All Stories

  1. Editorial 81
  2. Editorial 80
  3. The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation and its role in the reduction of chemistry
  4. A brief response to Seifert on laws and the periodic table
  5. Editorial 79
  6. EDITORIAL 78
  7. Laws of nature according to some philosophers of science and according to chemists
  8. Editorial 77
  9. Editorial 76
  10. Editorial 75
  11. Editorial 73
  12. Interview with Olimpia Lombardi
  13. A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding
  14. A New Response to Wray and an Attempt to Widen the Conversation
  15. Editorial 72
  16. Editorial 71
  17. The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
  18. In praise of triads
  19. Hasok Chang on the nature of acids
  20. Editorial 70 (the platinum issue)
  21. Various forms of the periodic table including the left-step table, the regularization of atomic number triads and first-member anomalies
  22. Editorial 69
  23. Editorial 68
  24. Editorial 67
  25. Response to Geoffrey Neuss on how to teach the 4s and 3d orbital conundrum
  26. Geoff Rayner-Canham: The periodic table: past present, and future
  27. Charles S. McCaw: Orbitals with applications in atomic spectra, 2nd edition
  28. Recent attempts to change the periodic table
  29. Editorial 66
  30. Editorial 65
  31. On Chemical Natural Kinds
  32. Causation, electronic configurations and the periodic table
  33. Editorial 64
  34. The periodic table and the turn to practice
  35. Editorial 63
  36. Examining the periodic table’s quantum connections, by Eric Scerri
  37. Editorial 62
  38. Happy 150th Birthday to the Periodic Table
  39. Editorial 61
  40. Five ideas in chemical education that must die
  41. Looking Backwards and Forwards at the Development of the Periodic Table
  42. Can quantum ideas explain chemistry’s greatest icon?
  43. Minor Contributors Count as Much as Heroic Discoverers
  44. On the nature of chemistry
  45. Editorial 60
  46. Editorial 59
  47. Editorial 58
  48. A Response to Tom Vogt
  49. Editorial 57
  50. Editorial 56
  51. The Gulf between chemistry and philosophy of chemistry, then and now
  52. On the Madelung Rule
  53. Editorial 55
  54. Editorial 54
  55. Editorial 53
  56. Another four bricks in the wall
  57. Editorial 52
  58. Which Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table?
  59. Editorial 51
  60. Editorial 50
  61. Editorial 49
  62. periodic table, simultaneous discovery
  63. Introduction
  64. Editorial 48
  65. Editorial 47
  66. Editorial 46
  67. On the Naming and Symbols for Elements 115 and 112
  68. Master of Missing Elements
  69. Un relato sobre Siete Elementos
  70. Editorial 45
  71. Some comments on the views of Niaz, Rodriguez and Brito on Mendeleev’s periodic system
  72. Editorial 44
  73. Cracks in the Periodic Table
  74. Editorial 43
  75. Are you really a realist?
  76. Some Comments Arising from a Recent Proposal Concerning Instrumentalism and Chemical Education
  77. Editorial 42
  78. Erratum to: Editorial 41
  79. A critique of Weisberg’s view on the periodic table and some speculations on the nature of classifications
  80. Editorial 41
  81. Editorial 40
  82. The Periodic Table
  83. Contributors
  84. Top-down causation regarding the chemistry-physics interface: a sceptical view
  85. What is an element? What is the periodic table? And what does quantum mechanics contribute to the question?
  86. Editorial 39
  87. 6. Physics invades the periodic table
  88. 5. The Russian genius – Mendeleev
  89. 4. Steps towards the periodic table
  90. 3. Atomic weight, triads, and Prout
  91. 2. A quick overview of the modern periodic table
  92. 9. Modern alchemy: from missing elements to synthetic elements
  93. 8. Quantum mechanics
  94. 7. Electronic structure
  95. Elementary interest
  96. Editorial 38
  97. Editorial 37
  98. Selected Papers on the Periodic Table
  99. Rebuilding the Periodic Debate — Eric Scerri
  100. Ensayos sobre la Tabla Periódica de los elementos químicos
  101. Editorial 36
  102. Editorial 35
  103. A revisionist history of atomism
  104. Recognizing rhenium
  105. Editorial 34
  106. Explaining the periodic table, and the role of chemical triads
  107. Chemistry goes abstract
  108. Finding francium
  109. Which Elements Belong in Group 3?
  110. Response to “The Role of Triads”
  111. Editorial 33
  112. Selected Papers on the Periodic Table by Eric Scerri
  113. Introduction
  114. Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and the Question of Reduction
  115. The Electronic Configuration Model, Quantum Mechanics and Reduction
  116. The Periodic Table and the Electron
  117. Prediction and the Periodic Table
  118. Mendeleev's Legacy: THE PERIODIC SYSTEM
  119. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table
  120. How Good Is the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System?
  121. LOWDIN'S REMARKS ON THE AUFBAU PRINCIPLE AND A PHILOSOPHER'S VIEW OF AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
  122. The Role of Triads in the Evolution of the Periodic Table: Past and Present
  123. FRONT MATTER
  124. Tales of technetium
  125. The Dual Sense of the Term "Element," Attempts to Derive the Madelung Rule, and the Optimal Form of the Periodic Table, If Any
  126. Editorial 32
  127. Editorial 31
  128. The Madelung Rule appears in all chemistry and physics textbooks
  129. Editorial 30
  130. Editorial 29
  131. Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry
  132. General Introduction to the papers
  133. THE CASE FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY
  134. Has Chemistry Been at Least Approximately Reduced to Quantum Mechanics?
  135. Reduction and Emergence in Chemistry - Two Recent Approches
  136. HAS THE PERIODIC TABLE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY AXTOMATIZED?
  137. THE PERIODIC TABLE: THE ULTIMATE PAPER TOOL IN CHEMISTRY
  138. Realism, Reduction, and the "Intermediate Position"
  139. JUST HOW AB INITIO IS AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMISTRY?
  140. Constructivism, Relativism, and Chemical Education
  141. NORMATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND THE ROLE OF CHEMISTRY
  142. Prediction of the Nature of Hafnium from Chemistry, Bohr's Theory and Quantum Theory
  143. Some Aspects of the Metaphysics of Chemistry and the Nature of the Elements
  144. The Recently Claimed Observation of Atomic Orbitals and Some Related Philosophical Issues
  145. The Role of Triads in the Evolution of the Periodic Table: Past and Present
  146. Editorial 28
  147. Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry
  148. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table
  149. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table
  150. Eric R. Scerri. The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xxii, 346 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530573-9
  151. Philosophy of Chemistry, Reduction, Emergence, and Chemical Education
  152. Reduction and Emergence in Chemistry—Two Recent Approaches
  153. Editorial 27
  154. Editorial 26
  155. Editorial 25
  156. The Chemical Element: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science) (Andrew Ede)
  157. The Ambiguity of Reduction
  158. Editorial 24
  159. Editorial 23
  160. On the continuity of reference of the elements: a response to Hendry
  161. Commentary on Allen & Kinght’s Response to the Löwdin Challenge
  162. Editorial 22
  163. Philosophy Of Chemistry
  164. Response to Barnes’s critique of Scerri and Worrall
  165. Editorial 21
  166. Editorial 20
  167. Editorial 19 Special Issue on Philosophical Problems of Chemical Kinds
  168. Some Aspects of the Metaphysics of Chemistry and the Nature of the Elements
  169. Principles and Parameters in Physics and Chemistry
  170. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Does Any of This Matter? (the author replies)
  171. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Constructivism and Chemical Education (the author replies)
  172. Editorial 17
  173. Editorial 18
  174. Editorial 16
  175. Just how ab initio is ab initio quantum chemistry?
  176. HAFNIUM
  177. THE PERIODIC TABLE Of The Elements
  178. Constructivism, Relativism, and Chemical Education
  179. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research
  180. Response to Vollmer’s Review of Minds and Molecules
  181. Lowdin’s Remarks on the Aufbau Principle and a Philosopher’s View of AB Initio Quantum Chemistry
  182. Have Orbitals Really Been Observed?
  183. Prediction and the periodic table
  184. The Recently Claimed Observation of Atomic Orbitals and Some Related Philosophical Issues
  185. THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CHEMICAL EDUCATION
  186. The Periodic Table: The Ultimate Paper Tool in Chemistry
  187. Have Orbitals Really Been Observed?
  188. Second response to Paul Needham
  189. Philosophy of Chemistry—A New Interdisciplinary Field?
  190. The Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System (author's reply)
  191. In Defense of Quantum Numbers
  192. How Good Is the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System?
  193. The Evolution of the Periodic System
  194. Interfacing a solar photovoltaic system with the national electricity grid in Malta
  195. Ordinal Explanation of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements
  196. Popper's naturalized approach to the reduction of chemistry
  197. Analysis of wind characteristics in the Maltese Archipelago
  198. Interdisciplinary research at the Beckman institutes
  199. BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY
  200. THE CASE FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY
  201. Editorial Introduction
  202. Demystification at What Cost? (the authors reply)
  203. Why the 4s Orbital Is Occupied before the 3d
  204. Performance and cost evaluation of a stand-alone photovoltaic system in Malta
  205. The exclusion principle, chemistry and hidden variables
  206. Hands-on experience of the setting-up of a stand-alone photovoltaic demonstration project in Malta
  207. Further Aufbau Nonsense
  208. Prediction of the nature of hafnium from chemistry, Bohr's theory and quantum theory
  209. Has Chemistry Been at Least Approximately Reduced to Quantum Mechanics?
  210. Configurational energy and bond polarity
  211. Correspondence and Reduction in Chemistry
  212. The nature of the chemical bond—Once more (3)
  213. The electronic periodic chart of the elements
  214. Aufbau mnemonics
  215. Chemistry, spectroscopy, and the question of reduction
  216. The Electronic Configuration Model, Quantum Mechanics and Reduction
  217. Reductionist physics
  218. Transition metal configurations and limitations of the orbital approximation
  219. Eastern mysticism and the alleged parallels with physics
  220. The Tao of chemistry
  221. Structure of crystalline polymers produced by rapid cooling of their melts: 2. Polyoxymethylene
  222. Introduction
  223. The Nature of Chemical Knowledge and Chemical Education
  224. Normative and Descriptive Philosophy of Science and the Role of Chemistry