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  1. Editorial 81

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  2. Editorial 80

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  3. The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation and its role in the reduction of chemistry

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  4. A brief response to Seifert on laws and the periodic table

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  5. Editorial 79

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  6. EDITORIAL 78

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  7. Laws of nature according to some philosophers of science and according to chemists

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  8. Editorial 77

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  9. Editorial 76

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  10. Editorial 75

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  11. Editorial 73

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  12. Interview with Olimpia Lombardi

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  13. A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  14. A New Response to Wray and an Attempt to Widen the Conversation

    Article • Substantia, November 2022, Firenze University Press

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  15. Editorial 72

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  16. Editorial 71

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  17. The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery

    Article • Ambix, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  18. In praise of triads

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  19. Hasok Chang on the nature of acids

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  20. Editorial 70 (the platinum issue)

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  21. Various forms of the periodic table including the left-step table, the regularization of atomic number triads and first-member anomalies

    Article • ChemTexts, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  22. Editorial 69

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  23. Editorial 68

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  24. Editorial 67

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  25. Response to Geoffrey Neuss on how to teach the 4s and 3d orbital conundrum

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  26. Geoff Rayner-Canham: The periodic table: past present, and future

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  27. Charles S. McCaw: Orbitals with applications in atomic spectra, 2nd edition

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  28. Recent attempts to change the periodic table

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, August 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  29. Editorial 66

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  30. Editorial 65

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  31. On Chemical Natural Kinds

    Article • Journal for General Philosophy of Science, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  32. Causation, electronic configurations and the periodic table

    Article • Synthese, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  33. Editorial 64

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  34. The periodic table and the turn to practice

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  35. Editorial 63

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  36. Examining the periodic table’s quantum connections, by Eric Scerri

    Article • C&EN Global Enterprise, August 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  37. Editorial 62

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  38. Happy 150th Birthday to the Periodic Table

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  39. Editorial 61

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  40. Five ideas in chemical education that must die

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  41. Looking Backwards and Forwards at the Development of the Periodic Table

    Article • Chemistry International, January 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  42. Can quantum ideas explain chemistry’s greatest icon?

    Article • Nature, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  43. Minor Contributors Count as Much as Heroic Discoverers

    Article • ChemViews, January 2019, Wiley

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  44. On the nature of chemistry

    Article • Educación Química, August 2018, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  45. Editorial 60

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  46. Editorial 59

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  47. Editorial 58

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  48. Editorial 57

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  49. Editorial 56

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  50. The Gulf between chemistry and philosophy of chemistry, then and now

    Article • Structural Chemistry, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  51. On the Madelung Rule

    Article • Inference International Review of Science, April 2017, Inference: International Review of Science

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  52. Editorial 55

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  53. Editorial 54

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  54. Editorial 53

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  55. Another four bricks in the wall

    Article • Nature Chemistry, March 2016, Nature

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  56. Editorial 52

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  57. Which Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table?

    Article • Chemistry International, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  58. Editorial 51

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  59. Editorial 50

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  60. Editorial 49

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  61. periodic table, simultaneous discovery

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  62. Introduction

    Article • October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  63. Editorial 48

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  64. Editorial 47

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  65. Editorial 46

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  66. On the Naming and Symbols for Elements 115 and 112

    Article • Chemistry International, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  67. Master of Missing Elements

    Article • American Scientist, January 2014, Sigma Xi

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  68. Un relato sobre Siete Elementos

    Article • Revista eureka sobre enseñanza y divulgación de las ciencias, January 2014, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cadiz

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  69. Editorial 45

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  70. Some comments on the views of Niaz, Rodriguez and Brito on Mendeleev’s periodic system

    Article • Educación Química, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  71. Editorial 44

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  72. Cracks in the Periodic Table

    Article • Scientific American A Matter of Time, May 2013, Nature

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  73. Editorial 43

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  74. Are you really a realist?

    Article • The New Scientist, November 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  75. Some Comments Arising from a Recent Proposal Concerning Instrumentalism and Chemical Education

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, October 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  76. Editorial 42

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  77. Erratum to: Editorial 41

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  78. A critique of Weisberg’s view on the periodic table and some speculations on the nature of classifications

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  79. Editorial 41

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  80. Editorial 40

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  81. The Periodic Table

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  82. Contributors

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  83. Top-down causation regarding the chemistry-physics interface: a sceptical view

    Article • Interface Focus, November 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  84. What is an element? What is the periodic table? And what does quantum mechanics contribute to the question?

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  85. Editorial 39

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  86. 6. Physics invades the periodic table

    Article • September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  87. 5. The Russian genius – Mendeleev

    Article • September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  88. 4. Steps towards the periodic table

    Article • September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  89. 3. Atomic weight, triads, and Prout

    Article • September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  90. 2. A quick overview of the modern periodic table

    Article • September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  91. 9. Modern alchemy: from missing elements to synthetic elements

    Article • September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  92. 8. Quantum mechanics

    Article • September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  93. 7. Electronic structure

    Article • September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  94. Elementary interest

    Article • The New Scientist, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  95. Editorial 38

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  96. Editorial 37

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  97. Selected Papers on the Periodic Table

    Article • American Journal of Physics, January 2011, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  98. Rebuilding the Periodic Debate — Eric Scerri

    Article • ChemViews, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  99. Ensayos sobre la Tabla Periódica de los elementos químicos

    Article • Revista eureka sobre enseñanza y divulgación de las ciencias, January 2011, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cadiz

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  100. Editorial 36

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  101. Editorial 35

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  102. A revisionist history of atomism

    Article • Metascience, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  103. Recognizing rhenium

    Article • Nature Chemistry, July 2010, Nature

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  104. Editorial 34

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  105. Explaining the periodic table, and the role of chemical triads

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  106. Chemistry goes abstract

    Article • Nature Chemistry, December 2009, Nature

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  107. Finding francium

    Article • Nature Chemistry, November 2009, Nature

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  108. Which Elements Belong in Group 3?

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  109. Response to “The Role of Triads”

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  110. Editorial 33

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  111. Selected Papers on the Periodic Table by Eric Scerri

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  112. Introduction

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  113. Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and the Question of Reduction

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  114. The Electronic Configuration Model, Quantum Mechanics and Reduction

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  115. The Periodic Table and the Electron

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  116. Prediction and the Periodic Table

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  117. Mendeleev's Legacy: THE PERIODIC SYSTEM

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  118. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  119. How Good Is the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System?

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  120. LOWDIN'S REMARKS ON THE AUFBAU PRINCIPLE AND A PHILOSOPHER'S VIEW OF AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  121. The Role of Triads in the Evolution of the Periodic Table: Past and Present

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  122. FRONT MATTER

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  123. Tales of technetium

    Article • Nature Chemistry, July 2009, Nature

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  124. The Dual Sense of the Term "Element," Attempts to Derive the Madelung Rule, and the Optimal Form of the Periodic Table, If Any

    Article • July 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  125. Editorial 32

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  126. Editorial 31

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  127. The Madelung Rule appears in all chemistry and physics textbooks

    Article • International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, January 2009, Wiley

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  128. Editorial 30

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  129. Editorial 29

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  130. Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  131. General Introduction to the papers

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  132. THE CASE FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  133. Has Chemistry Been at Least Approximately Reduced to Quantum Mechanics?

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  134. Reduction and Emergence in Chemistry - Two Recent Approches

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  135. HAS THE PERIODIC TABLE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY AXTOMATIZED?

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  136. THE PERIODIC TABLE: THE ULTIMATE PAPER TOOL IN CHEMISTRY

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  137. Realism, Reduction, and the "Intermediate Position"

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  138. JUST HOW AB INITIO IS AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMISTRY?

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  139. Constructivism, Relativism, and Chemical Education

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  140. NORMATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND THE ROLE OF CHEMISTRY

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  141. Prediction of the Nature of Hafnium from Chemistry, Bohr's Theory and Quantum Theory

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  142. Some Aspects of the Metaphysics of Chemistry and the Nature of the Elements

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  143. The Recently Claimed Observation of Atomic Orbitals and Some Related Philosophical Issues

    Article • June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  144. The Role of Triads in the Evolution of the Periodic Table: Past and Present

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, April 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  145. Editorial 28

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  146. Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry

    Article • January 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  147. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table

    Article • American Scientist, January 2008, Sigma Xi

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  148. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table

    Article • American Scientist, January 2008, Sigma Xi

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  149. 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

    Article • KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, January 2008, Nomos Verlag

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  150. Philosophy of Chemistry, Reduction, Emergence, and Chemical Education

    Article • December 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  151. Reduction and Emergence in Chemistry—Two Recent Approaches

    Article • Philosophy of Science, December 2007, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  152. Editorial 27

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  153. Editorial 26

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  154. Editorial 25

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  155. The Chemical Element: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science) (Andrew Ede)

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, January 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  156. Editorial 24

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  157. Editorial 23

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  158. On the continuity of reference of the elements: a response to Hendry

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, June 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  159. Commentary on Allen & Kinght’s Response to the Löwdin Challenge

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  160. Editorial 22

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  161. Philosophy Of Chemistry

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  162. Response to Barnes’s critique of Scerri and Worrall

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, December 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  163. Editorial 21

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  164. Editorial 20

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  165. Editorial 19 Special Issue on Philosophical Problems of Chemical Kinds

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  166. Principles and Parameters in Physics and Chemistry

    Article • Philosophy of Science, December 2004, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  167. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Does Any of This Matter? (the author replies)

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, February 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  168. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Constructivism and Chemical Education (the author replies)

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, February 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  169. Editorial 17

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  170. Editorial 18

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  171. Editorial 16

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  172. Just how ab initio is ab initio quantum chemistry?

    Article • Foundations of Chemistry, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  173. HAFNIUM

    Article • Chemical & Engineering News, September 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  174. THE PERIODIC TABLE Of The Elements

    Article • Chemical & Engineering News, September 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  175. Constructivism, Relativism, and Chemical Education

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, May 2003, Wiley

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  176. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, May 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  177. Response to Vollmer’s Review of Minds and Molecules

    Article • Philosophy of Science, April 2003, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  178. Lowdin’s Remarks on the Aufbau Principle and a Philosopher’s View of AB Initio Quantum Chemistry

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  179. Have Orbitals Really Been Observed?

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, March 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  180. Prediction and the periodic table

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, September 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  181. The Recently Claimed Observation of Atomic Orbitals and Some Related Philosophical Issues

    Article • Philosophy of Science, September 2001, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  182. THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CHEMICAL EDUCATION

    Article • Chemistry Education Research and Practice, January 2001, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  183. The Periodic Table: The Ultimate Paper Tool in Chemistry

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  184. Have Orbitals Really Been Observed?

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, November 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  185. Second response to Paul Needham

    Article • International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, October 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  186. Philosophy of Chemistry—A New Interdisciplinary Field?

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, April 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  187. The Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System (author's reply)

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, September 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  188. In Defense of Quantum Numbers

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, May 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  189. How Good Is the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System?

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, November 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  190. The Evolution of the Periodic System

    Article • Scientific American A Matter of Time, September 1998, Nature

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  191. Interfacing a solar photovoltaic system with the national electricity grid in Malta

    Article • Renewable Energy, September 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  192. Ordinal Explanation of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements

    Article • International Journal of Uncertainty Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, August 1998, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  193. Popper's naturalized approach to the reduction of chemistry

    Article • International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, March 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  194. Analysis of wind characteristics in the Maltese Archipelago

    Article • Renewable Energy, December 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  195. Interdisciplinary research at the Beckman institutes

    Article • Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, June 1997, Maney Publishing

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  196. BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY

    Article • Synthese, June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  197. THE CASE FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY

    Article • Synthese, June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  198. Editorial Introduction

    Article • Synthese, June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  199. Demystification at What Cost? (the authors reply)

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, May 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  200. Why the 4s Orbital Is Occupied before the 3d

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, June 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  201. Performance and cost evaluation of a stand-alone photovoltaic system in Malta

    Article • Renewable Energy, May 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  202. The exclusion principle, chemistry and hidden variables

    Article • Synthese, January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  203. Hands-on experience of the setting-up of a stand-alone photovoltaic demonstration project in Malta

    Article • Renewable Energy, April 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  204. Further Aufbau Nonsense

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, March 1994, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  205. Prediction of the nature of hafnium from chemistry, Bohr's theory and quantum theory

    Article • Annals of Science, March 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  206. Has Chemistry Been at Least Approximately Reduced to Quantum Mechanics?

    Article • PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, January 1994, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  207. Configurational energy and bond polarity

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, May 1993, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  208. Correspondence and Reduction in Chemistry

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  209. The nature of the chemical bond—Once more (3)

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, July 1992, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  210. The electronic periodic chart of the elements

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, August 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  211. Aufbau mnemonics

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, May 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  212. Chemistry, spectroscopy, and the question of reduction

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, February 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  213. The Electronic Configuration Model, Quantum Mechanics and Reduction

    Article • The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  214. Reductionist physics

    Article • Physics Education, May 1990, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  215. Transition metal configurations and limitations of the orbital approximation

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, June 1989, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  216. Eastern mysticism and the alleged parallels with physics

    Article • American Journal of Physics, January 1989, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  217. The Tao of chemistry

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, February 1986, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  218. Structure of crystalline polymers produced by rapid cooling of their melts: 2. Polyoxymethylene

    Article • Polymer, December 1979, Elsevier

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  219. Introduction

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  220. The Nature of Chemical Knowledge and Chemical Education

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri

  221. Normative and Descriptive Philosophy of Science and the Role of Chemistry

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric R. Scerri