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Affectivity and Technology: Philosophical Explorations

In connecting 4E cognition with the topic of affectivity and emotions, the framework of “situated affectivity” has emerged, pointing out the important role of the interaction between the emoter and the envir...
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Arguing with Engineered Concepts

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Arguing with engineered concepts. The topical issue aims at presenting views on how and to what extent the development of con...
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Argumentation and Politics

This special issue of Topoi includes nine selected contributions to the conference “Argumentation and Politics”, held at the University of Granada in 2022. This publication aims to foster the interdisciplina...
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Digital Technologies and Human Decision-Making

Technology increasingly shapes the reality we live in as well as the boundaries of moral agency, so generating the question of what the properly “human” side of decision-making is. At the same time, technolo...
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Direct Realism: Historical and Systematic Perspectives

Direct realism in epistemology and the philosophy of mind is the view that perception is not mediated by representational means such as concepts or ideas but that things are perceived directly. More recently...
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Emotions Towards Future Generations

Since the second half of the 20th century, intergenerational justice has become a central theme of moral philosophical reflection. The questions raised by issues such as the anthropogenic causes of climate c...
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Fairness

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Fairness. The special issue aims to explore the varied harms caused or aggravated by situated and extended cognitive and affe...
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01 October 2024

Implicit Bias: What are we Missing?

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Implicit Bias: What are we Missing? The special issue aims to explore the nature and explanation of implicit bias. Special is...
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01 August 2024

Loneliness

Loneliness is often seen as one of the great public mental health crises of our time. Much research is being devoted to finding possible remedies. Yet it is not at all clear whether we have as yet a sufficie...
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Mathematical Practice and Social Ontology

The relationship between mathematics and social ontology is often guided by the question of the possibility of applying mathematics to social sciences, especially economics. As interesting as these questions...
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Meaning and Understanding via Proofs

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Meaning and Understanding via Proofs. The topical issue aims at providing an overview on current logical and epistemological ...
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30 July 2024

Metalinguistic disagreement and semantic externalism

Various forms of metalinguistic disagreement and related projects and phenomena such as “metalinguistic negotiation” (Plunkett & Sundell 2013), “conceptual ethics” (Burgess & Plunkett 2013), “conceptual engi...
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Moral Exemplarism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

The past two decades have witnessed a lively debate surrounding “moral exemplarism,” the view that key moral concepts like duty, goodness, and virtue should be understood by reference to actual or fictional ...
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Naturalism – Challenges and New Perspectives

The paradigm of so-called scientific naturalism has received a growing amount of critical attention from within and outside of analytic philosophy in the last few decades. The main thrust of a host of these ...
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New Perspectives on Joint Attention

Joint attention has generated a lot of discussion within a range of areas, most notably developmental psychology and philosophy (Eilan et al 2005; Seemann 2011; Metcalfe and Terrace 2014; Seemann 2021). It i...
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Norms of Public Argument: A Speech Act Perspective

The aim of this topical collection and the forthcoming special issue is to use the framework of speech act theory to understand the broadly construed normativity of disputes (“argument” in one sense) and rea...
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Philosophical Discussions with Pragma-Dialectics

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi on the Special Issue “Philosophical Discussions with Pragma-Dialectics”. Special issue article publications often bring higher citation...
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Political Normativity and Ethics

The relationship between politics and morality has puzzled thinkers from Socrates to Machiavelli, Hobbes, or Hannah Arendt, and has been a matter of practical concern for public servants and people in genera...
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Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration. This special issue aims to explore the socio-culturally shaped conditions of...
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31 March 2025

Rule-Following: Between Nature and Culture

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Rule-following: between nature and culture. The topical issue aims at exploring topics concerning rule-following and normativ...
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30 July 2024

Scaffolding Bad: Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi on Scaffolding Bad: Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm. The special issue aims to explore the varied harms caused or aggravated by si...
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31 May 2024

Slurring Terms Across Languages

The study of slurs has captivated philosophers and linguists, fostering a vibrant discourse in the realm of semantics and pragmatics. While the examination of slurs in Indo-European languages, particularly E...
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Social Epistemology of Argumentation

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Social Epistemology of Argumentation. The special issue aims to reflect on argumentative practices (broadly construed) from t...
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31 August 2024

Technology, Nature, and Wellbeing in Contemporary Societies

Humans, more than any other species, transform the world according to their needs. The past few decades have witnessed significant shifts in technological and cultural development in various parts of the wor...
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The Crisis of Knowledge: Ethics, Politics and Epistemology

Our actions in a given domain do not arise solely from what we know: the motivation to act depends on many elements, that vary depending on the context. However, it is certainly true that what we know or bel...
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The Principle of Charity in Argumentation

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection Topoi entitled: The Principle of Charity in Argumentation. Special issue article publications often bring higher citations and visibility than r...
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31 January 2025

The Semantics of Imagination

Imagination has recently entered center stage in semantics and the philosophy of language. A surge of new work has begun to address issues concerning the nature of imagination and the semantics of imaginativ...
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The Social Epistemology of Social Media

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi on The Social Epistemology of Social Media. Special issue article publications often bring higher citations and visibility than regular...
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The varieties of anti-skepticism, from past to present

Since the days of Pyrrho of Elis, skepticism has had a long-standing appeal for philosophers. From Pyrrho’s time, the major controversies between philosophical schools have often been defined by skeptical id...
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Truthmaker Semantics: What, What for and How?

On (the simplest form of) the truthmaker approach to semantics, the meaning of a statement is taken to be the set of states which exactly verify it. Truthmaker semantics differs from possible worlds semantic...
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Virtue, Argumentation, and the Law

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi on Virtue, Argumentation, and the Law. Special issue article publications often bring higher citations and visibility than regular pape...
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Virtues, Wisdom, and Expertise

We are inviting submissions of papers for a Special Issue of the journal Topoi, entitled Virtues, Wisdom, and Expertise. The special issue aims to advance the research on virtue cultivation, wisdom, and expe...
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