Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Philosophical Psychology
For a Special Issue on
Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Lisa Bortolotti,
University of Birmingham (UK) and University of Ferrara (Italy)
l.bortolotti@bham.ac.uk
Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
To honour the legacy of Helen De Cruz, beloved editorial board member who was a brilliant philosopher, but also an educator, a musician, a fiction writer, and an illustrator, Philosophical Psychology invites contributions on the way in which philosophical concepts and ideas can be conveyed through art, games, and fiction.
Questions may include the following:
- What is the role of fables in developing philosophical arguments or ideas?
- What is the epistemic value of fiction? Can a story on its own convey an an argument?
- Can we do philosophy using interactive games or videogames?
- Do TV series (such as Severance or Silo) merely illustrate philosophical problems or can they be used to address them and solve them as well?
- How do art and literature contribute to moral agency?
- Is philosophy itself a form of art?
- How can thought experiments be used to assess a philosophical theory?
Submission Instructions
- When submitting your paper, please select "Philosophy through Art" as the title of the special issue in the drop-down menu.
- We welcome conceptual and empirical papers. We expect papers not to exceed 10,000 words but there is some flexibility.
- It is our policy that only papers that have been through peer review and have attracted two positive reports from independent reviewers are accepted for publication.
- Papers will be published online as they become available but they will only be assigned to an issue when all papers in the special issue will have completed production.