Roald Hoffmann on the philosophy, art, and science of chemistry ed. by Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Trying to understand, making bonds Roald Hoffmann

Part 1: Chemical Reasoning and Explanation. 2. Why buy that theory? Roald Hoffmann

3. What might philosophy of science look like if chemists built it? Roald Hoffmann

4. Unstable Roald Hoffmann

5. Nearly circular reasoning Roald Hoffmann

6. Ockham's razor and chemistry Roald Hoffmann, Vladimir I. Minkin, and Barry K. Carpenter

7. Qualitative thinking in the age of modern computational chemistry, or What Lionel Salem knows Roald Hoffmann

8. Narrative Roald Hoffmann

9. Learning from molecules in distress Roald Hoffmann and Henning Hopf

10. Why think up new molecules? Roald Hoffmann

11. Protean Roald Hoffmann and Pierre Laszlo

12. How should chemists think? Roald Hoffmann

Part 2: Writing and communicating in chemistry. 13. Under the surface of the chemical article Roald Hoffmann

14. Representation in chemistry Roald Hoffmann and Pierre Laszlo

15. The say of things Roald Hoffmann and Pierre Laszlo

16. How symbolic and iconic languages bridge the two worlds of the chemist: a case study from contemporary bioorganic chemistry Emily R. Grosholz and Roald Hoffmann

17. How nice to be an outsider Roald Hoffmann

18. The metaphor, unchained Roald Hoffmann

Part 3: Art and science. 19. Art in science? Roald Hoffmann

20. Science and crafts Roald Hoffmann

21. Molecular beauty Roald Hoffmann

Part 4: Chemical education. 22. Teach to search Roald Hoffmann

23. Some heretical thoughts on what our students are telling us Roald Hoffmann and Brian P. Coppola

24. Specific learning and teaching strategies that work, and why they do so Roald Hoffmann and Saundra Y. McGuire

Part 5: Ethics in science. 25. Mind the shade Roald Hoffmann

26. Science and ethics: a marriage of necessity and choice for this millennium Roald Hoffmann

27. Honesty to the singular object Roald Hoffmann

28. The material and spiritual rationales are inseparable Roald Hoffmann.

"Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known; this Nobel laureate has published more than 500 articles and two books. As an "applied theoretical chemist," he has made significant contributions to our understanding of chemical bonding and reactivity, and taught two generations of chemists how to use molecular orbitals for real chemistry. Less well known, however, are Hoffmann's important and insightful contributions to the areas of scholarship surrounding chemistry. Over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Roald Hoffmann has thought and written copiously about the broader context of chemistry and its relationship to the arts and poetry. This book contains Hoffmann's essays and is organized around several major themes: chemical reasoning and explanation, writing and communicating in science, ethics, art and science, and chemical education. A few are unpublished lectures that are valuable additions to the volume. The editors have the full cooperation of Roald Hoffmann in this project. Most of the published work will be reprinted verbatim, but a few of the essays will be revised to eliminate redundancy. The unpublished lectures will also be edited since they were originally intended to be delivered orally at specific occasions. The editors will provide an introduction to the book, and some introductory material for each section. In introducing the material, they will highlight the intrinsic importance and interest of the ideas, as well as the places where Hoffmann's thought makes novel contributions to cognate areas"--

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