Preface 1. Heavy, Superheavy...Quo Vadis? 2. Nuclear Lattice Model and the Electronic Configuration of the Chemical Elements 3. Amateurs and Professionals in Chemistry: The Case of the Periodic System 4. The Periodic System: A Mathematical Approach 5. The "Chemical Mechanics" of the Periodic Table 6. The Grand Periodic Function 7. What Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table? 8. The Periodic Table Retrieved from Density Functional Theory Based Concepts: The Electron Density, the Shape Function and the Linear Response Function 9. Resemioticization of Periodicity: A Social Semiotic Perspective 10. Organizing the Transition Metals 11. The Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions: A New Periodic Table Founded on Non-Traditional Concepts 12. The Origin of Mendeleev's Discovery of the Periodic System 13. Richard Abegg and the Periodic Table 14. The Chemist as Philosopher: D. I. Mendeleev's "The Unit" and "Worldview" 15. The Philosophical Importance of the Periodic Table

The volume, edited by Eric Scerri and Guillermo Restrepo – both renowned experts on the philosophical questions related to the periodic system – will cement OUP's reputation as one of the most fruitful publishers of scholarship on the periodic table. The book comprises fifteen chapters which approach the subject from a commendable range of angles, so the volume delivers what its title promises.

"The volume, edited by Eric Scerri and Guillermo Restrepo DS both renowned experts on the philosophical questions related to the periodic system DS will cement OUP's reputation as one of the most fruitful publishers of scholarship on the periodic table. The book comprises fifteen chapters which approach the subject from a commendable range of angles, so the volume delivers what its title promises." -- Karoliina Pulkkinen, University of Cambridge, Ambix "[These] individual essays are of considerable interest and value to this field of research." --Peter Hodder, Chemistry in New Zealand

Selling point: Author is a leading philosopher of science and has a proven track record editing philosophy of chemistry volumes Selling point: "Philosophy of chemistry" is a new and exciting discipline, and this volume is the first to compile multidisciplinary perspectives on the Periodic Table Selling point: Features a preface written by Roald Hoffmann Selling point: Heavily illustrated with multiple diagrams and figures

Eric Scerri is a full-time lecturer at UCLA. He is the author of numerous OUP books including A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science (2016) and The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction (2012). Guillermo Restrepo is a visiting professor in the Bioinformatics Group at Leipzig University.

Selling point: Author is a leading philosopher of science and has a proven track record editing philosophy of chemistry volumes Selling point: "Philosophy of chemistry" is a new and exciting discipline, and this volume is the first to compile multidisciplinary perspectives on the Periodic Table Selling point: Features a preface written by Roald Hoffmann Selling point: Heavily illustrated with multiple diagrams and figures