Hamidreza Joypazadeh and
Shant Shahbazian What does shape a topological atom? . . 63--75
Shant Shahbazian Letter to the editor: Are there
``really'' atoms in molecules? . . . . . 77--84
Eric Scerri Editorial 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Alejandro Ramírez-Solís and
Octavio Novaro The first metals in Mendeleiev's table:
further arguments to place He above Ne
and not above Be . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--91
Conal Boyce Using logic to define the
Aufbau--Hund--Pauli relation: a guide to
teaching orbitals as a single, natural,
unfragmented rule-set . . . . . . . . . 93--106
Giovanni Villani Structured system in chemistry:
comparison with mechanics and biology 107--123
Carlos Alberto Marques and
Adélio A. S. C. Machado Environmental Sustainability:
implications and limitations to Green
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--147
Amihud Gilead Pure possibilities and some striking
scientific discoveries . . . . . . . . . 149--163
Paul Needham Nineteenth-century chemical theory:
correction of a misunderstanding . . . . 165--167
Alan Rocke Response to a letter to the editor . . . 169--170
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Eric R. Scerri:
\booktitleThe periodic table: a very
short introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Eric Scerri Erratum to: Editorial 41 . . . . . . . . 173--173
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Raymundo Hernández and
Octavio Novaro The first metals in Mendeleiev's Table:
Part II. A new argument against the
placement of hydrogen atop the alkali
metal column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
Olimpia Lombardi Linking chemistry with physics:
arguments and counterarguments . . . . . 181--192
Hinne Hettema Linking chemistry with physics: a reply
to Lombardi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--200
Amihud Gilead Chain reactions, ``impossible''
reactions, and panenmentalist
possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214
Juan Bautista Bengoetxea and
Oliver Todt and
José Luis Luján Similarity and representation in
chemical knowledge practices . . . . . . 215--233
Naum S. Imyanitov Adequacy of the new formulation of the
Periodic Law when fundamental variations
occur in blocks and periods . . . . . . 235--247
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Ulf Lagerkvist: Erling
Norrby (ed.): \booktitleThe periodic
table and a missed Nobel Prize . . . . . 249--251
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Eric Scerri: \booktitleA
tale of 7 elements . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Eric Scerri (ed):
\booktitle30-Second elements: the 50
most significant elements, each
explained in half a minute . . . . . . . 257--258
Eric Scerri Editorial 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Juergen Heinrich Maar and
Eder João Lenardão The Brazilian contribution of Alcindo
Flores Cabral to the periodic
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--22
William B. Jensen The positions of lanthanum (actinium)
and lutetium (lawrencium) in the
periodic table: an update . . . . . . . 23--31
Kevin Charles de Berg Foundations of and challenges to
electrolyte chemistry . . . . . . . . . 33--48
Pio Garcia Computer simulations and experiments: in
vivo-in vitro conditions in biochemistry 49--65
Francesco Di Giacomo On some characteristics of Marcus' work
in the light of the history of science 67--78
Alexander Yu. Rulev Pegniochemistry as a new branch of the
chemical science . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86
Gábor Palló Book Review: Jean-Pierre Llored (ed.):
\booktitleThe philosophy of chemistry:
practices, methodologies, and concepts 87--89
Eric Scerri Editorial 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Daniel Barragán Essentials of kinetics and
thermodynamics for understanding
chemical oscillations . . . . . . . . . 93--106
Giuliano Moretti The ''extent of reaction'': a powerful
concept to study chemical
transformations at the first-year
general chemistry courses . . . . . . . 107--115
Rodolfo Gambini and
Lucía Lewowicz and
Jorge Pullin Quantum mechanics, strong emergence and
ontological non-reducibility . . . . . . 117--127
Leonard M. Khalilov Symmetry, inertness and chirality in
theory of chiral systems . . . . . . . . 129--135
Nicholas W. Best Lavoisier's ''Reflections on
phlogiston'' I: against phlogiston
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--151
Peter G. Nelson A modern version of Lewis's theory of
valency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162
Vijay M. Tangde Advances in hadronic chemistry and its
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--179
Eric Scerri Editorial 51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
Jean-Pierre Llored Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--185
Delphine Schaming and
Hynd Remita Nanotechnology: from the ancient time to
nowadays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--205
Brice Laurent Operations for a problem of existence:
dealing with the ontological uncertainty
of nano substances . . . . . . . . . . . 207--224
Stéphanie Lacour and
Sacha Loeve and
Brice Laurent and
Virginie Albe Deliberating responsibility: a
collective contribution by the C'Nano
IdF Nanoscience & Society Office . . . . 225--245
Jan C. A. Boeyens Wave-mechanical model for chemistry . . 247--262
JudithAnn R. Hartman and
Eric A. Nelson ``Do we need to memorize that?'' or
cognitive science for chemists . . . . . 263--274
Michael Downward Symmetry and representation in a three
dimensional space . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
Eric Scerri Editorial 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Nicholas W. Best Lavoisier's ''Reflections on
phlogiston'' II: on the nature of heat 3--13
Peter G. Nelson Introducing the theory of relativity . . 15--19
Naum S. Imyanitov Dialectics and synergetics in chemistry.
Periodic Table and oscillating reactions 21--56
Sadegh Salehzadeh and
Farahnaz Maleki The $ 4 s $ and $ 3 d $ subshells: Which
one fills first in progressing through
the periodic table and which one fills
first in any particular atom? . . . . . 57--65
Jozef Sima Structure-related melting and boiling
points of inorganic compounds . . . . . 67--79
Jean-Pierre Llored Book Review: Kostas Gavroglu and Ana
Simões: \booktitleNeither physics nor
chemistry. A history of quantum
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Peter G. Nelson Erratum to: A modern version of Lewis's
theory of valency . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Rom Harré Realism and the turn to practice . . . . 89--89
Rein Vihalemm Chemistry and the problem of pluralism
in science: an analysis concerning
philosophical and scientific
disagreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102
Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino Van Helmont's hybrid ontology and its
influence on the chemical interpretation
of spirit and ferment . . . . . . . . . 103--112
Peeter Müürsepp Chemistry as a practical science: Edward
Caldin revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123
Jean-Pierre Llored and
Stéphane Sarrade Connecting the philosophy of chemistry,
green chemistry, and moral philosophy 125--152
Naum S. Imyanitov Spiral as the fundamental graphic
representation of the Periodic Law.
Blocks of elements as the autonomic
parts of the Periodic System . . . . . . 153--173
George B. Kauffman and
Laurie M. Kauffman Ahmed H. Zewail: $4$D visualization of
matter: recent collected works . . . . . 175--176
Eric Scerri Editorial 54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
Yona Siderer In memory of Professor Masanori Kaji (8
February 1956--18 July 2016) . . . . . . 179--181
Amihud Gilead Eka-elements as chemical pure
possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--194
Mark Weinstein The periodic table and the model of
emerging truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--212
Peeter Müürsepp Chemistry as a practical science (Edward
Caldin Revisited) . . . . . . . . . . . 213--223
Sebastian Fortin and
Olimpia Lombardi and
Juan Camilo Martínez González Isomerism and decoherence . . . . . . . 225--240
Grant Fisher Diagnostics in computational organic
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--262
Eric Scerri Editorial 55 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Marina P. Banchetti-Robino Guest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Manuel DeLanda Realism and the history of chemistry . . 5--15
Grant Fisher Content, design, and representation in
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28
Robert Prentner Chemistry, context and the objects of
thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--41
Sebastian Fortin and
Olimpia Lombardi and
Juan Camilo Martínez González The relationship between chemistry and
physics from the perspective of Bohmian
mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--59
Klaus Ruthenberg and
Juan Camilo Martínez González Electronegativity and its multiple
faces: persistence and measurement . . . 61--75
Giovanni Villani Chemical perspective in the study of
living beings: a systemic complexity
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91
Roderick S. Black Book Review: Peter J. T. Morris:
\booktitleThe Matter Factory: A History
of the Chemistry Laboratory . . . . . . 93--94
Eric Scerri Editorial 56 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Elena Ghibaudi and
Luigi Cerruti Chemical substance, material, product,
goods, waste: a changing ontology . . . 97--123
Nuno Francisco and
Carla Morais and
João C. Paiva and
Paula Gameiro A colourful bond between art and
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--138
Marko Vitas and
Andrej Dobovisek On a quest of reverse translation . . . 139--155
José A. Chamizo The fifth chemical revolution:
1973--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--179
Eric Scerri Editorial 57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
Marina P. Banchetti-Robino Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Mariana Córdoba and
Alfio Zambon How to handle nanomaterials? The
re-entry of individuals into the
philosophy of chemistry . . . . . . . . 185--196
Hirofumi Ochiai Does a molecule have structure? . . . . 197--207
Vanessa A. Seifert An alternative approach to unifying
chemistry with quantum mechanics . . . . 209--222
Yona Siderer Udagawa Youan's (1798--1846) translation
of light and heat reactions in his book
\booktitleKouso Seimika . . . . . . . . 223--240
Geoffrey Blumenthal and
James Ladyman The development of problems within the
phlogiston theories, 1766--1791 . . . . 241--280
K. Brad Wray A new philosophy of science from the
history of arcane natural science . . . 281--285
Eric Scerri Editorial 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Le Grande O. Dolino Chemistry as a creative science . . . . 3--13
David A. Johnson and
Peter G. Nelson Valencies of the lanthanides . . . . . . 15--27
David A. Johnson and
Peter G. Nelson Erratum to: Valencies of the lanthanides 29--30
Dumitru Petru Iga Basic principles of the strategy
concerning the elucidation of
configuration of chiral centers of
linear isomeric aldohexoses . . . . . . 31--41
Ray Hefferlin An allegory on molecular periodicity . . 43--49
Alfio Zambon A representation of the periodic system
based on atomic-number triads . . . . . 51--74
Jeffrey I. Seeman Moving beyond insularity in the history,
philosophy, and sociology of chemistry 75--86
Eric Scerri Editorial 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Giovanni Villani and
Elena Ghibaudi and
Luigi Cerruti The orbital: a pivotal concept in the
relationship between chemistry and
physics? A comment to the work by Fortin
and coauthors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97
Peter Hodder The periodic table: revelation by quest
rather than by revolution . . . . . . . 99--110
Philip J. Stewart Tetrahedral and spherical
representations of the periodic system 111--120
Mark A. Murphy Early Industrial Roots of Green
Chemistry and the history of the BHC
Ibuprofen process invention and its
Quality connection . . . . . . . . . . . 121--165
E. R. Scerri Editorial 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Geoffrey Blumenthal and
James Ladyman Theory comparison and choice in
chemistry, 1766--1791 . . . . . . . . . 169--189
Wojciech Grochala On the position of helium and neon in
the Periodic Table of Elements . . . . . 191--207
K. Brad Wray The atomic number revolution in
chemistry: a Kuhnian analysis . . . . . 209--217
Jeffrey I. Seeman From ``multiple simultaneous independent
discoveries'' to the theory of
``multiple simultaneous independent
errors'': a conduit in science . . . . . 219--249
Vladimir M. Petrusevski and
Julijana Cvetkovi\'c On the `true position' of hydrogen in
the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . 251--260
Sebastian Fortin and
Olimpia Lombardi and
Juan Camilo Martínez González Let us build better boats: an answer to
Jeffrey Seeman's ``Moving beyond
insularity in the history, philosophy,
and sociology of chemistry'' . . . . . . 261--264
KelleyAnne Malinen and
Chérif F. Matta ``Climate change'' and the ``butterfly
effect'' in an eighteenth century
monograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--268
Eric Scerri Editorial 61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Philip J. Stewart Mendeleev's predictions: success and
failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--9
José A. Chamizo About continuity and rupture in the
history of chemistry: the fourth
chemical revolution (1945--1966) . . . . 11--29
Juan Camilo Martínez González and
Sebastian Fortin and
Olimpia Lombardi Why molecular structure cannot be
strictly reduced to quantum mechanics 31--45
David A. Johnson and
Peter G. Nelson Correction to: Valencies of the
lanthanides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Sebastian Fortin and
Camilo Martinez Gonzalez and
Alfio Zambon and
Waldmir Araujo Neto Guest editorial: ISPC 2015 special issue 49--50
Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino The function of microstructure in
Boyle's chemical philosophy: `chymical
atoms' and structural explanation . . . 51--59
Eric R. Scerri Five ideas in chemical education that
must die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--69
Hernán Lucas Accorinti Incompatible models in chemistry: the
case of electronegativity . . . . . . . 71--81
María Silvia Polzella and
Penélope Lodeyro Re-evaluating semi-empirical computer
simulations in quantum chemistry . . . . 83--95
Juan Camilo Martínez González The problem of optical isomerism and the
interpretation of quantum mechanics . . 97--107
Roberto de Andrade Martins Émile Meyerson and mass conservation in
chemical reactions: a priori
expectations versus experimental tests 109--124
Jesus Alberto Jaimes Arriaga and
Sebastian Fortin and
Olimpia Lombardi A new chapter in the problem of the
reduction of chemistry to physics: the
Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules . . 125--136
Eric Scerri Editorial 62 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
K. Brad Wray What to make of Mendeleev's predictions? 139--143
Philip J. Stewart Getting it right is not equivalent to
getting it wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Geoffrey Blumenthal Priestley's views on the composition of
water and related airs . . . . . . . . . 147--178
Peter G. Nelson What is chemistry that I may teach it? 179--191
Runzhan Liu and
Guoyong Mao and
Ning Zhang Research of chemical elements and
chemical bonds from the view of complex
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--206
Rosana del P. Suárez The network theory: a new language for
speaking about chemical elements
relations through stoichiometric binary
compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--220
Juan Quílez A historical/epistemological account of
the foundation of the key ideas
supporting chemical equilibrium theory 221--252
Eric Scerri Editorial 63 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Naum S. Imyanitov Does the period table appear doubled?
Two variants of division of elements
into two subsets. Internal and secondary
periodicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--284
Amihud Gilead Further light on the philosophical
significance of Mackay's theoretical
discovery of crystalline pure
possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296
Raffaele Pisano and
Abdelkader Anakkar and
Emilio Marco Pellegrino and
Maxime Nagels Thermodynamic foundations of physical
chemistry: reversible processes and
thermal equilibrium into the history . . 297--323
Peter G. Nelson Statistical mechanical interpretation of
temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--331
Carlos Santana Mineral misbehavior: why mineralogists
don't deal in natural kinds . . . . . . 333--343
Elijah St. Germain Giovanni Villani: Chemistry: A Systemic
Complexity Science . . . . . . . . . . . 345--348
Eric Scerri Editorial 64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Philip J. Stewart From telluric helix to telluric remix 3--14
Vanessa A. Seifert The role of idealisations in describing
an isolated molecule . . . . . . . . . . 15--29
Mich\`ele Friend The beginnings of a formal language for
conceptual analysis of processes in
macro-chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
Justin Price Model transfer and conceptual progress:
tales from chemistry and biology . . . . 43--57
Filip A. A. Buyse Boyle, Spinoza and Glauber: on the
philosophical redintegration of
saltpeter ---a reply to Antonio
Clericuzio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--76
Hirofumi Ochiai Overcoming skepticism about molecular
structure by developing the concept of
affordance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--86
Gareth R. Eaton Whom should we credit for the discovery
of isotopes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98
Jerry Ray Dias Teaching of chemistry before and after
the periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106
Chérif F. Matta and
Olimpia Lombardi and
Jesús Jaimes Arriaga Two-step emergence: the quantum theory
of atoms in molecules as a bridge
between quantum mechanics and molecular
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--129
Trevor H. Levere Pere Grapí: Inspiring air: a history of
air-related science . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
Eric Scerri Editorial 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
K. Brad Wray and
Line Edslev Andersen Reporting the discovery of new chemical
elements: working in different worlds,
only 25 years apart . . . . . . . . . . 137--146
Haresh Lalvani $4$D-cubic lattice of chemical elements 147--194
Haresh Lalvani Correction to: $4$D-cubic lattice of
chemical elements . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Chris Campbell and
Karoliina Pulkkinen How Mendeleev issued his predictions:
comment on Andrea Woody . . . . . . . . 197--215
René E. Vernon Organising the metals and nonmetals . . 217--233
Julio Antonio Gutiérrez Samanez Binódic periodic system: a mathematical
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--266
K. Hagino and
Y. Maeno A nuclear periodic table . . . . . . . . 267--273
John Emsley Elements of chemistry . . . . . . . . . 275--277
Elena Ghibaudi and
Luigi Cerruti and
Giovanni Villani Structure, shape, topology: entangled
concepts in molecular chemistry . . . . 279--307
Keith S. Taber Conceptual confusion in the chemistry
curriculum: exemplifying the problematic
nature of representing chemical concepts
as target knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 309--334
Hiteshi Tandon and
Tanmoy Chakraborty and
Vandana Suhag A scale of atomic electronegativity in
terms of atomic nucleophilicity index 335--346
Eric Scerri Editorial 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Elena Ghibaudi and
Luigi Cerruti Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--351
N. Sukumar Ontological status of time in chemistry 353--361
Gil Santos and
Gabriel Vallejos and
Davide Vecchi A relational-constructionist account of
protein macrostructure and function . . 363--382
Giuseppina Gini The QSAR similarity principle in the
deep learning era: Confirmation or
revision? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--402
Klaus Ruthenberg and
Ave Mets Chemistry is pluralistic . . . . . . . . 403--419
Antonino Drago A new definition of reduction between
two scientific theories: no reduction of
chemistry to quantum mechanics . . . . . 421--445
Sarah Hijmans and
Jean-Pierre Llored How to investigate the underpinnings of
sciences? The case of the element
chlorine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--456
Hirofumi Ochiai Understanding molecular structure
requires constructive realism . . . . . 457--465
Gabriela García Zerecero Molecular models and scientific realism 467--476
Sergio Gabriele Maria Sereno Prediction, accommodation and the
periodic table: a reappraisal . . . . . 477--488
Clevis Headley Philosophy, natural kinds,
microstructuralism, and the (mis)use of
chemical examples: intimacy versus
integrity as orientations towards
chemical practice . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
Eric Scerri Editorial 67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Miguel Escribano-Cabeza Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of
G. W. Leibniz II . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
Francesco Di Giacomo Early theoretical chemistry: Plato's
chemistry in Timaeus . . . . . . . . . . 17--30
Amihud Gilead A comment about the meaning and
significance of life in the light of
generalized crystallography . . . . . . 31--40
Wojciech Grochala Watch the colors: or about qualitative
thinking in chemistry . . . . . . . . . 41--58
Eamonn F. Healy Organic chemistry as representation . . 59--68
Peeter Müürsepp and
Gulzhikhan Nurysheva and
Aliya Ramazanova and
Zhamilya Amirkulova Chemistry as the basic science . . . . . 69--83
Juan Quílez On the early thermodynamic and kinetic
deductions of the equilibrium constant
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--103
Apostolos Syropoulos On vague chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 105--113
Hub Zwart Revolutionary poetry and liquid crystal
chemistry: Herman Gorter, Ada Prins and
the interface between literature and
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--132
Eric R. Scerri Book Review: Charles S. McCaw:
\booktitleOrbitals with applications in
atomic spectra, 2nd edition . . . . . . 133--134
Eric Scerri Editorial 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Miguel Escribano-Cabeza Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of
G. W. Leibniz I . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--153
René E. Vernon The location and composition of Group 3
of the periodic table . . . . . . . . . 155--197
René E. Vernon Correction to: The location and
composition of Group 3 of the periodic
table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Yoshiteru Maeno and
Kouichi Hagino and
Takehiko Ishiguro Three related topics on the periodic
tables of elements . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214
E. G. Marks and
J. A. Marks Mendeleyev revisited . . . . . . . . . . 215--223
Ceth Lightfield Logics for algorithmic chemistries . . . 225--237
Geoffrey R. H. Neuss A problem with explaining the electron
configuration of scandium . . . . . . . 239--245
Eric Scerri Response to Geoffrey Neuss on how to
teach the $ 4 s $ and $ 3 d $ orbital
conundrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--251
Kevin C. de Berg An analysis of the difficulties
associated with determining that a
reaction in chemical equilibrium is
incomplete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--275
David Dunmur Liquid crystal chemistry and poetry . . 277--287
Alan Chalmers Review of Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino,
\booktitleThe chemical philosophy of
Robert Boyle: mechanicism, chymical
atoms and emergence. Pp. x + 196,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 289--291
Eric Scerri Book Review: Geoff Rayner-Canham:
\booktitleThe periodic table: past
present, and future . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
Eric Scerri Editorial 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Carlos Alberto Marques and
Adelio A. S. C. Machado An integrated vision of the Green
Chemistry evolution along 25 years . . . 299--328
Lee J. Silverberg What is an organic substance? . . . . . 329--336
Raffaele Pisano and
Emilio Marco Pellegrino and
Maxime Nagels Conceptual polymorphism of entropy into
the history: extensions of the second
law of thermodynamics towards
statistical physics and chemistry during
nineteenth--twentieth centuries . . . . 337--378
Sebastian Fortin and
Olimpia Lombardi Is the problem of molecular structure
just the quantum measurement problem? 379--395
Peter G. Nelson A simple treatment of chemical
equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--405
Erik Weber and
Merel Lefevere and
Kristian Gonzalez Barman Quantum mechanical atom models,
legitimate explanations and mechanisms 407--429
Vladimir M. Petrusevski A brief comment on `Mendeleyev
Revisited' by Marks & Marks (Foundations
of Chemistry,
\urlhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-021-09398-4) 431--432
Keith S. Taber Making sense of a pedagogic text . . . . 433--457
Agustín Adúriz-Bravo Improving chemistry teacher education
with the philosophy of chemistry . . . . 459--463
Peter J. Ramberg Book Review: Eric Scerri and Elena
Ghibaudi, eds: \booktitleWhat is an
element? A collection of essays by
chemists, philosophers, historians, and
educators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--473
Eric Scerri Editorial 70 (the platinum issue) . . . 1--2
Peter G. Nelson Understanding entropy . . . . . . . . . 3--13
Yoji Hisamatsu and
Kazuhiro Egashira and
Yoshiteru Maeno Ogawa's nipponium and its re-assignment
to rhenium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--57
R. Pucci and
G. G. N. Angilella Density functional theory, chemical
reactivity, and the Fukui functions . . 59--71
Balakrishnan Viswanathan and
Mohamed Shajahan Gulam Razul Orthogonality properties of states,
configurations, and orbitals . . . . . . 73--86
Nenad Raos Special theory of relativity in
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--95
Margaret A. L. Blackie Knowledge building in chemistry
education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111
Sérgio Luís da Silva The habit of the pipe: a layperson's
view of the periodic table . . . . . . . 113--120
Alan Goodwin Chemistry: progress since 1860 ---
reflections on chemistry and chemistry
education triggered by reading
Muspratt's \booktitleChemistry . . . . . 121--142
Edit Talpsepp Interview with Eric Scerri . . . . . . . 143--153
Peter Atkins Brick by brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
Eric Scerri Editorial 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
K. Brad Wray What happened when chemists came to
classify elements by their atomic
number? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--170
Larissa Moreira Ferreira and
Jean Pscheidt Weiss and
Marcelo Lambach Disparities and conceptual connections
regarding the concept of substance in
general chemistry textbook glossaries 171--187
Naum S. Imyanitov Periodic tables for cations + 1, + 2, +
3 and anions --- 1. Quantitative
characteristics for manifestations of
internal periodicity and kainosymmetry 189--219
Ernesto Paparazzo Plato on chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 221--238
JudithAnn R. Hartman and
Eric A. Nelson and
Paul A. Kirschner Improving student success in chemistry
through cognitive science . . . . . . . 239--261
Smriti Sharma Quantum algorithms for simulation of
quantum chemistry problems by quantum
computers: an appraisal . . . . . . . . 263--276
Nazila Farmani Anooshe and
Aliyar Mousavi The case of Zinjafr in the medical and
mineralogical texts of medieval Persia:
a puzzle created in the absence of the
concept of chemical elements . . . . . . 277--284
Eric R. Scerri In praise of triads . . . . . . . . . . 285--300
Jay Labinger Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--310
Eric Scerri Editorial 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
Savino Longo Hints for a formal language inspired by
Lewis structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--330
Naum S. Imyanitov Non-periodic table of periodicities and
periodic table with additional
periodicities: tetrad periodicity . . . 331--358
Praveen Kumar Sharma Prospective sustainable agriculture
principles inspired by green chemistry 359--362
Jeffrey I. Seeman A case for the engagement between the
sciences and the humanities. Jay A.
Labinger's: \booktitleConnecting
Literature and Science. New York:
Routledge, 2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--373
Alfio Zambon Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or
interaction? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--387
Eric R. Scerri Hasok Chang on the nature of acids . . . 389--404
Fiorela Alassia A process ontology approach in
biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and
biosignaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--422
Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino Robert Boyle and the relational and
dispositional nature of chemical
properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--431
Eric Scerri Editorial 73 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Balakrishnan Viswanathan and
M. Shajahan Gulam Razul Electronegativity provides the
relationship between formal charge,
oxidation state, and actual charge . . . 5--28
Pawe\l Mi\'skowiec Name game: the naming history of the
chemical elements --- part 1 --- from
antiquity till the end of 18th century 29--51
Pawe\l Mi\'skowiec Correction to: Name game: the naming
history of the chemical elements ---
part 1 --- from antiquity till the end
of 18th century . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
K. Brad Wray Theodore Richards and the discovery of
isotopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--66
Jordi Cat and
Nicholas W. Best Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear
structure: multiple standards and
evolving collaboration of chemistry and
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--99
Eric R. Scerri Interview with Olimpia Lombardi . . . . 101--117
G. M. Anderson Entropy and sign conventions . . . . . . 119--125
Jesus Alberto Jaimes Arriaga On the nature of quantum-chemical
entities: the case of electron density 127--139
Hirofumi Ochiai Philosophical grounds for designing
invisible molecules . . . . . . . . . . 141--149
Martín Pérgola and
Lydia Galagovsky Models, languages and representations:
philosophical reflections driven from a
research on teaching and learning about
cellular respiration . . . . . . . . . . 151--166
Clevis Headley Natural kinds, chemical practice, and
interpretive communities . . . . . . . . 167--187
Fiorela Alassia Correction to: A process ontology
approach in biochemistry: the case of
GPCRs and biosignaling . . . . . . . . . 189--206
Guoyong Mao and
Runzhan Liu and
Ning Zhang Predicting unknown binary compounds from
the view of complex network . . . . . . 207--214
Pawe\l Mi\'skowiec Name game: the naming history of the
chemical elements: part 2 --- turbulent
nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234
Pawe\l Mi\'skowiec Name game: the naming history of the
chemical elements: part 3 --- rivalry of
scientists in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries . . . . . . . . . 235--251
Eric R. Scerri A commentary on Weisberg's critique of
the `structural conception' of chemical
bonding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264
Francesco Di Giacomo On how some fundamental chemical
concepts are correlated by arithmetic,
geometric and harmonic means . . . . . . 265--268
Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz The poetry of the universe, the periodic
table, and the scientific progress: a
review of new studies on the periodic
table of the elements . . . . . . . . . 269--283
Gareth R. Eaton Interpreting the bonding of B$_2$H$_6$
and the nature of the
3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test
of theory of valency . . . . . . . . . . 285--298
Dean J. Tantillo and
Jeffrey I. Seeman On a unified theory of acids and bases:
Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern
theoretical chemistry, and the
philosophy of chemistry . . . . . . . . 299--320
Jeffrey I. Seeman Revolutions in science, revolutions in
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--335
Robert T. Hanlon Book review of Paul Sen's,
``\booktitleEinstein's Fridge. How the
difference between hot and cold explains
the universe'' ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-6 337--338
Robert T. Hanlon Correction: Paul Sen's,
``\booktitleEinstein's Fridge. How the
difference between hot and cold explains
the universe'' ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-6 339--339
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
Mich\`ele Indira Friend Editor's Note by Michele Friend . . . . 343--344
Hrvoj Vancik From complexity to systems . . . . . . . 345--358
Hirofumi Ochiai Why do prima facie intuitive theories
work in organic chemistry? . . . . . . . 359--367
Mauricio Suárez and
Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez Reactivity in chemistry: the propensity
view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--380
Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez Scientific representation and science
identity: the case of chemistry . . . . 381--391
Safia Bano A defense of placeholder essentialism 393--404
Ryan Miller Chemical reduction and quantum
interpretation: a case for Thomistic
emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--417
Rr. Lis Permana Sari and
Heru Pratomo and
Isti Yunita and
Sukisman Purtadi and
Mahesh Narayan and
Kristian Handoyo Sugiyarto Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a
case study on the concept of quantum
number, electronic configuration and
review for teaching material . . . . . . 419--437
Yachun Xu and
Yichen Tong and
Jiangyang Yuan Common empirical foundations, different
theoretical choices: The
Berthollet--Proust controversy and
Dalton's resolution . . . . . . . . . . 439--455
Gareth R. Eaton Response to the critique by Dr. K. Brad
Wray, published in \booktitleFoundations
of Chemistry October 6, 2022 . . . . . . 457--461
Marcin Krasnodebski An unlikely bifurcation: history of
sustainable (but not Green) chemistry 463--484
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Curt Wentrup Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals'
alchemist and his secret recipes . . . . 3--13
René Vernon Hydrogen over helium: a philosophical
position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--36
Alessio Rocci Celebrating the birth of De Donder's
chemical affinity (1922--2022): from the
uncompensated heat to his \em Ave Maria 37--73
K. Brad Wray Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn
of the twentieth century: the case of
Theodore W. Richards . . . . . . . . . . 75--88
Balakrishnan Viswanathan and
M. Shajahan Gulam Razul Relating screening to atomic properties
and electronegativity in the Slater atom 89--113
Maria Antonietta Carpentieri and
Valentina Domenici Introducing UV-visible spectroscopy at
high school level following the
historical evolution of spectroscopic
instruments: a proposal for chemistry
teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--139
Ernesto Estrada What is a mathematician doing \ldots in
a chemistry class? . . . . . . . . . . . 141--166
Peter F. Lang Bond order and bond energies . . . . . . 167--177
Robert T. Hanlon Deciphering the physical meaning of
Gibbs's maximum work equation . . . . . 179--189
Eric Scerri Editorial 77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Klaus Ruthenberg Centenary Workshop on the Bifurcation of
Acidity --- Protonism vs. Electronism 193--196
Gerd-Uwe Flechsig Usanovich and Nernst colliding:
inconsistencies in the all-in-one
acid--base concept? . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
Apostolos K. Gerontas ``Sharp of taste'': the concept of
acidity in the Greek system of natural
explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--211
Klaus Ruthenberg Bifurcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--224
Pieter Thyssen Are acids natural kinds? . . . . . . . . 225--253
Karina Aparecida de Freitas Dias de Souza and
Paulo Alves Porto Interaction, interpretation and
representation: the construction and
dissemination of chemical knowledge from
a Peircean semiotics perspective . . . . 255--273
Mihalj Posa Connecting De Donder's equation with the
differential changes of thermodynamic
potentials: understanding thermodynamic
potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290
Ricardo Vivas-Reyes Clashing perspectives: Kantian
epistemology and quantum chemistry
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--300
Kamna Sharma and
Deepak Kumar Das and
Saibal Ray Research status of the periodic table: a
bibliometric analysis . . . . . . . . . 301--314
Mario Rodríguez Peña and
José Ángel García Guerra The periodic spiral of elements . . . . 315--321
Eric Scerri Editorial 78 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
Eric Scerri Laws of nature according to some
philosophers of science and according to
chemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--341
Hernan Lucas Accorinti The problem of chemical laws . . . . . . 343--353
Vanessa A. Seifert The value of laws in chemistry . . . . . 355--368
Vanessa A. Seifert Correction to: The value of laws in
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Sebastian Fortin and
Olimpia Lombardi What is the electron density? . . . . . 371--383
Elena Ghibaudi and
Marco Ghirardi and
Alberto Regis Are there distinct views of chemistry
behind the old and the new definition of
mole? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--398
Hirofumi Ochiai Functional realism suggested from the
actualization of affordances . . . . . . 399--411
Mariana Córdoba and
Fiorela Alassia and
Alfio Zambon Identity in the nanoworld: processes and
contextuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--428
Stephen Esser Relational quantum mechanics, causal
composition, and molecular structure . . 429--446
Cristina Spolti Lorenzetti and
Anabel Cardoso Raicik and
Luiz O. Q. Peduzzi Periodic law, chemical elements and
scientific discoveries: considerations
from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn . . 447--465
Eric Scerri Editorial 79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Clevis R. Headley On the very idea of a social
enantiomorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Mich\`ele Indira Friend Editor's note for volume II of the
proceedings of the 2022 conference of
the international society for the
philosophy of chemistry . . . . . . . . 3--18
Mich\`ele Friend Measuring ecologically sound practice in
the chemical industry . . . . . . . . . 19--21
Hernan Lucas Accorinti and
Juan Camilo Martínez González Test case for perspectivism:
incompatible models in quantum chemistry 23--33
Marabel Riesmeier An interactive approach to the notion of
chemical substance and the case of water 35--46
G. M. Anderson The equilibrium box . . . . . . . . . . 47--58
José Antonio Chamizo and
Gustavo Ortiz-Millán Ethics of the future of chemical
sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--69
Alexander Yu. Rulev Chemical jargon: thinking out loud . . . 71--81
Waldo Quiroz and
Roberto Morales-Aguilar and
Pablo A. Perez A general definition of the concept of
chemical speciation, chemical species
transformation and chemical species
evolution based on a semantics of
meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--93
Toratane Munegumi Prelog's model as the first tool to
predict stereoselectivity: identifying
patterns in chemical data to construct
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--111
Ryan Michael Miller The irreducibility of chemistry to
Everettian quantum mechanics . . . . . . 113--131