World Philosophy Day—20 November 2025
World Philosophy Day, which is celebrated annually on the third Thursday of November, highlights philosophy’s lasting importance in shaping human thought, culture, and individual growth. This day is promoted to recognize philosophy as both an inspiring discipline and a daily practice that fosters reflection and dialogue across cultures. By encouraging open discussion and critical thinking, philosophy nurtures tolerance, respect, and understanding, which are all key elements in addressing modern global challenges.
To contribute to this ongoing discussion, MDPI journals offer platforms for advancing philosophical inquiry across a wide spectrum of philosophical disciplines. Through our Special Issues, research articles, and scholarly perspectives, these journals explore how philosophy intersects with ethics, politics, technology, religion, and literature.
MDPI’s journals aim to facilitate philosophical dialogue, encouraging the exchange of ideas that deepen our understanding of humanity’s place in an increasingly complex world. By promoting reflective analysis, these journals aim to help illuminate fundamental questions about knowledge, existence, values, freedom, and human responsibility.
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“Thus Spoke… Friedrich Nietzsche on the Sophists”
by Laura Viidebaum
Humanities 2025, 14(7), 141; https://doi.org/10.3390/h14070141
“Plato Under Review: What Is Going Wrong in Academic Philosophical Writing”
by Giacomo Pezzano
Humanities 2025, 14(6), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/h14060116
“Hölderlin: Between Kant and the Greeks”
by Àlex Mumbrú Mora
Humanities 2025, 14(4), 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/h14040083
“Effectual Truth and the Machiavellian Enterprise”
by Dustin Gish
Literature 2025, 5(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/literature5010006
“Faith, Knowledge, and the Ausgang of Classical German Philosophy: Jacobi, Hegel, Feuerbach”
by Todd Gooch
Religions 2024, 15(5), 618; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050618
“Συνουσία in Late Antique Neoplatonic Schools: A Concept between Social History, History of Education and History of Philosophy”
by Marco Alviz Fernández and David Hernández de la Fuente
Literature 2024, 4(1), 45–61; https://doi.org/10.3390/literature4010004
Special Issues:
| “The Thinker as Artist and the Artist as Thinker—Literature and the History of Political Philosophy” Guest Editor: Dr. Dustin Gish Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 |
“Logic in Traditional Chinese Academic Study” Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Bo Chen and Prof. Dr. Jincheng Zhai Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 |
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“Situated Religious Cognition in Jamesian Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion”
by Sami Pihlström
Religions 2024, 15(7), 815; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15070815
“From Circle to Cycloid: The Philosophical Value of Religious Cult in Maurice Blondel’s L’Action”
by Jonathan Martin Ciraulo
Religions 2024, 15(3), 283; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15030283
“From Philosophy of Religion to Philosophy of Religious Experience: On New Tendencies in French Phenomenology of Religion”
by Przemysław Zgórecki
Religions 2024, 15(1), 120; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010120
Special Issues:
| “Continental Philosophy and Catholic Theology” Guest Editor: Dr. Glenn Morrison Submission deadline: 31 March 2026 |
“Perspectives in Contemporary Catholic Philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Metaphysics” Guest Editor: Dr. Alan Vincelette Submission deadline: 1 June 2026 |
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“Feminist Values and Plumwood’s Account of Logic”
by Mansooreh Kimiagari
Logics 2025, 3(3), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/logics3030007
“Knowability as Continuity: A Topological Account of Informational Dependence”
by Alexandru Baltag and Johan van Benthem
Logics 2025, 3(3), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/logics3030006
“On the Interpretation of Denotational Semantics”
by Felice Cardone
Philosophies 2025, 10(3), 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies10030054
“Future Actuality and Truth Ascriptions”
by Andrea Iacona and Giuseppe Spolaore
Philosophies 2025, 10(2), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies10020041
“Why Logics?”
by Jean-Yves Beziau
Logics 2023, 1(3), 148–156; https://doi.org/10.3390/logics1030007
“A Fundamental Non-Classical Logic”
by Wesley H. Holliday
Logics 2023, 1(1), 36–79; https://doi.org/10.3390/logics1010004
“Henri Bergson’s Haunted Epistemology: Consciousness Unframed”
by Adam Lovasz
Literature 2023, 3(1), 66–79; https://doi.org/10.3390/literature3010005
Special Issues:
| “The Dawn of Aspects: Wittgenstein and the Life of Meaning” Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Victor J. Krebs, Prof. Dr. Gordon Bearn and Dr. Niklas Toivakainen Submission deadline: 10 February 2026 |
“Debating Temporal Ontology: The Existence of Yesterday and Tomorrow” Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Kristie Miller Submission deadline: 31 July 2026 |
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“Sacrificial Love (Of Cyborgs, Saviors, and Driller, a Real Robot Killer) in the Comics Descender and Ascender”
by Peter Admirand
Humanities 2025, 14(4), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/h14040091
“Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Ethical AI Governance in Europe”
by Linda Hogan and Marta Lasek-Markey
Philosophies 2024, 9(6), 181; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9060181
“Why We Should Be Curious about Each Other”
by Lisa Bortolotti and Kathleen Murphy-Hollies
Philosophies 2023, 8(4), 71; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8040071
Special Issues:
| “More-than-Human Ethics: Rethinking Nature, Dwelling, and Responsibility” Guest Editor: Dr. Luca Valera Submission deadline: 15 March 2026 |
“Foundations of Artificial Intelligence” Guest Editor: Dr. Sebastian Sunday Grève Submission deadline: 15 March 2026 |
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| “Consciousness in the Age of Intelligent Systems: Philosophical Frameworks, Neural Theories, and Generative AI” Guest Editors: Dr. James Hutson and Dr. Luca M. Possati Submission deadline: 15 May 2026 |
“Film and Philosophy” Guest Editor: Dr. Corin Depper Submission deadline: 1 June 2026 |
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The 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies Organizer: MDPI and Philosophies Volume Editors: Marcin J. Schroeder and Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Highlights:
Click here to read the full list of papers! |