Topics currently being discussed in the journal include: causation, the logic of natural selection, the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the direction of time, probability, confirmation, foundations of mathematics, supertasks and the theory of emotion.
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NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS
All submissions of articles and discussion notes should be sent to the editors:
Professor Alexander Bird and Dr James Ladyman
Department of Philosophy
University of Bristol
9 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7826
Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7825
Email: BJPS editors
Articles on any aspect of the philosophy of science will be considered. Discussion notes related to articles previously published in the Journal are welcome.
Contributors should send their submissions either in hard copy or by email. If submitting in hard copy, please send three hard copies, which will not normally be returned, to the editors at the address above. If submitting by email, please send your submission to BJPS editors, preferably in PDF with wide margins.
Submissions:
?should be prepared for blind refereeing, with identifying references removed;
?must be prefaced by an abstract of about 100 words;
?need not be in any particular style on initial submission, but if they are accepted for publication we will require a version in the Journal's style;
?should be accompanied by the telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
Further details about submitting the final version of your manuscript can be found here.
Details about the style of the journal can be found here.
Every effort will be made to ensure that decisions on all submissions take place within six weeks of receipt.
Funding
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section. The following rules should be followed: the full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. "National Institutes of Health" not "NIH" grant numbers should be given in brackets; multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma; agencies should be separated by a semi-colon; no extra wording like 'Funding for this work was provided by ...' should be used; where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'. An example is given here: "National Institutes of Health (CB5453961 to C.S., DB645473 to M.H.); Funding Agency (hfygr667789)."
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Books for review
Books for review should be sent to the editors. All correspondence concerning reviews, other than books for review themselves, should be addressed to the Deputy Editor.
AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY
For information about this journal's policy, please ubmission of articles
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science receives over 250 submissions a year. The editors seek advice from the members of the editorial panel and a large number of expert referees.
The new editors have instituted the policy of deciding on all submissions within six weeks of receipt. This is partly because we want to encourage authors to send us articles, but also because we think it is unnecessary, and therefore wrong, for authors to be kept waiting longer.
The editorial team also ensures comprehensive coverage of books on philosophy of science and related subjects and publishes longer review articles on books of major significance in the field.
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is published for The British Society for the Philosophy of Science by Oxford University Press. The Society holds monthly meetings during the academic year, at which papers are read and discussed. The venue for meetings is the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, Tymes Court Building, London School of Economics. These meetings are open to Society members and the general public. The Society also holds a three-day annual conference each September, and occasional one-day conferences at different venues.
Membership to the Society is open to anybody on payment of the annual subscription. Members can subscribe to the Journal at a reduced rate, receive the programme of monthly Society talks, and are entitled to vote at the general meetings of the Society. The annual membership of the Society is for the UK and Europe, $11 for the USA and elsewhere. Student memberships are ?. For further information on joining, please write to the Membership Secretary, British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK.
The Committee of the Society is responsible for the management of the Journal.
The Committee for 2005-2007 is:
- President: Professor Steven French
- President-Elect: Professor Harvey Brown
- Hon. Secretary: Dr James Ladyman
- Hon. Treasurer: Dr Alice Drewery
- Members: Dr Rachel Cooper, Dr Tim Lewens, Dr Oliver Pooley
Further information about the The British Society for the Philosophy of Science is available at their website.
Impact Factor
In the 2006 ISI Journal Citation Reports, the impact factor for The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 0.689 and it is ranked 5/28 in the Social Science Index of the History and Philosophy of Science category.
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Editorial Board
EDITOR:
ASSISTANT EDITOR:
Dr Stuart Presnell
EDITORIAL ADVISORY PANEL:
Jeremy Butterfield
Nancy Cartwright
Dorothy Edginton
Marcus Giaquinto
Barry Gower
Keith Hossack
Colin Howson
Peter Lipton
Moshe Machover
John Milton
Michael Redhead
Peter Urbach
John Worrall
Elie Zahar
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