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Foundations of Chemistry is an international journal which seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum where chemists, biochemists, philosophers, historians, educators and sociologists with an interest in foundational issues can discuss conceptual and fundamental issues which relate to the `central science' of chemistry. Such issues include the autonomous role of chemistry between physics and biology and the question of the reduction of chemistry to quantum mechanics.

The journal will publish peer-reviewed academic articles on a wide range of subdisciplines, among others: chemical models, chemical language, metaphors, and theoretical terms; chemical evolution and artificial self-replication; industrial application, environmental concern, and the social and ethical aspects of chemistry's professionalism; the nature of modeling and the role of instrumentation in chemistry; institutional studies and the nature of explanation in the chemical sciences; theoretical chemistry, molecular structure and chaos; the issue of realism; molecular biology, bio-inorganic chemistry; historical studies on ancient chemistry, medieval chemistry and alchemy; philosophical and historical articles; and material of a didactic nature relating to all topics in the chemical sciences.

Foundations of Chemistry plans to feature special issues devoted to particular themes, and will contain book reviews and discussion notes.

Audience: chemists, biochemists, philosophers, historians, chemical educators, sociologists, and other scientists with an interest in the foundational issues of science.

Editor-in-Chief:
Eric R. Scerri, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Editorial Board
M. Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA; O.T. Benfey, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Dept. of Chemistry, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC; J. van Brakel, Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium; J.E. Earley, Chemistry Dept., Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA; G. Fisher, Kaist, Daejon, South Korea; ; K. Gavroglu, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Athens, Greece; E. Ghibaudi, University of Torino, Torino, Italy; H. Goldwhite, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Los Angeles; I. Hargittai, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary; R.F. Hendry, Dept. of Philosophy, Durham University, UK; E. Lohkivi, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; O. Lombardi, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; C. Matta, Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada; OH, USA; A. Müller, Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld, Germany; P. Needham, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, Sweden; M.J. Nye, Dept. of History, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA; R. Pisano, Department of Physics, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille-1), France; K. Pulkkinen, KHT, Stockholm, Sweden; K. Ruthenberg, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany; J. Schummer, Dept of Philosophy, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; E. Schwarz, University Siegen, Germany; K. Taber, University of Cambridge, UK; A. Woody, University of Washington, Seattle, USA;