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Numerous conferences and publications have been devoted to this field, leading to the creation of two new journals, Hyle; International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry, and Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry -- the 'official journal' of the ISPC.
This field includes "internal" questions concerning the practices that are unique to chemical research, as well as "external" issues -- addressing the relationship between chemistry and other disciplines.
The intermediate position which chemistry occupies between physics and biology is of particular interest.
There is growing interest is how concepts and insights deriving from the philosophy of chemistry may bear on current and perennial problems in parts of philosophy other than philosophy of science (e.g., metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ...).