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Adam Smith's Philosophy and Modern Moral Economics
edited by Mark Rathbone
submission deadline 27 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5211 | Submission Open
Keywords: Adam Smith; moral economics; sympathy; self-interest; justice; happiness; ethics
Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2565 | Submission Open
Keywords: the epistemological status of intelligence; intelligence and creativity; intelligence and consciousness
Ancient Greek Philosophy (Nomos vs. Physis—Convention vs. Nature)
edited by Abduljaleel Alwali
submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 691 | Submission Open
Keywords: nomos (convention); physis (nature); social constructivism; transhumanism; algorithmic bias; gender identity; bioethics; ethical implications; moral relativism; human nature
The Logical Linguistic Legacy of Montague Grammar
edited by Glyn Morrill
submission deadline 10 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2333 | Submission Open
Keywords: compositionality; focusing; formulas-as-types/proofs-as-programs Curry– Howard correspondence; intensional logic; lambda calculus; logical categorial grammar; logical syntax and semantics; parsing-as-deduction; proof nets; type logic
Mereology in Metaphysics, Science and Logic
edited by Joshua Spencer
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2998 | Submission Open
Keywords: mereology; parts and composition; simples; persistence and spacetime; modality; indeterminacy; foundations of mathematics; neo-Aristotelianism or hylomorphism; meta-metaphysics; quantifier variance
More-than-Human Ethics: Rethinking Nature, Dwelling, and Responsibility
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 884 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental philosophy; responsibility; ecological crisis; dwelling; ethics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Virtues)
Contingency, Crisis, and the Political: Political Ontology in the Post-Truth Epoch
edited by
submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 580 | Submission Open
Keywords: post-foundationalism; political ontology; political theory; post-truth; contingency; antagonism; hegemony; normativity; epistemic crisis; democracy; symbolic void
Entangled Realities: Bridging Physics, Cosmology, and Philosophical Insight submission deadline 10 May 2026 | Viewed by 328 | Submission Open
Keywords: physics; cosmology; metaphysics; philosophy of nature; space-time; gravitation; formation of structure; self-organization; complexity theory; theory of systems; ethical implications
Ontological Perspectives in the Philosophy of Physics
edited by
submission deadline 11 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3196 | Submission Open
Keywords: conceptual history of physics; foundations of physics; ontology; unification; spacetime metaphysics; quantum mechanics interpretations; emergence; arrow of time; symmetry and gauge invariance; entropy and coarse-graining
Philosophy and Popular Culture
edited by Lars Konzack
submission deadline 14 May 2026 | Viewed by 280 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy of culture; popular culture; media philosophy; esthetics; ethics; ontology; digital humanities; mass media; imagination; critical theory
Consciousness in the Age of Intelligent Systems: Philosophical Frameworks, Neural Theories, and Generative AI
edited by and Luca M. Possati
submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8054 | Submission Open
Keywords: consciousness; philosophy of mind; phenomenology; neural theories (GNW; IIT); predictive processing; enactivism and embodiment; machine consciousness; agency and responsibility; measurement of consciousness; philosophy of information
Metaphysics and Mind in Chinese Philosophy
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3319 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese philosophy; metaphysics; mind; Confucianism; Daoism; Buddhism; history; religion; comparative philosophy
Foundations in Flux: Process Metaphysics and Its Scientific Applications
edited by Maximilian Zachrau and Cord Friebe
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1889 | Submission Open
Keywords: process philosophy; dynamicity; scientific metaphysics; biological organization; fundamentality; philosophy of time
Philosophical Contexts for Reading Poetry
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 946 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophical contexts; poetic language; metaphor and meaning; esthetics and ethics; phenomenology of art; poetic knowledge
The Dawn of Aspects: Wittgenstein and the Life of Meaning
edited by , Gordon Bearn and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 633 | Submission Open
Keywords: Wittgenstein; aspect-seeing; ethics and aesthetics; ordinary language; perception and experience; care of the self; form of life; responsiveness; feeling and expression; philosophical practice
Knowledge and Conditionals—Reliability, Probability, Counterfactuals, and Relevance
edited by Lars Bo Gundersen
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 303 | Submission Open
Keywords: reliabilism; sensitivity; safety; counterfactuals; irrelevant semifactuals; conjunction conditionalization; probability; relevance
Critical Theory in the Age of Digital Capitalism
edited by Craig Reeves, Jaakko Nevasto and
submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 370 | Submission Open
Keywords: critical theory; digital capitalism; social media; AI; work; politics; attention economy
Kierkegaard, Doubt and Virtue in a Time of Crisis
edited by and Caecilie Varslev-Pedersen
submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 195 | Submission Open
Keywords: Kierkegaard; virtue; doubt; crisis; epistemology; scepticism; ethics
Debating Temporal Ontology: The Existence of Yesterday and Tomorrow
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1104 | Submission Open
Keywords: temporal ontology; time; temporal passage; B-theory; A-theory; block universe; eternalism; presentism; growing block; truthmaking
The Film-Philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze
edited by Jeroen Gerrits and
submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 377 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophies of film and media; Stanley Cavell; Gilles Deleuze; cinema; time; skepticism
The Logical Foundations of Quantum Physics and AI: A Philosophical Reflection on Formal Methods
edited by Xiaolong Wan and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 501 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy of quantum physics; philosophy of artificial intelligence; logical permeationism; quantum information technology; formal methods
Replacing the Nature/Culture Divide in the Anthropocene: Divergent Perspectives
edited by Arianne Conty
submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 282 | Submission Open
Keywords: anthropocene; nature/culture divide; climate crisis; more-than-human agency; flat ontology; Bruno Latour; Dipesh Chakrabarty; Andreas Malm  
Walking, Wandering, and Journeying: Approaches from Chinese and Greek Thought submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 329 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese philosophy; Greek philosophy; comparative philosophy; way or path (Dao; odos); walking; wandering; journey; self-cultivation
Wittgenstein’s 'On Certainty'—Between Interpretative Questions and Theoretical Developments
edited by Luigi Perissinotto
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open
Keywords: Wittgenstein; certainty; doubt; knowledge; scepticism; epistemology; Moore; hinge epistemology  
Semio-Logics: From Atoms to Anatomy
edited by
submission deadline 10 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open
Keywords: symbolic logics; scientific taxonomies; medicine; emergence; semiotics; computational theory; structuralism; molecular biology
Reimagining More-than-Human Charisma: Aesthetics, Affects, and Values
edited by John Charles Ryan
submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 329 | Submission Open
Keywords: aesthetics; affect theory; anthropomorphism; charisma; conservation; corporeality; ecology; environmental philosophy; plant humanities; non-human ambassadors
Ethics of Care and Ordinary Language Philosophy: Intersections in Moral and Linguistic Practices
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open
Keywords: ordinary language; forms of life; ethics of care; moral practice
Existential Aesthetics - Aesthetics of Existence
edited by Alessandro Giovanni Bertinetto, and Alberto Martinengo
submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 318 | Submission Open
Keywords: aesthetics; existence; aesthetic experience; aesthetics of existence; aesthetic self; habits; embodiment; phenomenology; pragmatism; Heidegger; Jaspers; Dewey; Foucault; everyday aesthetics; normativity; taste; style; cognitive aesthetics; social aesthetics; enactivism; AI and digital aesthetics; philosophy as way of life
Philosophy in the Quantum Technologies Era: Rethinking Knowledge, Reality, and Society Beyond Quantum Theory
edited by Jordi Vallverdú and
submission deadline 10 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum epistemology; quantum ontologies; quantum ethics; quantum paradoxes; foundations of quantum computing; philosophy of quantum information; interpretation of quantum mechanics; quantum algorithms; quantum simulation; quantum complexity; quantum logic; quantum measurement problem; entanglement and nonlocality; computational complexity; scientific modeling and simulation; explanation in quantum science; realism and anti-realism in quantum theory; emerging quantum technologies; conceptual analysis of quantum computation
Interpreting the New Heidegger
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4179 | Submission Open
Keywords: Heidegger; phenomenology; truth; space; time; being; art; Heidegger’ s Black Notebooks
Public Policy and Ethics
edited by Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 334 | Submission Open
Keywords: pluralism; reasonable disagreement; public reason; conciliationism; political epistemology; justification
Events and Processes: Rethinking Time, Creativity, and Reality in Continental and Process Philosophy
edited by Keith Robinson
submission deadline 1 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open
Keywords: process; event; time; space; causality; creativity; movement; matter; reality; continental philosophy
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence submission deadline 15 Feb 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2539 | 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
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