Editors at Springer’s Journal of Philosophical Logic Resign, Launch New Open Access Journal

All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal, Philosophical Logic.

It appears that all of those editors, as well as the executive board and editorial board members from The Journal of Philosophical Logic, will be taking up their same roles at the new journal.

The following is an announcement from the editors, board members, and former editors of The Journal of Philosophical Logic about their actions:

All Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors of the Journal of Philosophical Logic, currently published by Springer Nature, have informed Springer Nature of their resignation. Some of the editors will continue working for Springer Nature for a limited period. They will keep processing papers through the review and publication pipeline for the Journal of Philosophical Logic until the end of their terms.

The Journal of Philosophical Logic was founded in 1972 by Nicholas Rescher with Bas van Fraassen serving as the first Editor-in-Chief. It was originally published by D. Reidel Publishing, later by Kluwer, and finally by Springer. In accordance with The Journal of Philosophical Logic Charter, an Executive Board has overseen the selection of editors for the journal.

Today marks the launch of a new Diamond Open Access journal, Philosophical Logic, published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and not affiliated with Springer Nature or the Journal of Philosophical Logic published by Springer Nature. The undersigned support efforts to make academic research—produced, refereed, and curated by scholars—as accessible as possible to both the academic community and society at large. We are encouraged by several recent launches of Diamond Open Access journals in Logic and Philosophy, including Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik, as well as Political Philosophy and Free and Equal, both published by OLH, following successful launches of Diamond Open Access journals in nearby fields, such as Glossa and Open Mind.

Philosophical Logic welcomes original research in all areas of philosophical logic. The new journal will maintain the same high editorial standards that we upheld at the Journal of Philosophical Logic. In our view, hiring and promotion committees should regard publication in Philosophical Logic as no less significant than publication in the Journal of Philosophical Logic was before.

The undersigned members of the Executive Board have been part of the Journal of Philosophical Logic as authors, reviewers, or editors for decades. It is the view of the Executive Board that Rescher’s vision of a journal serving the philosophical logic community lives on with Philosophical Logic. We are grateful to OLH for committing to long-term funding of Philosophical Logic.

We thank the philosophical logic community for its support in the launch of Philosophical Logic, and we look forward to receiving your submissions at https://www.philosophical-logic.org!

Sincerely,

The outgoing Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Philosophical Logic and incoming Editors of Philosophical Logic
Wesley H. Holliday, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Thomas Icard, Stanford University, USA
Francesca Poggiolesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

The outgoing Associate Editors of the Journal of Philosophical Logic and incoming Editors of Philosophical Logic
Marta Bílková, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Republic
Ivano Ciardelli, University of Padua, Italy
Alexander Kocurek, University of California, San Diego, USA
Johannes Korbmacher, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Toby Meadows, University of California, Irvine, USA
Lavinia Picollo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yanjing Wang, Peking University, China

The Members of the Executive Board of the Journal of Philosophical Logic and Members of the Executive Board of Philosophical Logic
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Stanford University, USA
Kit Fine, New York University, USA
John F. Horty, University of Maryland, USA
Rohit Parikh, City University of New York, USA
Robert Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Philosophical Logic and Members of the Editorial Board of Philosophical Logic
Giovanna Corsi, University of Bologna, Italy
Charles B. Cross, University of Georgia, USA
James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Alan Hájek, Australian National University, Australia
Sven-Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Richard Kimberly Heck, Brown University, USA
Andreas Herzig, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
Barteld Kooi, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts, USA
Hannes Leitgeb, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Germany
David Makinson, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Friederike Moltmann, Université Côte D’Azur, Nice, France
Reinhard Muskens, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hiroakira Ono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Graham Priest, University of Melbourne, Australia, City University of New York, USA, and University of St Andrews, UK
Hans Rott, University of Regensburg, Germany
Jason Stanley, University of Toronto, Canada
Eric Swanson, University of Michigan, USA
Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Heinrich Wansing, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Kai Wehmeier, University of California, Irvine, USA
Ming Xu, Wuhan University, China

Former Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Philosophical Logic
Hans van Ditmarsch, CNRS, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Rosalie Iemhoff, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Greg Restall, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Frank Veltman, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Albert Visser, Utrecht University, Netherlands

On its website, the new journal is described as “an international scientific journal that provides a venue for research at the intersection of philosophy and logic, with contributions ranging from conceptual analysis to technical developments.” It “invites papers not only in the traditional areas of philosophical logic but also on extensions of logic to new areas of application and on the philosophical issues to which these give rise.”