This issue begins the sixteenth year of our publication. It consists of the second part of the special issue dedicated to the late Richard Bader and edited by Cherif Matta one of his former students. For an extensive editorial covering the contents of both parts of the special issue readers should consult issue 3 of volume 15.Footnote 1

I would like to mention two recent items that may be of interest to readers. The first is that Lee McIntyre and I have been asked by the publisher Springer to edit a second edition of our book that first appeared in 2005.Footnote 2 The new edition is almost ready and contains contributions from many well-known philosophers of chemistry as well as some relative newcomers. They are Marina Banchetti-Robinho, Joseph Earley, Grant Fisher, Rom Harré, Hinne Hettema, Jean Pierre Llored, Olimpia Lombardi, Farzad Mahootian, Alexander Manafu, Paul Needham, Klaus Ruthenberg, Joachim Schummer and Pieter Thyssen together with Koen Binnermans.

The second announcement concerns the 18th annual international meeting of our society that is to be held at the London School of Economics, from Monday-Wednesday, 7–9th July 2014, in the Lakatos Building (LAK 2.06). The organizer Rom Harré tells me that there will be a number of invited speakers including Sir Paul Nurse the Nobel Prizewinning biochemist and a president of the Royal Society since 2010. For further details about the conference including submission deadlines, travel details, registration etc. please see, http://www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/events/Conferences/ispc2014.aspx.

The following is a complete list of previous meetings;

Location

Year

Organizer

Ilkley, UK

(1997)

Michael Akerod

Cambridge, UK

(1998)

Michael Akeroyd

Columbia, SC, USA

(1999)*

Davis Baird

Poznan, Poland

(2000)

Ewa Zielonaka-Lis

Loughborough, UK

(2001)

Tony Edmonds

Washington, DC, USA

(2002)

Joseph Earley

Tartu, Estonia

(2003)

Rein Vihallem

Durham, UK

(2004)

Robin Hendry

Knoxville, TN, USA

(2005)

Jeffrey Kovac

Split, Croatia

(2006)

Hrvoj Vancik

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2007)

Tami Spector

Coburg, Germany

(2008)

Klaus Ruthenberg

Philadelphia, PA, USA

(2009)

Michael Weisberg

Oxford, UK

(2010)

Rom Harré

Bogota, Colombia,

(2011)

Guillermo Restrepo and José Luis Villaveces

Leuven, Belgium

(2012)

Pieter Thyssen and Brigitte Van Tigglen

Montevideo, Uruguay

(2013)

Lucia Lewowicz

  1. * The first volume of Foundations of Chemistry appeared in 1999