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.
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Roald Hoffmann on the philosophy, art, and science of chemistry by Roald Hoffmann. ISBN 9780199755905. Published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
