Theoretical & Computational Chemistry

Writing Across the Chemistry Curriculum: An Instructors Handbook. J. Kovac and D.W. Sherwood (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2001).

The Ethical Chemist: Professionalism and Ethics in Science. J. Kovac (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2004).

Refusing War, Affirming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks. J. Kovac (Oregon State University Press, 2009).

Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art and Science of Chemistry, edited by Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg (Oxford University Press, New York 2011)

Dynamics of polymers near the theta point. J. Kovac, pp. 197-201 in Numerical Methods for Polymeric Systems, vol. 102 in the series IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, S.G. Whittington, ed. (Springer, New York, 1998).

Writing as thinking. J. Kovac, pp. 233-238 in Chemical Explanation: Characteristics, Development, Autonomy, vol. 988 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, J.E. Earley, Sr., ed. (2003). (online at http://www.annalsnyas.org)

J. Kovac, "Professional ethics in physical science," in D. Baird, E. Scerri, and L. McIntyre, eds., Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 242, Dordrecht: Springer, 2006, pp.157-169.

A variable-structure cell model of two-dimensional liquids and glasses. F.L. Somer, Jr. and J. Kovac, J. Chem. Phys. 102, 8995 (1995).

A weird insult from Norway: Linus Pauling as public intellectual. J. Kovac, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 82(1-2), 91 (Spring/Summer 1999).

Science, law, and the ethics of expertise. J. Kovac, Tenn. Law Rev. 67, 397 (2000).

Universities as moral communities. J. Kovac and B.P. Coppola, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 83(3-4), 765 (2000).

Student-active learning in physical chemistry. R.J. Hinde and J. Kovac, J. Chem. Educ. 78, 93 (2001).

Gifts and commodities in chemistry. J. Kovac, Hyle: Int. J. Phil. Chem. 7, 141 (2001). (online at http://www.hyle.org)

Theoretical and practical reasoning in chemistry. J. Kovac, Found. Chem. 4, 163 (2002).

C. Davis and J. Kovac, "Confrontation at the Locks: A National Protest of the Japanese Removal and Incarceration," Oregon Historical Quarterly, 107 (4), 486-509, Winter 2006.

J. Kovac, "Moral Rules, Moral Ideals and Use-Inspired Research," Science and Engineering Ethics, 13, 159-169, (2007).