期刊名称：SYNTHESE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Synthese publishes articles in all the fields covered by the subtitle. These include: the theory of knowledge; the general methodological problems of science, such as the problems of scientific discovery and scientific inference, of induction and probability, of causation and the role of mathematics, statistics and logic in science; the methodological and foundational problems of different sciences. Insofar as they have philosophical interest: those aspects of symbolic logic and of the foundations of mathematics which are relevant to the philosophy and methodology of science; and those facets of the ethics, history and sociology of science which are important for contemporary topical pursuits. Special attention is paid to the role of mathematical, logical and linguistic methods in the general methodology of science and the foundations of the different sciences.
SPECIAL SECTION: Knowledge, Rationality and Action:
The aim of the section is to provide a platform for researchers interested in a formal approach to the process comprising rational behaviour: from gathering and representing information, via reasoning and decision making up to acting. Consequently, the journal will address topics related to:
Knowledge - Gathering information, reasoning about knowledge, belief, uncertainty, and information about changing situations: belief revision and updates, dynamics epistemic logic, security and authorisation.
Rationality - Decision making, bounded rationality and resource bounded reasoning, optimal and satisfycing behaviour, preferences, cooperative and competitive behaviour, logic and game theory, solution concepts of games, computational models of rational behaviour, planning, theories of norms.
Action - Theories of action, theories of belief and action, rational agency, social structures, logic for action and change, sensing, temporal reasoning, re-planning, verification of dynamic systems, logic programming, the frame problem, action and cognition.
The scope of Knowledge, Rationality and Action is interdisciplinary: it will be of interest to researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, agents, computer science, knowledge representation, game theory, economics, logic, philosophy, mathematics, cognitive science, cryptography, and auction theory, as well as to application specialists using formal and mathematical methods and tools.
Instructions to Authors
Kluwer Academic Publishers now offers authors, editors and reviewers of Synthese the option of using our fully web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. To keep the review time as short as possible (no postal delays!), we encourage authors to submit manuscripts online to the journal's editorial office. Our online manuscript submission and review system offers authors the option to track the progress of the review process of manuscripts in real time. Manuscripts should be submitted to:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/synt
The online manuscript submission and review system for Synthese offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission procedures. This system supports a wide range of submission file formats: for manuscripts - Word, WordPerfect, RTF, TXT and LaTex; for figures - TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, PPT, and Postscript.
Papers for the special Synthese section Knowledge, Rationality & Action can also be submitted via Editorial Manager. Authors that want to submit an article to Knowledge, Rationality & Action can also make use of the online submission and review system. They should indicate that the manuscript is intended for the special section by selecting the article type: "Knowledge, Rationality & Action submission" from the drop down menu.
NOTE: By using the online manuscript submission and review system, it is NOT necessary to submit the manuscript also in printout + disk. In case you encounter any difficulties while submitting your manuscript on line, please get in touch with the responsible Editorial Assistant by clicking on "CONTACT US" from the tool bar.
LaTex
For submission in LaTeX, Kluwer Academic Publishers have developed a Kluwer LaTeX class file, which can be downloaded from: http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles/
Use of this class file is highly recommended. Do not use versions downloaded from other sites. Technical support is available at: texhelp@wkap.nl. If you are not familiar with TeX/LaTeX, the class file will be of no use to you. In that case, submit your article in a common word processor format.
Reviewing Procedure
Synthese follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested not to include their name or affiliation in their submitted papers. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided. Authors should thus make sure that their names and/or affiliations are NOT mentioned on any of the manuscript pages.
Manuscript Presentation
The journal‘s language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed consistently throughout the article. Manuscripts should be printed or typewritten on A4 or US Letter bond paper, one side only, leaving adequate margins on all sides to allow reviewers?remarks. Please double-space all material, including notes and references. Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting the left-hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense.
Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing:
running head (shortened title)
title
Abstract
Please provide a short abstract of 100 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Figures and Tables
Submission of electronic figures
In addition to hard-copy printouts of figures, authors are requested to supply the electronic versions of figures in either Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or TIFF format. Many other formats, e.g., Microsoft Postscript, PiCT (Macintosh) and WMF (Windows), cannot be used and the hard copy will be scanned instead.
Figures should be saved in separate files without their captions, which should be included with the text of the article. Files should be named according to DOS conventions, e.g., ’figure1.eps? For vector graphics, EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25pts and in-fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS is also acceptable. The following resolutions are optimal: black-and-white line figures - 600 - 1200 dpi; line figures with some grey or coloured lines - 600 dpi; photographs - 300 dpi; screen dumps - leave as is. Higher resolutions will not improve output quality but will only increase file size, which may cause problems with printing; lower resolutions may compromise output quality. Please try to provide artwork that approximately fits within the typeset area of the journal. Especially screened originals, i.e. originals with grey areas, may suffer badly from reduction by more than 10-15%.
AVOIDING PROBLEMS WITH EPS GRAPHICS
Please always check whether the figures print correctly to a PostScript printer in a reasonable amount of time. If they do not, simplify your figures or use a different graphics program.
If EPS export does not produce acceptable output, try to create an EPS file with the printer driver (see below). This option is unavailable with the Microsoft driver for Windows NT, so if you run Windows NT, get the Adobe driver from the Adobe site (www.adobe.com).
If EPS export is not an option, e.g., because you rely on OLE and cannot create separate files for your graphics, it may help us if you simply provide a PostScript dump of the entire document.
HOW TO SET UP FOR EPS AND POSTSCRIPT DUMPS UNDER WINDOWS
Create a printer entry specifically for this purpose: install the printer ’Apple Laserwriter Plus?and specify ‘FILE? as printer port. Each time you send something to the ’printer?you will be asked for a filename. This file will be the EPS file or PostScript dump that we can use.
The EPS export option can be found under the PostScript tab. EPS export should be used only for single-page documents. For printing a document of several pages, select ’Optimise for portability?instead. The option ’Download header with each job?should be checked.
Submission of hard-copy figures
If no electronic versions of figures are available, submit only high-quality artwork that can be reproduced as is, i.e., without any part having to be redrawn or re-typeset. The letter size of any text in the figures must be large enough to allow for reduction. Photographs should be in black-and-white on glossy paper. If a figure contains colour, make absolutely clear whether it should be printed in black-and-white or in colour. Figures that are to be printed in black-and-white should not be submitted in colour. Authors will be charged for reproducing figures in colour.
Each figure and table should be numbered and mentioned in the text. The approximate position of figures and tables should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript. On the reverse side of each figure, the name of the (first) author and the figure number should be written in pencil; the top of the figure should be clearly indicated. Figures and tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript following the Reference section. Each figure and table should be accompanied by an explanatory legend. The figure legends should be grouped and placed on a separate page. Figures are not returned to the author unless specifically requested.
In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table.
Section Headings
First-, second-, third-, and fourth-order headings should be clearly distinguishable and numbered. (e.g., 1., 1.1, 1.1.1, 2., 2.1, etc.).
Appendices
Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix and placed before the Notes and Reference sections.
Notes
Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text and listed at the end of the article before the References. A source reference note should be indicated by means of an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.
Cross-Referencing
In the text, a reference identified by means of an author‘s name should be followed by the date of the reference in parentheses and page number(s) where appropriate. When there are more than two authors, only the first author‘s name should be mentioned, followed by ’et al.? In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like ’a?and ’b?after the date to distinguish the works.
Examples:
Winograd (1986, 204)
(Winograd 1986a, b)
(Winograd 1986; Flores et al. 1988)
(Bullen and Bennett 1990)
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References.
References
References to books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical order (see examples below). Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article text (e.g., T. Moore, personal communication).
References to books should include the author‘s name; year of publication; title; page numbers where appropriate; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.
Krantz, D.H., R.D. Luce, P. Suppes, and A. Tversky: 1971, Foundations of Measurement, Vol. 2. Academic Press, New York.
References to articles in an edited collection should include the author‘s name; year of publication; article title; editor‘s name; title of collection; first and last page numbers; publisher; place of publication., in the order given in the example below.
Hintikka, J.: 1966, ’A Two-Dimensional Continuum of Inductive Methods? in J. Hintikka and P. Suppes (eds), Aspects of Inductive Logic, North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 113-32.
References to articles in periodicals should include the author‘s name; year of publication; article title full title of periodical; volume number (issue number where appropriate); first and last page numbers in the order given in the example below.
Lewis, D.: 1984, ’Putnam‘s Paradox? Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62, 221-236.
References to technical reports or doctoral dissertations should include the author‘s name; year of publication; title of report or dissertation; institution; location of institution, in the order given in the example below.
Sprites, P., R. Scheines, C. Glymour and C. Meek: 1993, TETRAD II. Documentation for Version 2.2. Technical Report, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author by e-mail (if no e-mail address is available or appears to be out of order, proofs will be sent by regular mail).
Your response, with or without corrections, should be sent within 72 hours. Please do not make any changes to the PDF file. Minor corrections (+/- 10) should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: proofscorrection@wkap.nl. Always quote the four-letter journal code and article number and the PIPS No. from your proof in the subject field of your e-mail. Extensive corrections must be clearly marked on a printout of the PDF file and should be sent by first-class mail (airmail overseas).
Offprints
25 offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional offprints (both hard copies and PDF files) can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied with the proofs.
Page Charges and Colour Figures
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. Colour figures are published at the author‘s expense only.
Copyright
Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material.
Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained from:
Kluwer Academic Publishers
SYNTHESE
P.O. Box 990
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Fax: 00 31 (0)78 6576254
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
John Symons
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Honorary Editor:
Jaakko Hintikka
Dept. of Philosophy, Boston University, MA, USA
Special Section Editor: Wiebe van der Hoek, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK
Editorial Board:
John Bickle, University of Cincinnati, USA; Radu Bogdan, Tulane University, USA; Nino Cocchiarella, Indiana University, USA; John Etchemendy, Stanford University, USA; Anne Fagot-Largeault, Universit¨¦ de Paris I, France; Vincent F. Hendricks, University of Roskilde, Denmark; Risto Hilpinen, University of Miami, USA; Robert Howell, SUNY at Albany, USA; Hilary Kornblith, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA; Theo Kuipers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Ernest Lepore, Rutgers University, USA; Barry Loewer, Rutgers University, USA; Paolo Mancosu, University of California, Berkeley, USA; David McCarty, Indiana University, USA; Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University, Sweden; Barry Richards, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK; Vadim Sadovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame, USA; Harvey Siegel, University of Miami, USA; David Woodruff Smith, University of California at Irvine, USA; Elliot Sober, University of Wisconsin, USA; Göran Sundholm, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Patrick Suppes, Stanford University, USA; Lucia M. Vaina, Boston University, USA; Jan Wole¨½ski, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Editorial Board Special Section Knowledge, Rationality and Action:
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Stanford University, USA; Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto, Canada; Giacomo Bonanno, University of California at Davis, USA; Vincent Hendricks, Roskilde University, Denmark; Paul Gochet, University of Li¨¨ge, Belgium; Mamoru Kaneko, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Rohit Parikh, Brooklyn College, USA; Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University, Sweden; Hans Rott, Regensburg University, Germany; Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Gabriel Sandu, University of Helsinki, Finland; Krister Segerberg, Uppsala University, Sweden; Robert Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, U
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