All Stories

  1. A New Response to Wray and an Attempt to Widen the Conversation
  2. Various forms of the periodic table including the left-step table, the regularization of atomic number triads and first-member anomalies
  3. Recent attempts to change the periodic table
  4. On Chemical Natural Kinds
  5. Causation, electronic configurations and the periodic table
  6. Editorial 63
  7. Examining the periodic table’s quantum connections, by Eric Scerri
  8. Editorial 62
  9. Happy 150th Birthday to the Periodic Table
  10. Editorial 61
  11. Five ideas in chemical education that must die
  12. Looking Backwards and Forwards at the Development of the Periodic Table
  13. Can quantum ideas explain chemistry’s greatest icon?
  14. Minor Contributors Count as Much as Heroic Discoverers
  15. On the nature of chemistry
  16. Editorial 60
  17. Editorial 59
  18. Editorial 58
  19. Editorial 57
  20. Editorial 56
  21. The Gulf between chemistry and philosophy of chemistry, then and now
  22. On the Madelung Rule
  23. Editorial 55
  24. Editorial 54
  25. Editorial 53
  26. Another four bricks in the wall
  27. Editorial 52
  28. Which Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table?
  29. Editorial 51
  30. Editorial 50
  31. Editorial 49
  32. periodic table, simultaneous discovery
  33. Introduction
  34. Editorial 48
  35. Editorial 47
  36. Editorial 46
  37. On the Naming and Symbols for Elements 115 and 112
  38. Master of Missing Elements
  39. Editorial 45
  40. Some comments on the views of Niaz, Rodriguez and Brito on Mendeleev’s periodic system
  41. Editorial 44
  42. Cracks in the Periodic Table
  43. Editorial 43
  44. Are you really a realist?
  45. Some Comments Arising from a Recent Proposal Concerning Instrumentalism and Chemical Education
  46. Editorial 42
  47. Erratum to: Editorial 41
  48. A critique of Weisberg’s view on the periodic table and some speculations on the nature of classifications
  49. Editorial 41
  50. Editorial 40
  51. The Periodic Table
  52. Contributors
  53. Top-down causation regarding the chemistry-physics interface: a sceptical view
  54. What is an element? What is the periodic table? And what does quantum mechanics contribute to the question?
  55. Editorial 39
  56. 6. Physics invades the periodic table
  57. 5. The Russian genius – Mendeleev
  58. 4. Steps towards the periodic table
  59. 3. Atomic weight, triads, and Prout
  60. 2. A quick overview of the modern periodic table
  61. 9. Modern alchemy: from missing elements to synthetic elements
  62. 8. Quantum mechanics
  63. 7. Electronic structure
  64. Elementary interest
  65. Editorial 38
  66. Editorial 37
  67. Selected Papers on the Periodic Table
  68. Rebuilding the Periodic Debate — Eric Scerri
  69. Editorial 36
  70. Editorial 35
  71. A revisionist history of atomism
  72. Recognizing rhenium
  73. Editorial 34
  74. Explaining the periodic table, and the role of chemical triads
  75. Chemistry goes abstract
  76. Finding francium
  77. Which Elements Belong in Group 3?
  78. Response to “The Role of Triads”
  79. Editorial 33
  80. Selected Papers on the Periodic Table by Eric Scerri
  81. Introduction
  82. Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and the Question of Reduction
  83. The Electronic Configuration Model, Quantum Mechanics and Reduction
  84. The Periodic Table and the Electron
  85. Prediction and the Periodic Table
  86. Mendeleev's Legacy: THE PERIODIC SYSTEM
  87. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table
  88. How Good Is the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System?
  89. LOWDIN'S REMARKS ON THE AUFBAU PRINCIPLE AND A PHILOSOPHER'S VIEW OF AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
  90. The Role of Triads in the Evolution of the Periodic Table: Past and Present
  91. FRONT MATTER
  92. Tales of technetium
  93. The Dual Sense of the Term "Element," Attempts to Derive the Madelung Rule, and the Optimal Form of the Periodic Table, If Any
  94. Editorial 32
  95. Editorial 31
  96. The Madelung Rule appears in all chemistry and physics textbooks
  97. Editorial 30
  98. Editorial 29
  99. Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry
  100. General Introduction to the papers
  101. THE CASE FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY
  102. Has Chemistry Been at Least Approximately Reduced to Quantum Mechanics?
  103. Reduction and Emergence in Chemistry - Two Recent Approches
  104. HAS THE PERIODIC TABLE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY AXTOMATIZED?
  105. THE PERIODIC TABLE: THE ULTIMATE PAPER TOOL IN CHEMISTRY
  106. Realism, Reduction, and the "Intermediate Position"
  107. JUST HOW AB INITIO IS AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMISTRY?
  108. Constructivism, Relativism, and Chemical Education
  109. NORMATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND THE ROLE OF CHEMISTRY
  110. Prediction of the Nature of Hafnium from Chemistry, Bohr's Theory and Quantum Theory
  111. Some Aspects of the Metaphysics of Chemistry and the Nature of the Elements
  112. The Recently Claimed Observation of Atomic Orbitals and Some Related Philosophical Issues
  113. The Role of Triads in the Evolution of the Periodic Table: Past and Present
  114. Editorial 28
  115. Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry
  116. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table
  117. The Past and Future of the Periodic Table
  118. 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
  119. Philosophy of Chemistry, Reduction, Emergence, and Chemical Education
  120. Reduction and Emergence in Chemistry—Two Recent Approaches
  121. Editorial 27
  122. Editorial 26
  123. Editorial 25
  124. The Chemical Element: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science) (Andrew Ede)
  125. Editorial 24
  126. Editorial 23
  127. On the continuity of reference of the elements: a response to Hendry
  128. Commentary on Allen & Kinght’s Response to the Löwdin Challenge
  129. Editorial 22
  130. Philosophy Of Chemistry
  131. Response to Barnes’s critique of Scerri and Worrall
  132. Editorial 21
  133. Editorial 20
  134. Editorial 19 Special Issue on Philosophical Problems of Chemical Kinds
  135. Principles and Parameters in Physics and Chemistry
  136. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Does Any of This Matter? (the author replies)
  137. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Constructivism and Chemical Education (the author replies)
  138. Editorial 17
  139. Editorial 18
  140. Editorial 16
  141. Just how ab initio is ab initio quantum chemistry?
  142. HAFNIUM
  143. Constructivism, Relativism, and Chemical Education
  144. Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research
  145. Response to Vollmer’s Review of Minds and Molecules
  146. Lowdin’s Remarks on the Aufbau Principle and a Philosopher’s View of AB Initio Quantum Chemistry
  147. Have Orbitals Really Been Observed?
  148. Prediction and the periodic table
  149. The Recently Claimed Observation of Atomic Orbitals and Some Related Philosophical Issues
  150. THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CHEMICAL EDUCATION
  151. The Periodic Table: The Ultimate Paper Tool in Chemistry
  152. Have Orbitals Really Been Observed?
  153. Second response to Paul Needham
  154. Philosophy of Chemistry—A New Interdisciplinary Field?
  155. The Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System (author's reply)
  156. In Defense of Quantum Numbers
  157. How Good Is the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System?
  158. The Evolution of the Periodic System
  159. Ordinal Explanation of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements
  160. Popper's naturalized approach to the reduction of chemistry
  161. Interdisciplinary research at the Beckman institutes
  162. Demystification at What Cost? (the authors reply)
  163. Why the 4s Orbital Is Occupied before the 3d
  164. The exclusion principle, chemistry and hidden variables
  165. Further Aufbau Nonsense
  166. Prediction of the nature of hafnium from chemistry, Bohr's theory and quantum theory
  167. Has Chemistry Been at Least Approximately Reduced to Quantum Mechanics?
  168. Configurational energy and bond polarity
  169. Correspondence and Reduction in Chemistry
  170. The electronic periodic chart of the elements
  171. Aufbau mnemonics
  172. Chemistry, spectroscopy, and the question of reduction
  173. The Electronic Configuration Model, Quantum Mechanics and Reduction
  174. Reductionist physics
  175. Transition metal configurations and limitations of the orbital approximation
  176. Eastern mysticism and the alleged parallels with physics
  177. Introduction
  178. The Nature of Chemical Knowledge and Chemical Education
  179. Normative and Descriptive Philosophy of Science and the Role of Chemistry