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Ethical Concerns in Early Confucianism
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 534 | Submission Open
Keywords: early Confucianism; ethical concerns; classical text; representative; ethical argument; ethical debate
Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films
edited by Susana Viegas and Vasco Baptista Marques
submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 520 | Submission Open
Keywords: film philosophy; testament films; philosophy of death; mortality; memory
Clinical Ethics and Philosophy
edited by Mario Picozzi and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 12746 | Submission Open
Keywords: clinical ethics; methods in clinical ethics; philosophical foundations of clinical ethics; ethics committee; clinical ethics consultations; ethics expertise
Adam Smith's Philosophy and Modern Moral Economics
edited by Mark Rathbone
submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 340 | Submission Open
Keywords: Adam Smith; moral economics; sympathy; self-interest; justice; happiness; ethics
Philosophy of Sport and Physical Culture
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submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2620 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy of sport; physical activity; embodiment; games; physical culture; aesthetics; ethics; dance; martial arts
New Paths in the Philosophy of Imitating and Learning from Nature
edited by Henry Dicks and Marco Tamborini
submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 577 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomimetics; bioinspiration; biomimicry; environmental ethics; philosophy of science; philosophy of technology; nature-inspired design; learning from nature; sustainability; AI and robotics
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 591 | 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
Kyoto School: Synthesis of Eastern Intellectual Tradition and Western Philosophy
edited by Viren Murthy
submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 516 | Submission Open
Keywords: Kyoto school of philosophy; Asian philosophy; comparative philosophy; modernity
Mereology in Metaphysics, Science and Logic
edited by Joshua Spencer
submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open
Keywords: mereology; parts and composition; simples; persistence and spacetime; modality; indeterminacy; foundations of mathematics; neo-Aristotelianism or hylomorphism; meta-metaphysics; quantifier variance
Foundations in Flux: Process Metaphysics and Its Scientific Applications
edited by Maximilian Zachrau and Cord Friebe
submission deadline 19 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 227 | Submission Open
Keywords: process philosophy; dynamicity; scientific metaphysics; biological organization; fundamentality; philosophy of time
The Logical Linguistic Legacy of Montague Grammar
edited by Glyn Morrill
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 166 | 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
Aristotelian Ethics
edited by Shane D. Drefcinski
submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 996 | 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)
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 669 | Submission Open
Keywords: the epistemological status of intelligence; intelligence and creativity; intelligence and consciousness
Critical Phenomenologies of Illness and Normality
edited by Gail Weiss and Lisa Käll
submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 569 | Submission Open
Keywords: critical phenomenology; embodiment; illness; normality; disability; pathologization; vulnerability
Deleuze: Teacher of Spinoza’s Philosophy
edited by Florian Vermeiren
submission deadline 1 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 1055 | Submission Open
Keywords: Deleuze; Spinoza; history of Spinozism; univocity; ethics; intensive magnitude
The Dawn of Aspects: Wittgenstein and the Life of Meaning
edited by , Gordon Bearn and
submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 54 | 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
Philosophical Contexts for Reading Poetry
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submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophical contexts; poetic language; metaphor and meaning; esthetics and ethics; phenomenology of art; poetic knowledge
Interpreting the New Heidegger
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submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open
Keywords: Heidegger; phenomenology; truth; space; time; being; art; Heidegger’ s Black Notebooks
Debating Temporal Ontology: The Existence of Yesterday and Tomorrow
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open
Keywords: temporal ontology; time; temporal passage; B-theory; A-theory; block universe; eternalism; presentism; growing block; truthmaking
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