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Environmental Philosophy and Ecological Thought
edited by
submission deadline 10 Dec 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16032 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental philosophy; ecological thought; philosophy of nature; justice; crisis; the Anthropocene; geoengineering
Clinical Ethics and Philosophy
edited by Mario Picozzi and
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6972 | Submission Open
Keywords: clinical ethics; methods in clinical ethics; philosophical foundations of clinical ethics; ethics committee; clinical ethics consultations; ethics expertise
The Aesthetics of the Performing Arts in the Contemporary Landscape
edited by Alessandro Giovanni Bertinetto and Lisa Giombini
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3725 | Submission Open
Keywords: performing arts; aesthetic experience and performative beauty; ontology of art; emotions and expression; authenticity; interpretation; improvisation; fiction and performance; aesthetic atmosphere; audience and spectatorship; artistic genres and styles; aesthetics; ethics and politics
Philosphies of Love
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 376 | Submission Open
Keywords: love; phenomenology; philosophical anthropology; self/selfhood; affection; literature
Ancient and Medieval Theories of Soul
edited by and Dimitrios Vasilakis
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9880 | Submission Open
Keywords: soul and body; cognition; desire; imagination; faculties and divisions of soul; intellect; perception; will
Exploring Concepts of Time and Tense
edited by Peter Øhrstrøm
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2425 | Submission Open
Keywords: tensed facts; tense logic; the passing of time; the Now; beginning; ending; circular time; branching time; future contingency
Metaphysics Today: A Modern Perspective submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 509 | Submission Open
Keywords: metaphysics; foundations; ultimate knowledge
Plant Poesis: Aesthetics, Philosophy and Indigenous Thought
edited by Patricia I Vieira
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6936 | Submission Open
Agnosticism in the 21st Century
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submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7168 | Submission Open
Keywords: agnosticism; atheism; scepticism; new agnosticism; ultimism; Ietsism; religious agnosticism; non-doxasticism; hope; the axiology of theism
Computing Physical Reality. Philosophical Perspectives and Scientific Challenges
edited by Massimiliano Badino, Rocco Gaudenzi and Rossella Lupacchini
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 318 | Submission Open
Keywords: computation; physics; simulation; epistemology; scientific practices; approximation; computational systems; machine learning
Semantics and Computation
edited by Raymond Turner and Henri Stephanou
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 562 | Submission Open
Keywords: denotational semantics; operational semantics; sense; reference; programming languages; computing process; compositionality
New Paths in the Philosophy of Imitating and Learning from Nature
edited by Henry Dicks and Marco Tamborini
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 331 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomimetics; bioinspiration; biomimicry; environmental ethics; philosophy of science; philosophy of technology; nature-inspired design; learning from nature; sustainability; AI and robotics
Saul Kripke's Contributions to the Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Logic
edited by Joseph Almog
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy; the place of infinity in understanding nature; philosophy of language and philosophy of logic
Comparative Study of the Concepts of Self-Transcendence, Value and Power in the Works of Emerson and Zhuang Zi
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open
Keywords: self-transcendence; value and power; Emerson and Zhuang Zi
Kyoto School: Synthesis of Eastern Intellectual Tradition and Western Philosophy
edited by Viren Murthy
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 219 | Submission Open
Keywords: Kyoto school of philosophy; Asian philosophy; comparative philosophy; modernity
Collective Agency and Intentionality
edited by and Yiyan Wang
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open
Keywords: collective and individual agency and logics for agency and multi-agent systems; ; collective and individual intentionality and logics for decision-making; ; social ontology and forms of identity; ; individuals in social networks and group dynamics;
Aristotelian Ethics
edited by Shane D. Drefcinski
submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open
Keywords: Aristotle; happiness; virtue; ethics; politics; justice; current ethical challenges; practical reasoning and human action
(This special issue belongs to the Section Virtues)
Ethical Concerns in Early Confucianism
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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 286 | Submission Open
Keywords: early Confucianism; ethical concerns; classical text; representative; ethical argument; ethical debate
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; philosophy of AI; AI governance; AI ethics; cognitive science; interdisciplinary collaboration; metaphysics of AI; foundational research; future perspectives; theoretical innovation
Philosophy of Sport and Physical Culture
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submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 232 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy of sport; physical activity; embodiment; games; physical culture; aesthetics; ethics; dance; martial arts
The First International Online Conference Special Issue of the Journal Philosophies: “Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence” Contributing to the 2025 IS4SI Summit submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open
Keywords: the epistemological status of intelligence; intelligence and creativity; intelligence and consciousness
Phenomenologies of Illness and Normality: Critical Engagements with Merleau-Ponty
edited by Gail Weiss and Lisa Käll
submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 356 | Submission Open
Keywords: critical phenomenology; embodiment; illness; normality; disability; pathologization; vulnerability
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