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Can philosophy make worthwhile contributions to science? Eric Scerri thinks it can, and looks at what it has brought to the table for chemistry.

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  1. Eric R. Scerri is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles and is the author of The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007). scerri@chem.ucla.edu,

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