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Letters must be in direct response to a BJPS article, concern factual errors, overlooked literature, objections, counterexamples, or any other matter of philosophical interest
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We are delighted to announce the addition of three new associate editors: Pierrick Bourrat (Macquarie University), Nick Huggett (UIC), and Cédric Paternotte (Sorbonne Université).
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We are delighted to announce the addition of three new Associate Editors: Cameron Buckner (University of Houston), Elizabeth Irvine (Cardiff University), and Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds).
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The Editors of the BJPS are delighted to announce that Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M) has been chosen as Referee of the Year 2019, for his willingness to act as a referee, for the timeliness of his reports, and for the very high quality of those reports.
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The Editors are delighted to announce another new member of the BJPS team. H. Orri Stefánsson (Stockholm University) joins the BJPS as Associate Editor.
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The editors of the BJPS are delighted to announce that Adrian Currie (Exeter) has been chosen as Referee of the Year 2018, for his willingness to act as a referee, for his timeliness in completing reports, and for the very high quality of those reports.
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The BSPS invites expressions of interest regarding the appointment of a new Co-Editor-in-Chief for the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, to join current Co-Editor-in-Chief Wendy Parker and Assistant Editor Elizabeth Hannon.
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The Editors of the BJPS are delighted to announce the publication of a new virtual issue. Following on from the success of previous issues on Kuhn and the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, BJPS Associate Editor Peter Lewis has drawn together papers from the journal that have critically explored Bell’s theorem and its philosophical upshot. The full issue can be found here, but we’ve reproduced Peter’s introduction below. Enjoy!
We are delighted to be able to announce that Jonah N. Schupbach has been awarded the 2018 BJPS Popper Prize for his article ‘Robustness Analysis as Explanatory Reasoning‘.
The BJPS is pleased to note that two of the papers it published last year have been included in The Philosopher’s Annual top ten papers of 2017. These papers have been made free to access, with links below.
If you didn’t make it to this year’s BSPS annual conference in Oxford, we’ve teamed up with Philosophy Streaming to record the Presidential Address and the plenary discussions for your listening pleasure!
As any journal editor will tell you (at length, possibly via the medium of rant), the trickiest part of the job is not the papers, not the authors, and not even the typesetters. It’s the referees. It is no mean feat to secure referees who are, first, reliable in their academic judgement, second, responsive to emails, and third, willing to return reports when they say they will. But the frustrations of editors aside, the far more pressing concern is for the career prospects of early-career researchers. Jobs and funding can depend on timely decisions. Indeed, whether an early-career researcher gets to become a mid- or late-career researcher can depend on whether a decision is made in a reasonable amount of time.
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The Editors of the BJPS and the BSPS committee are delighted to announce that Grant Ramsey and Andreas de Block are the 2017 winners of the BJPS Popper Prize for their article ‘Is Cultural Fitness Hopelessly Confused?’.
Endowed by the Latsis Foundation, the Lakatos Award is given to an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science. Winners are presented with a medal and given the chance to deliver a lecture based on the winning work. To celebrate the 2015 and the 2016 award winners—Thomas Pradeu and Brian Epstein, respectively—they each delivered a lecture at the LSE last week. Introduced by Hasok Chang, Pradeu’s lecture is entitled ‘Why Philosophy in Science? Re-Visiting Immunology and Biological Individuality’ and Epstein’s is ‘Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences’.
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Another year, another impact factor. Thomson Reuters, who compile the figures, have released their 2017 report and the BJPS continues to perform very well (a brief explanation of the IF can be found here). We’ve jumped from last year’s 1.738 to a not-to-be-sniffed-at 1.985.
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The decision of the Co-Chief-Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is that the Sir Karl Popper Prize for 2016 should be awarded jointly to Elizabeth Irvine for her paper ‘Model-Based Theorizing in Cognitive Neuroscience’ (Br J Philos Sci, 2016, 67, pp. 143–68) and Eran Tal for his paper ‘Making Time: A Study in the Epistemology of Measurement’ (Br J Philos Sci, 2016, 67, pp. 297–335).
A while back, we decided to implement a ‘soft’ word limit of 10,000 words and we asked authors who wanted to exceed this limit to write to us with a justification. More than a year later, we’ve found that not one paper submitted that exceeded 10,000 words couldn’t have been pruned and nonetheless retained all that mattered (and, indeed, was and did). So to make things more straightforward for all concerned, the Editors have decided to make the 10,000-word deadline firm. Papers exceeding this length will automatically be returned to authors.
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The Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science recently took the decision to publish book reviews online-only in order to save as much space as possible for original articles in print editions. Following from this, we are happy to announce the launch of the BJPS Review of Books.
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BJPS Associate Editors don’t just act as midwives to great philosophy, they produce it too! Hot on the heels of ex-Associate Editor Marc Lange, Lara Buchak is featured in this year’s Philosopher’s Annual for her joint paper ‘Groupthink’, written with Jeffrey Sanford Russell and John Hawthorn, and published in Philosophical Studies.
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Editing is more often than not a thankless job (look away now, potential Co-Editor-in-Chiefs). However, this is one of those rare happy moments when it all comes good. Yesterday, Thomson Reuters released the Journal Citation Report for 2015 and the BJPS continues its lead among philosophy of science journals, with an impact factor of 1.738.
We are looking for a new Co-Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Michela Massimi is stepping down from her role with the Journal after two terms at the helm to work on, among other things, her ERC-funded project Perspectival Realism: Science, Knowledge, and Truth from a Human Vantage Point. We are bereft at her parting, and will have more to say […]
Another year, another plethora of referees to thank! The BJPS continues to go from strength to strength, and while our authors can bask in the limelight, as editors we get to see behind the scenes, to all the hard work done by the referees in taking strong drafts and turning them into shiny, publishable gems. As the list of names below makes clear, the number of people it takes to make a journal work is not small, and that’s before we include all the editors and the team at OUP. What’s more, this list isn’t nearly complete—not everyone consented to be named—and there are more than a few (heroic!) people listed who have written a number of reports for us throughout the year. We are incredibly grateful for all of he considered, thoughtful reports we received throughout the year from these referees—they certainly make our job as editors easier!
Due to the very welcome fact of the BJPS’s ever increasing popularity, we’ve been forced to make some tough decisions. All print journals work with tight page budgets, which in our case has been fixed by joint agreement between the BSPS and our publishers, OUP. The upshot of this is that it’s often impossible to publish everything we would like to. Competition for space has always been fierce in the BJPS and, as the last few years have seen a 50% increase in submissions to the Journal, things have become that much tougher.
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We are very pleased to announce that the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science has adopted a triple-masked system for peer review, whereby neither the referees nor the editors know the identity of the author(s), and vice versa.
I am honored to have been an Associate Editor of BJPS. I thought of my role not so much as a gatekeeper, but more as a teacher. My aim was to do whatever I could to help authors make their papers as strong as they could be. I often found this to be very gratifying […]
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There have been some changes in our editorial make up over the last couple of months. First, the sad news. Michael Wheeler and Marc Lange have both stepped down from their roles as Associate Editors for various reasons, including the pressure of other responsibilities. Both have been with this editorial team from the word go and have put a lot of time and energy into supporting the journal. We’d like to thank them both for all their support, and for their careful and thorough reports that helped not just us but also many authors.On a happier note, we have two new additions to the team: Alyssa Ney and Lara Buchak! We are delighted to have both on board.
The lone philosopher, working in a dingy attic by the scrap end of a guttering candle might have some cultural purchase, and certainly the working conditions might sometimes be a little Dickensian, but what’s apparent from working behind the curtains at the BJPS is that good philosophy is not the result of the heroic efforts of single individuals. We are lucky enough here to receive submissions from the best and brightest in our field, but the distance between that first submission and the finished product should not be underestimated. That gap is bridged by the time, hard work, and thoughtfulness of our referees, in conversation with our authors. For myself, I have learnt more about how to do philosophy in reading the back-and-forth between author and referee than I could ever have imagined, and it has been a huge privilege to be able to eavesdrop on these conversations.
The decision of the Co-Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is that the Sir Karl Popper Prize for 2014 should be awarded to Rachael L. Brown for her paper ‘What Evolvability Really Is’ (Br J Philos Sci [2014], 65, pp. 549-72).
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If our new virtual issue on the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science wasn’t enough to keep you busy, here are more new things for your reading pleasure.
Psychology emerged within the last two centuries from a long tradition of philosophical speculation about the mind, and it has to a large degree remained entangled with that tradition. Psychological theorizing overlaps with philosophical discourse at many points, and has also produced a host of concepts, methods, and models that shed new light on some of philosophy’s old problems. This combination has made it one of the most fertile sources of material for philosophers of science. The emergence of cognitive science as an organizing conception for the interfield study of the mind is a testament to the reciprocal influence of philosophy on scientific theorizing. As increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the analysis of the practices of particular sciences, the philosophy of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science have flourished.
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BJPS Co-Chief Editor Michela Massimi and Professor of Astronomy Ofer Lahav have written a piece for Astronomy & Geophysics on the Standard Model. Just how many anomalies are necessary for a paradigm shift?
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The philosophy of science is entering an exciting era. Its horizons are wider than ever, the topics and areas it covers are even more stimulating, and the interactions with the sciences are both more productive and provocative. As Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, we have front row seats on all this activity, allowing us to witness an unprecedented period of thrilling research being carried out at the frontiers of biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, as well as the physical and human sciences. The sheer variety and stimulating nature of the topics that we have the pleasure to publish is a testament to the vibrancy of the field.
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BJPS Popper Prize 2025
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWinner of the 2025 BJPS Popper Prize announced
Referee of the Year 2025
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe Editors are delighted to announce the BJPS Referee of the Year for 2025
BJPS Stats 2024
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, BJPS Stats /by The BJPSAcceptance rates, time to decisions, and more
BJPS Popper Prize 2024
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWinner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize announced
Referee of the Year 2024
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe Editors are delighted to announce the BJPS Referee of the Year for 2024
New Associate Editors Join the BJPS Team
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSNew recruits for the BJPS editorial team
New BJPS Co-Editor-in-Chief Appointed
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe British Society for the Philosophy of Science has appointed a replacement for outgoing Co-Editor-in-Chief, Wendy Parker
‘Letters to the Editors’ Now Accepted
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSLetters must be in direct response to a BJPS article, concern factual errors, overlooked literature, objections, counterexamples, or any other matter of philosophical interest
Job: Co-Editor-in-Chief
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSNew BJPS Co-Editor-in-Chief sought
BJPS Stats 2023
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, BJPS Stats /by The BJPSAcceptance rates, time to decisions, and more
Changes to the BJPS Editorial Team
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSAll change at BJPS Towers
BJPS Popper Prize 2023
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWinner of the 2023 BJPS Popper Prize announced
Referee of the Year 2023
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe Editors are delighted to announce the BJPS Referee of the Year for 2023
BJPS Stats 2022: Part III
/in AH Main, AuxHyp News, BJPS Stats /by The BJPSPart III: Journal Metrics
BJPS Stats 2022: Part II
/in AH Main, AuxHyp News, BJPS Stats /by The BJPSPart II: BJPS Authors
BJPS Stats 2022: Part I
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, BJPS Stats /by The BJPSPart I: BJPS Papers
New Additions to the BJPS Editorial Team
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWe are delighted to announce the arrival of six new Associate Editors to the BJPS team
BJPS Popper Prize 2022
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWinner of the 2022 BJPS Popper Prize announced
Referee of the Year 2022
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe Editors are delighted to announce the BJPS Referee of the Year for 2022
BJPS Stats 2021: Part I
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, BJPS Stats /by The BJPSPart I: Journal Metrics
Referee of the Year 2021
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe Editors are delighted to announce the BJPS Referee of the Year for 2021
BJPS Popper Prize 2021
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWinner of the BJPS Popper Prize announced
New Associate Editors for the BJPS
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWe are delighted to announce the addition of three new associate editors: Pierrick Bourrat (Macquarie University), Nick Huggett (UIC), and Cédric Paternotte (Sorbonne Université).
New: BJPS Short Reads
/in AuxHyp News, News /by The BJPSBJPS articles, but shorter
BJPS Stats 2020
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, BJPS Stats /by The BJPSNumber of submissions, acceptance rates, and more in 2020
Instructions for BJPS Referees
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, How To, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSWe’ve recently updated our guidelines for referees and we’ve posted them on our website in case they’re useful for authors too
Three new Associate Editors join the BJPS
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWe are delighted to announce the addition of three new Associate Editors: Cameron Buckner (University of Houston), Elizabeth Irvine (Cardiff University), and Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds).
Popper Prize 2020 Honourable Mentions
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSArticles shortlisted for the 2020 BJPS Popper Prize
The BJPS Popper Prize 2020
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSReferee of the Year 2020
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe challenges of open access publishing in philosophy
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSReferees of 2020
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSHow to Read Rejection: Advice for the Puzzled or Peeved | Rob Rupert
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, How To /by The BJPSSteven French steps down as Co-Editor-in-Chief
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSInfectious Diseases and the Evolution of Virulence | Elliott Sober
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSRobert Rupert Appointed New BJPS Co-Editor-in-Chief
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSFast Science and Philosophy of Science | Jacob Stegenga
/1 Comment/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSCOVID-19 Announcement
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSJonathan Birch joins the BJPS as Associate Editor
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSReferee of the Year 2019
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, News /by The BJPSThe Editors of the BJPS are delighted to announce that Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M) has been chosen as Referee of the Year 2019, for his willingness to act as a referee, for the timeliness of his reports, and for the very high quality of those reports.
The BJPS Popper Prize 2019
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, News /by The BJPSShane Glackin joins the BJPS as Associate Editor
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSH. Orri Stefánsson joins as the BJPS as Associate Editor
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe Editors are delighted to announce another new member of the BJPS team. H. Orri Stefánsson (Stockholm University) joins the BJPS as Associate Editor.
Mary Leng joins as the BJPS as Associate Editor
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe Editors are delighted to announce that Mary Leng (York) is joining the BJPS as Associate Editor.
BJPS Stats for 2018 Part 2
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSBJPS Stats for 2018, Part 1
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSInformation about the number of submissions, acceptance rates, and decision times for 2018. Part 2 will cover demographic information.
Referee of the Year 2018
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe editors of the BJPS are delighted to announce that Adrian Currie (Exeter) has been chosen as Referee of the Year 2018, for his willingness to act as a referee, for his timeliness in completing reports, and for the very high quality of those reports.
Join the BJPS Editorial Team
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSThe BSPS invites expressions of interest regarding the appointment of a new Co-Editor-in-Chief for the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, to join current Co-Editor-in-Chief Wendy Parker and Assistant Editor Elizabeth Hannon.
New Virtual Issue: Bell’s Theorem 55 Years On
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Virtual Issue /by The BJPSThe Editors of the BJPS are delighted to announce the publication of a new virtual issue. Following on from the success of previous issues on Kuhn and the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, BJPS Associate Editor Peter Lewis has drawn together papers from the journal that have critically explored Bell’s theorem and its philosophical upshot. The full issue can be found here, but we’ve reproduced Peter’s introduction below. Enjoy!
BJPS Popper Prize 2018
/in AH Main, AuxHyp, AuxHyp News /by The BJPSWe are delighted to be able to announce that Jonah N. Schupbach has been awarded the 2018 BJPS Popper Prize for his article ‘Robustness Analysis as Explanatory Reasoning‘.
BJPS Papers in The Philosopher’s Annual 2017
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science /by The BJPSThe BJPS is pleased to note that two of the papers it published last year have been included in The Philosopher’s Annual top ten papers of 2017. These papers have been made free to access, with links below.
Podcasts: BSPS Annual Conference
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Metaphysics, Philosophy of physics, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of social science, Podcasts /by The BJPSIf you didn’t make it to this year’s BSPS annual conference in Oxford, we’ve teamed up with Philosophy Streaming to record the Presidential Address and the plenary discussions for your listening pleasure!
[Updated] Peer Review or Perish: The Problem of Free Riders in Philosophy | Beth Hannon
/4 Comments/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Journal mechanics, Publishing /by The BJPSAs any journal editor will tell you (at length, possibly via the medium of rant), the trickiest part of the job is not the papers, not the authors, and not even the typesetters. It’s the referees. It is no mean feat to secure referees who are, first, reliable in their academic judgement, second, responsive to emails, and third, willing to return reports when they say they will. But the frustrations of editors aside, the far more pressing concern is for the career prospects of early-career researchers. Jobs and funding can depend on timely decisions. Indeed, whether an early-career researcher gets to become a mid- or late-career researcher can depend on whether a decision is made in a reasonable amount of time.
BJPS Popper Prize 2017
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Journal mechanics, Philosophy of biology /by The BJPSThe Editors of the BJPS and the BSPS committee are delighted to announce that Grant Ramsey and Andreas de Block are the 2017 winners of the BJPS Popper Prize for their article ‘Is Cultural Fitness Hopelessly Confused?’.
Lakatos Award Lectures
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Books, General philosophy of science, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of social science /by The BJPSEndowed by the Latsis Foundation, the Lakatos Award is given to an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science. Winners are presented with a medal and given the chance to deliver a lecture based on the winning work. To celebrate the 2015 and the 2016 award winners—Thomas Pradeu and Brian Epstein, respectively—they each delivered a lecture at the LSE last week. Introduced by Hasok Chang, Pradeu’s lecture is entitled ‘Why Philosophy in Science? Re-Visiting Immunology and Biological Individuality’ and Epstein’s is ‘Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences’.
Christian Wüthrich’s ‘The Temporal and Atemporal Emergence of (Space-)Time’
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Philosophy of physics /by The BJPSChristian Wüthrich delivered one of the plenary talks at this summer’s BSPS conference in Edinburgh and lo! It was recorded (future is now!).
IF and Only IF
/1 Comment/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSAnother year, another impact factor. Thomson Reuters, who compile the figures, have released their 2017 report and the BJPS continues to perform very well (a brief explanation of the IF can be found here). We’ve jumped from last year’s 1.738 to a not-to-be-sniffed-at 1.985.
Popper Prize 2016
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSThe decision of the Co-Chief-Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is that the Sir Karl Popper Prize for 2016 should be awarded jointly to Elizabeth Irvine for her paper ‘Model-Based Theorizing in Cognitive Neuroscience’ (Br J Philos Sci, 2016, 67, pp. 143–68) and Eran Tal for his paper ‘Making Time: A Study in the Epistemology of Measurement’ (Br J Philos Sci, 2016, 67, pp. 297–335).
Short Shrift: Word Limit for the BJPS
/1 Comment/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSA while back, we decided to implement a ‘soft’ word limit of 10,000 words and we asked authors who wanted to exceed this limit to write to us with a justification. More than a year later, we’ve found that not one paper submitted that exceeded 10,000 words couldn’t have been pruned and nonetheless retained all that mattered (and, indeed, was and did). So to make things more straightforward for all concerned, the Editors have decided to make the 10,000-word deadline firm. Papers exceeding this length will automatically be returned to authors.
BJPS Review of Books: It lives!
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Books, Journal mechanics, Publishing /by The BJPSThe Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science recently took the decision to publish book reviews online-only in order to save as much space as possible for original articles in print editions. Following from this, we are happy to announce the launch of the BJPS Review of Books.
Judging a Journal by Its Cover
/1 Comment/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSThe BJPS is getting a shiny new look thanks to the good people at Studio Carreras.
Associate Editor Lara Buchak Featured in this Year’s Philosopher’s Annual
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Bayesianism, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSBJPS Associate Editors don’t just act as midwives to great philosophy, they produce it too! Hot on the heels of ex-Associate Editor Marc Lange, Lara Buchak is featured in this year’s Philosopher’s Annual for her joint paper ‘Groupthink’, written with Jeffrey Sanford Russell and John Hawthorn, and published in Philosophical Studies.
IF Success, Then Celebrate!
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Journal mechanics, Publishing /by The BJPSEditing is more often than not a thankless job (look away now, potential Co-Editor-in-Chiefs). However, this is one of those rare happy moments when it all comes good. Yesterday, Thomson Reuters released the Journal Citation Report for 2015 and the BJPS continues its lead among philosophy of science journals, with an impact factor of 1.738.
Join the BJPS Editorial Team!
/2 Comments/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Journal mechanics, Publishing /by The BJPSWe are looking for a new Co-Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Michela Massimi is stepping down from her role with the Journal after two terms at the helm to work on, among other things, her ERC-funded project Perspectival Realism: Science, Knowledge, and Truth from a Human Vantage Point. We are bereft at her parting, and will have more to say […]
Oi! Ref!
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSAnother year, another plethora of referees to thank! The BJPS continues to go from strength to strength, and while our authors can bask in the limelight, as editors we get to see behind the scenes, to all the hard work done by the referees in taking strong drafts and turning them into shiny, publishable gems. As the list of names below makes clear, the number of people it takes to make a journal work is not small, and that’s before we include all the editors and the team at OUP. What’s more, this list isn’t nearly complete—not everyone consented to be named—and there are more than a few (heroic!) people listed who have written a number of reports for us throughout the year. We are incredibly grateful for all of he considered, thoughtful reports we received throughout the year from these referees—they certainly make our job as editors easier!
Popper Prize 2015
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Journal mechanics, Philosophy of biology /by The BJPSThe Editors of the BJPS are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2015 Popper Prize is Matthew Slater for his BJPS paper, ‘Natural Kindness’.
It’s Hard Being Popular…
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Journal mechanics, Publishing /by The BJPSDue to the very welcome fact of the BJPS’s ever increasing popularity, we’ve been forced to make some tough decisions. All print journals work with tight page budgets, which in our case has been fixed by joint agreement between the BSPS and our publishers, OUP. The upshot of this is that it’s often impossible to publish everything we would like to. Competition for space has always been fierce in the BJPS and, as the last few years have seen a 50% increase in submissions to the Journal, things have become that much tougher.
Triple-Masked Peer Review Is GO!
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Journal mechanics, Publishing /by The BJPSWe are very pleased to announce that the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science has adopted a triple-masked system for peer review, whereby neither the referees nor the editors know the identity of the author(s), and vice versa.
Envoi | Marc Lange
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSI am honored to have been an Associate Editor of BJPS. I thought of my role not so much as a gatekeeper, but more as a teacher. My aim was to do whatever I could to help authors make their papers as strong as they could be. I often found this to be very gratifying […]
All Is Change
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Journal mechanics /by The BJPSThere have been some changes in our editorial make up over the last couple of months. First, the sad news. Michael Wheeler and Marc Lange have both stepped down from their roles as Associate Editors for various reasons, including the pressure of other responsibilities. Both have been with this editorial team from the word go and have put a lot of time and energy into supporting the journal. We’d like to thank them both for all their support, and for their careful and thorough reports that helped not just us but also many authors.On a happier note, we have two new additions to the team: Alyssa Ney and Lara Buchak! We are delighted to have both on board.
Acknowledgements
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Philosophy of science /by The BJPSThe lone philosopher, working in a dingy attic by the scrap end of a guttering candle might have some cultural purchase, and certainly the working conditions might sometimes be a little Dickensian, but what’s apparent from working behind the curtains at the BJPS is that good philosophy is not the result of the heroic efforts of single individuals. We are lucky enough here to receive submissions from the best and brightest in our field, but the distance between that first submission and the finished product should not be underestimated. That gap is bridged by the time, hard work, and thoughtfulness of our referees, in conversation with our authors. For myself, I have learnt more about how to do philosophy in reading the back-and-forth between author and referee than I could ever have imagined, and it has been a huge privilege to be able to eavesdrop on these conversations.
The Sir Karl Popper Prize for 2014
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of science /by The BJPSThe decision of the Co-Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is that the Sir Karl Popper Prize for 2014 should be awarded to Rachael L. Brown for her paper ‘What Evolvability Really Is’ (Br J Philos Sci [2014], 65, pp. 549-72).
Journal Rankings | DEVITT’S LGSCD-INDEX & DEVITT’S GSCD-INDEX
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, News /by The BJPSKate Devitt has done some interesting work to improve upon Google Scholar’s journal rankings…
Weekend Reading
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Books, General philosophy of science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of physics /by The BJPSIf our new virtual issue on the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science wasn’t enough to keep you busy, here are more new things for your reading pleasure.
Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science | Daniel Weiskopf
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of cognitive science, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of psychology /by The BJPSPsychology emerged within the last two centuries from a long tradition of philosophical speculation about the mind, and it has to a large degree remained entangled with that tradition. Psychological theorizing overlaps with philosophical discourse at many points, and has also produced a host of concepts, methods, and models that shed new light on some of philosophy’s old problems. This combination has made it one of the most fertile sources of material for philosophers of science. The emergence of cognitive science as an organizing conception for the interfield study of the mind is a testament to the reciprocal influence of philosophy on scientific theorizing. As increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the analysis of the practices of particular sciences, the philosophy of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science have flourished.
Dark Matter: The New Neptune or Vulcan?
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science, History of Science, Philosophy of physics /by The BJPSBJPS Co-Chief Editor Michela Massimi and Professor of Astronomy Ofer Lahav have written a piece for Astronomy & Geophysics on the Standard Model. Just how many anomalies are necessary for a paradigm shift?
New on Advance Access
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, Bayesianism, Books, General philosophy of science, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of physics /by The BJPSSome new additions to our advance access page for your perusal
Peter Vickers on Science and Inconsistency
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, General philosophy of science /by The BJPSOver on OUP’s blog, Peter Vickers (Durham) argues that inconsistency and science go hand in hand.
The brand new blog of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
/in AuxHyp, AuxHyp News, News /by The BJPSThe philosophy of science is entering an exciting era. Its horizons are wider than ever, the topics and areas it covers are even more stimulating, and the interactions with the sciences are both more productive and provocative. As Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, we have front row seats on all this activity, allowing us to witness an unprecedented period of thrilling research being carried out at the frontiers of biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, as well as the physical and human sciences. The sheer variety and stimulating nature of the topics that we have the pleasure to publish is a testament to the vibrancy of the field.