Roald Hoffmann on the philosophy, art, and science of chemistry [electronic resource] / edited by Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg.
Hoffmann, Roald.; Kovac, Jeffrey.; Weisberg, Michael.
2012
QD6 .H64 2012eb
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Title Roald Hoffmann on the philosophy, art, and science of chemistry [electronic resource] / edited by Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg.
Author Hoffmann, Roald.
ISBN 9780199755905 hardcover
9780199921072 electronic book
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 390 p.)
Call Number QD6 .H64 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 540
Summary "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 A few are unpublished lectures that are valuable additions to the volume.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 The unpublished lectures will also be edited since they were originally intended to be delivered orally at specific occasions.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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Michael Weisberg and Jeffrey Kovac.
1 Trying to Understand, Making Bonds, by Roald Hoffmann
Part 1: Chemical Reasoning and Explanation
2. Why Buy That Theory?, by Roald Hoffmann.
3. What Might Philosophy of Science Look Like If Chemists Built It?, by Roald Hoffmann
4. Unstable, by Roald Hoffmann
5. Nearly Circular Reasoning, by Roald Hoffmann
6. Ockham's Razor and Chemistry, by Roald Hoffmann, Vladimir I. Minkin, and Barry K. Carpenter
7. Qualitative Thinking in the Age of Modern Computational Chemistry, or What Lionel Salem Knows, by Roald Hoffmann
8. Narrative, by Roald Hoffmann
9. Learning from Molecules in Distress, by Roald Hoffmann and Henning Hopf
10. Why Think Up New Molecules? by Roald Hoffmann
11. Protean, by Roald Hoffmann and Pierre Laszlo
12. How Should Chemists Think? by Roald Hoffmann
Part 2: Writing and Communicating in Chemistry
13. Under the Surface of the Chemical Article, by Roald Hoffmann
14. Representation in Chemistry, by Roald Hoffmann and Pierre Laszlo
15. The Say of Things, by 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, by Emily R. Grosholz and Roald Hoffmann
17 How Nice to Be an Outsider, by Roald Hoffmann
18. The Metaphor, Unchained, by Roald Hoffmann,
Part 3: Art and Science
19. Art in Science? by Roald Hoffmann
20. Science and Crafts by Roald Hoffmann
21. Molecular Beauty, by Roald Hoffmann
Part 4 Chemical Education
22. Teach to Search by Roald Hoffmann
23. Some Heretical Thoughts on What Our Students Are Telling Us, by Roald Hoffmann and Brian P. Coppola
24 Very Specific Teaching Strategies, and Why They Work, by Roald Hoffmann and Saundra Y. McGuire
Part 5 Ethics in Science
25. Mind the Shade, by Roald Hoffmann
26. Science and Ethics: A Marriage of Necessity and Choice for this Millennium," by Roald Hoffmann
27. Honesty to the Singular Object, by Roald Hoffmann
28. The Material and Spiritual Rationales Are Inseparable, by Roald Hoffmann
Index.

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