journals
CategoryNew: The Journal of Natural Law
The Journal of Natural Law is a new peer-reviewed journal “committed to publishing the best interdisciplinary research on natural law in philosophy, theology, and legal theory.” (more…)
How Much Time Do Journals Give Their Referees?
Elizabeth Hannon, deputy editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS), has a query about other philosophy journals. (more…)
New Journal: Experimental Philosophy
A new peer-reviewed open-access journal, Experimental Philosophy, has been launched. (more…)
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. (more…)
Ethics Announces AI Policy
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors, and reviewers. (more…)
Reviewing an LLM-written paper (guest post)
A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal. (more…)
Editor of Ethics Floats AI-Use Guidelines
In a recent editorial, Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), the editor-in-chief of Ethics, sets forth some “initial guidelines” about AI use for the journal. (more…)
Philosophy’s Journal Problem Captured in One Number?
In the first six months of 2025, a top philosophy journal received 403 submissions. Of those, how many did it accept during that time? (more…)
New: Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy
Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is a new, online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. (more…)
Arguments, Conclusions, and the Policies of Religious Academic Journals
“We do not publish any work advancing views that are clearly contrary to the established teachings of the Catholic
Church.” (more…)
Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends
“The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026.” (more…)
Nature to Include Reviewer Reports & Author Replies with Published Articles
From now on, “new submissions of manuscripts that are published as research articles in Nature will automatically include a link to the reviewers’ reports and author responses.” (more…)
New Editorial Team at Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
After serving for over two decades, Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) and Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen) have stepped down as co-editors-in-chief of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. (more…)
A Journal’s Experiment with Interdisciplinarity
Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed philosophy journal that publishes single-theme issues. For a recent issue they tried something new: a collection of articles that don’t have the typical hallmarks of philosophy. (more…)
A Mysterious Publication (updates, incl. response from publisher)
(ETA: See Update 5, below, from Springer.)
An article published recently in Synthese caught the eye of a few Daily Nous readers. (more…)
New Editor at Public Affairs Quarterly
Public Affairs Quarterly (PAQ) has a new editor-in-chief: Jessica Flanigan (University of Richmond).
The First Year of Political Philosophy (the Journal)
In the beginning of 2024, a new journal, Political Philosophy, started accepting submissions. How is it doing? (more…)
Competent Referees for Controversial Ideas
“I think Jeff McMahan is in for the surprise of his life when the submissions to his new journal start coming in.” (more…)
New Journal: Philosophy & Digitality
Philosophy & Digitality is a new open-access journal “devoted to the philosophical significance of digitalization and its impact on the humanities, cultural studies, and media studies.”
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New Editorial Team at Philosophy & Public Affairs
Philosophy & Public Affairs, the highly regarded philosophy journal whose future was put in doubt when all of its editors and editorial board resigned en masse this past spring to form a new journal, has a new editorial team. (more…)
BJPS Introduces “Letters to the Editor”
Has this ever happened to you? You read a philosophy paper, have one brief, specific point to make in response, realize that in order to make that point in print you have to write a whole full-sized article, and then wait for it to be refereed and accepted—and then you decide not to bother? (more…)
“Free & Equal” Now Open To Submissions
Free & Equal: a Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs, the open-access journal created by the editorial team that resigned en masse from the Wiley-published Philosophy & Public Affairs earlier this year, now has a home on the internet and as of today is accepting submissions. (more…)
No Editorial Team For 8 Months, But Wiley Keeps JPP Open for Submissions
“The Journal of Political Philosophy (JOPP) is currently undergoing changes to its editorial team and reviewing processes. As a result, the journal is experiencing a delay in processing manuscripts. If you submit your manuscript to JOPP, it will be received by our Editorial Office, but publication will be delayed. Thank you for your patience and support.”
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JESP Moves to More Transparent Submissions System
The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (JESP) has adopted the submissions system that was originally created for Ergo, which is known for being relatively transparent and user-friendly. (more…)
Journal Created from the Ashes of PPA Gets Name, Editor-In-Chief (updated)
In May, the executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of the influential journal, Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPA), resigned and in June PPA’s editor-in-chief, Anna Stilz (Berkeley) also left. (more…)
Ergo Eliminates “Major Revisions” Option for Editors and Referees
Philosophy journal Ergo has eliminated the “major revisions” category of editorial response to submissions. (more…)
Developments at the Philosophy Journal Insight Project (guest post)
The Philosophy Journal Insight Project, which collects and organizes information about philosophy journals, has grown a bit since we first reported on it last year and is asking journals to submit data via a new “operations survey”. (more…)
Academic Publisher Sells Authors’ Work to Microsoft for AI Training
The international academic publishing company Taylor and Francis says “it is providing Microsoft non-exclusive access to advanced learning content and data to help improve relevance and performance of AI systems”. (more…)