Submissions

Author Guidelines

Norms

1. This Journal accepts unpublished academic works in: Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French and Italian. They could be Papers, Reviews, Translations and Debates.
2. The journal does not charge any fee for publishing articles. The editorial board values the policy of free access to information, thus, does not charge any fee for the submission, review, publication, distribution or download of articles. Author will receive two copies of the volume.
3. Papers should be submitted only via this site  (it’s necessary to make the registration as “author” and obtain a password). Our email: revista.philosophos@gmail.com.
4. The publishing of translations is constrained by copyrights. The usage of any third party translation has to be authorized by the author, unless it is in the public domain.
5. The works should have a clear argumentative structure, be articulated and present a relevant and original analysis of the subject.
6. The editorial board has the right to accept, refuse or send back to the author the original with suggestions of changes and/or improvements.
7. The Papers should not have more than 8.000 words; reviews and debates should not exceed 3.500 words. The Journal editorial board will judge special cases.
8. According to the editorial line of the journal the authors should be Doctors in philosophy or doctors, even from other areas, that have engaged research in philosophy. The rules of co-authorship follow broadly the same principles of the rules applied to authors, i.e. submissions will be accepted with co-authors who are Doctors or doctoral students in philosophy, with a limitation of a maximum of two (2) coauthors per paper. The editorial board of the journal will judge special cases.
9. The translations must be of articles or book chapters duly authorized by the holders of the copyright.
10. Manuscripts should be accompanied by:
    1. Abstract with a minimum of 100 a maximum of 200 words.
    2. Keywords (maximum of four).
    3. Must not contain any kind of identification. The academic position, address and e-mail of the author shall be inserted in paper submission act and will be stored in the site database.
    4. In the case of submission via email, the data should come in the mail, but not in the paper.
11. The publication of translations is subject to legal provisions relating to copyright, and the proponent of translation shall provide the authorization for the publication of texts that are not in the public domain.
12. The cotes:
    1. In the citations, the author's surname inside the parentheses must be uppercase with capitalized and outside of parentheses in lower case with initial caps. E.g.: Quine (2001), (QUINE 2001).
    2. Different titles by the same author published in the same year will be identified by a letter after the date. Ex.: (QUINE 2001a), (QUINE 2001b).
    3. The symbol "/" serves to separate pages not continuous and the symbol "-" continuous pages. Ex.: (QUINE 2001a, p. 21/32), (QUINE 2001b, 21-32).
13. The bibliography must be presented at the end of the text, sorted alphabetically in ascending order and according to the following pattern.
    1. In the case of books: surname (in upper case), name of the author; title of the book in italics, place, Publisher, year of publication, Edition. E.g.: QUINE, W. V. O. Pursuit of truth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
    2. In the case of collection: family name (in upper case), name of the author; title of the text, In: last name (in upper case), the organizer's name (ed.), book title in italics, place, Publisher, Edition, year of publication, home-page end. E.g.: DAVIDSON, Donald. On the very idea of a conceptual scheme. In: ______. Inquiries into truth and interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984, p. 183-98. (paper first published in 1974)
    3. In the case of article: last name (in upper case), author name, paper title, journal title in italics, place, number of journal: home-page end, month (if you have one), year of publication. E.g.: ______. In praise of observational sentences. The Journal of Philosophy, v. XC, n. 3, p. 107-116, march, 1993.
    4. In the case of academic thesis: family name (in upper case), name of the author; title of the thesis in italics. Year of publication. Number of pages. Dissertation (master degree) or thesis (PhD), institution, place and date. E.g.: VELLOSO, Araceli. The "moderate" holism of W. V. O. Quine: a new verificationism "without the dogmas”. 2004. 228p. Thesis (PhD in philosophy) – Federal University do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2004.