- The value of laws in chemistry
- Laws of nature according to some philosophers of science and according to chemists
- Chemical jargon: thinking out loud
- Editorial 77
- Are there distinct views of chemistry behind the old and the new definition of mole?
- Identity in the nanoworld: processes and contextuality
- The problem of chemical laws
- What is the electron density?
- The equilibrium box
- The periodic spiral of elements
- Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure
- Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn
- Research status of the periodic table: a bibliometric analysis
- Clashing perspectives: Kantian epistemology and quantum chemistry theory
- An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water
- Deciphering the physical meaning of Gibbs’s maximum work equation
- Connecting De Donder’s equation with the differential changes of thermodynamic potentials: understanding thermodynamic potentials
- Editorial 76
- Hydrogen over helium: A philosophical position
- Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective
- Ethics of the future of chemical sciences
- Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry
- Introducing UV–visible spectroscopy at high school level following the historical evolution of spectroscopic instruments: a proposal for chemistry teachers
- Measuring ecologically sound practice in the chemical industry
- What is a mathematician doing…in a chemistry class?
- Relating screening to atomic properties and electronegativity in the Slater atom
- Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism
- Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes
- Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards
- Celebrating the birth of De Donder’s chemical affinity (1922–2022): from the uncompensated heat to his Ave Maria
- Editor’s Note by Michele Friend
- Centenary Workshop on the Bifurcation of Acidity -Protonism vs. Electronism
- Are acids natural kinds?
- Bifurcations
- Editorial 75
- Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid–base concept?
- “Sharp of taste”: the concept of acidity in the Greek system of natural explanation
- Bond order and bond energies
- Reactivity in chemistry: the propensity view
- Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry
- A defense of placeholder essentialism
- Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence
- Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material
- An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry
- Response to the critique by Dr. K. Brad Wray, published in foundations of chemistry October 6, 2022
- Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution
- Editorial 73
- On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means
- Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry
- Why do prima facie intuitive theories work in organic chemistry?
- Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency
- The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements
- On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry
- Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling
- Correction: Book review of Paul Sen’s, “Einstein’s Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe” ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-6
- Correction to: Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century
- Entropy and sign conventions
- Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities
- Predicting unknown binary compounds from the view of complex network
- Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century
- Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics
- From complexity to systems
- Interview with Olimpia Lombardi
- A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding
- Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century
- Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge
- Editorial 72
- Theodore Richards and the discovery of isotopes
- A case for the engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Jay A. Labinger’s: Connecting Literature and Science. New York: Routledge, 2022
- Foundations of chemistry book review – Dr. Robert T. Hanlon
- Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity
- A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling
- Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration
- Prospective sustainable agriculture principles inspired by green chemistry
- Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures
- Editorial 71
- 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
- Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction?
- In praise of triads
- Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules
- Robert Boyle and the relational and dispositional nature of chemical properties
- Hasok Chang on the nature of acids
- On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density
- Quantum algorithms for simulation of quantum chemistry problems by quantum computers: an appraisal
- Editorial 70 (the platinum issue)
- Improving student success in chemistry through cognitive science
- Periodic tables for cations + 1, + 2, + 3 and anions − 1. Quantitative characteristics for manifestations of internal periodicity and kainosymmetry
- Brick by brick
- Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry
- Special theory of relativity in chemistry
- Interview with Eric Scerri
- Plato on chemistry
- The habit of the pipe: a layperson’s view of the periodic table
- Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries
- What happened when chemists came to classify elements by their atomic number?
- Knowledge building in chemistry education
- Orthogonality properties of states, configurations, and orbitals
- Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions
- Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium
- Editorial 69
- Understanding entropy
- A brief comment on ‘Mendeleyev Revisited’ by Marks & Marks (foundations of chemistry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-021–09,398-4)
- Improving chemistry teacher education with the philosophy of chemistry
- Quantum mechanical atom models, legitimate explanations and mechanisms
- Editorial 68
- An integrated vision of the Green Chemistry evolution along 25 years
- A simple treatment of chemical equilibrium
- Conceptual polymorphism of entropy into the history: extensions of the second law of thermodynamics towards statistical physics and chemistry during nineteenth–twentieth centuries
- Making sense of a pedagogic text
- Eric Scerri and Elena Ghibaudi, eds: What is an element? A collection of essays by chemists, philosophers, historians, and educators
- What is an organic substance?
- Mendeleyev revisited
- Review of Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, The chemical philosophy of Robert Boyle: mechanicism, chymical atoms and emergence. Pp. x + 196, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020
- Editorial 67
- Response to Geoffrey Neuss on how to teach the 4s and 3d orbital conundrum
- An analysis of the difficulties associated with determining that a reaction in chemical equilibrium is incomplete
- A problem with explaining the electron configuration of scandium
- Liquid crystal chemistry and poetry
- Logics for algorithmic chemistries
- Correction to: The location and composition of Group 3 of the periodic table
- Geoff Rayner-Canham: The periodic table: past present, and future
- The location and composition of Group 3 of the periodic table
- Charles S. McCaw: Orbitals with applications in atomic spectra, 2nd edition
- Three related topics on the periodic tables of elements
- Guest-editorial
- Editorial 66
- On vague chemistry
- The QSAR similarity principle in the deep learning era: Confirmation or revision?
- On the early thermodynamic and kinetic deductions of the equilibrium constant equation
- Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz I
- Revolutionary poetry and liquid crystal chemistry: Herman Gorter, Ada Prins and the interface between literature and science
- Chemistry is pluralistic
- Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz II
- Organic chemistry as representation
- A new definition of reduction between two scientific theories: no reduction of chemistry to quantum mechanics
- Editorial 65
- A relational-constructionist account of protein macrostructure and function
- Ontological status of time in chemistry
- Prediction, accommodation and the periodic table: a reappraisal
- How to investigate the underpinnings of sciences? The case of the element chlorine
- Watch the colors: or about qualitative thinking in chemistry
- Philosophy, natural kinds, microstructuralism, and the (mis)use of chemical examples: intimacy versus integrity as orientations towards chemical practice
- A comment about the meaning and significance of life in the light of generalized crystallography
- A nuclear periodic table
- Elements of chemistry
- Early theoretical chemistry: Plato’s chemistry in Timaeus
- Molecular models and scientific realism
- Understanding molecular structure requires constructive realism
- Binódic periodic system: a mathematical approach
- Editorial 64
- How Mendeleev issued his predictions: comment on Andrea Woody
- Organising the metals and nonmetals
- A scale of atomic electronegativity in terms of atomic nucleophilicity index
- A scale of atomic electronegativity in terms of atomic nucleophilicity index
- Teaching of chemistry before and after the periodic table
- Chemistry as the basic science
- Two-step emergence: the quantum theory of atoms in molecules as a bridge between quantum mechanics and molecular chemistry
- Correction to: 4D-cubic lattice of chemical elements
- 4D-cubic lattice of chemical elements
- Pere Grapí: Inspiring air: a history of air-related science
- Overcoming skepticism about molecular structure by developing the concept of affordance
- Whom should we credit for the discovery of isotopes?
- The beginnings of a formal language for conceptual analysis of processes in macro-chemistry
- Reporting the discovery of new chemical elements: working in different worlds, only 25 years apart
- Model transfer and conceptual progress: tales from chemistry and biology
- Conceptual confusion in the chemistry curriculum: exemplifying the problematic nature of representing chemical concepts as target knowledge
- Boyle, Spinoza and Glauber: on the philosophical redintegration of saltpeter—a reply to Antonio Clericuzio
- The role of idealisations in describing an isolated molecule
- Editorial 63
- Giovanni Villani: Chemistry: A Systemic Complexity Science
- Editorial 62
- Guest editorial: ISPC 2015 special issue
- Statistical mechanical interpretation of temperature
- Mineral misbehavior: why mineralogists don’t deal in natural kinds
- Editorial 61
- From telluric helix to telluric remix
- Structure, shape, topology: entangled concepts in molecular chemistry
- Five ideas in chemical education that must die
- Émile Meyerson and mass conservation in chemical reactions: a priori expectations versus experimental tests
- Incompatible models in chemistry: the case of electronegativity
- The problem of optical isomerism and the interpretation of quantum mechanics
- The function of microstructure in Boyle’s chemical philosophy: ‘chymical atoms’ and structural explanation
- Re-evaluating semi-empirical computer simulations in quantum chemistry
- A new chapter in the problem of the reduction of chemistry to physics: the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules
- Thermodynamic foundations of physical chemistry: reversible processes and thermal equilibrium into the history
- Further light on the philosophical significance of Mackay’s theoretical discovery of crystalline pure possibilities
- Editorial 60
- Is the periodic table appears doubled? Two variants of division of elements into two subsets. Internal and secondary periodicity
- Research of chemical elements and chemical bonds from the view of complex network
- A historical/epistemological account of the foundation of the key ideas supporting chemical equilibrium theory
- The network theory: a new language for speaking about chemical elements relations through stoichiometric binary compounds
- Editorial 59
- Getting it right is not equivalent to getting it wrong
- What is chemistry that I may teach it?
- Priestley’s views on the composition of water and related airs
- What to make of Mendeleev’s predictions?
- Mendeleev’s predictions: success and failure
- Correction to: Valencies of the lanthanides
- Why molecular structure cannot be strictly reduced to quantum mechanics
- Editorial 58
- About continuity and rupture in the history of chemistry: the fourth chemical revolution (1945–1966)
- From “multiple simultaneous independent discoveries” to the theory of “multiple simultaneous independent errors”: a conduit in science
- Let us build better boats: an answer to Jeffrey Seeman’s “Moving beyond insularity in the history, philosophy, and sociology of chemistry”
- On the ‘true position’ of hydrogen in the Periodic Table
- “Climate change” and the “butterfly effect” in an eighteenth century monograph
- The atomic number revolution in chemistry: a Kuhnian analysis
- Tetrahedral and spherical representations of the periodic system
- On the position of helium and neon in the Periodic Table of Elements
- Early Industrial Roots of Green Chemistry and the history of the BHC Ibuprofen process invention and its Quality connection
- Theory comparison and choice in chemistry, 1766–1791
- A representation of the periodic system based on atomic-number triads
- The periodic table: revelation by quest rather than by revolution
- Erratum to: Valencies of the lanthanides
- An allegory on molecular periodicity
- Valencies of the lanthanides
- Basic principles of the strategy concerning the elucidation of configuration of chiral centers of linear isomeric aldohexoses
- The orbital: a pivotal concept in the relationship between chemistry and physics? A comment to the work by Fortin and coauthors
- Editorial 57
- Moving beyond insularity in the history, philosophy, and sociology of chemistry
- The development of problems within the phlogiston theories, 1766–1791
- A colourful bond between art and chemistry
- Editorial 56
- An alternative approach to unifying chemistry with quantum mechanics
- How to handle nanomaterials? The re-entry of individuals into the philosophy of chemistry
- Udagawa Youan’s (1798–1846) translation of light and heat reactions in his book Kouso Seimika
- Does a molecule have structure?
- A new philosophy of science from the history of arcane natural science
- Guest editorial
- Chemical substance, material, product, goods, waste: a changing ontology
- Chemical perspective in the study of living beings: a systemic complexity approach
- Realism and the history of chemistry
- Electronegativity and its multiple faces: persistence and measurement
- Chemistry, context and the objects of thought
- Content, design, and representation in chemistry
- The relationship between chemistry and physics from the perspective of Bohmian mechanics
- Guest Editorial
- Editorial 55
- Peter J. T. Morris: The Matter Factory : A History of the Chemistry Laboratory
- The fifth chemical revolution: 1973–1999
- Chemistry as a creative science
- Diagnostics in computational organic chemistry
- Isomerism and decoherence
- Eka-elements as chemical pure possibilities
- The periodic table and the model of emerging truth
- In memory of Professor Masanori Kaji (8 February 1956–18 July 2016)
- Chemistry as a practical science (Edward Caldin Revisited)
- Editorial 54
- On a quest of reverse translation
- Realism and the turn to practice