Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Studia Philosophica Estonica is an academic peer-reviewed journal open to contributions from any country and in all areas of philosophy. The journal publishes scholarly articles in English, German, and Estonian.

The purpose of Studia Philosophica Estonica is to publish scholarly papers and notes embodying original research in all areas of philosophy. We encourage interdisciplinary contributions and submissions that use new approaches to elucidate their topic, provided they confirm to the contemporary standards of scientific rigor. Detailed treatments of specific themes are also welcome. We also publish book notices and reviews.

Despite its name the journal is not restricted to contributors from Estonia. We encourage all interested parties to take part in its development. If you are interested in publishing in SPE, you are welcome to contact the editors using either e-mail or postal address. Be sure to check the guidelines for contributors before submitting your article, if your submission answers to a specific call for papers, check the relevant call for a specification of submission guidelines.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Editors
  • Daniel Cohnitz, Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu
  • Eduard Parhomenko, Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu
  • Kadri Simm, Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Editors
  • Daniel Cohnitz, Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu
  • Eduard Parhomenko, Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu
  • Kadri Simm, Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Publication Frequency

Studia Philosophica Estonica is published primarily as an online journal. After the acceptance decision is made, papers are immediately published in their final form. This concerns in particular all papers received through open submission, i.e. submissions to SPE that do not answer a specific call for papers for a special issue. Special issues, unlike the open submissions, will continue to be published in "one package."

SPE is published in "volumes." One volume consists of the issue that contains all "open submissions" of one year, comprising all articles accepted between January 1 and December 31 of that year, and the special issues of that year.

Starting from 2009, issue 1 of each volume is (as by default) the issue that publishes over the year the accepted papers, as they are accepted, issue 2 to n (if there are any) are special issues. A special issue gets published when all papers for that special issue are ready. Some of the special issues might appear in printed form. This decision will be made by the editor.

The pagination of each issue begins with page number 1. This way, the continuous publication in issue 1 can not conflict with the pagination in the other issues

Since it is customary to drop reference to issues when citing an article, but rather to provide only the volume number and the pages of that article, the customary way of referring to an article would in our case be insufficient to identify an article. For that reason, the issue number will be part of the volume number: the first issue of 2008, the year of our first volume, is in volume 1.1 of SPE, the second issue in volume 1.2, etc.

In (the unlikely) case that we receive no open submission in a year, the first special issue of that year will be volume i.1. This decision will be made by the Editor in Chief when the first special issue in that year is ready for publication.

Since a paper might be published in volume i.2 preceding a paper that is published in volume i.1, we will indicate the month of publication on the first page of each article. This way our readers will be able to keep track of the course of a discussion (e.g. when a later paper refers back to an earlier paper published in our journal).

 

Open Access Policy

Studia Philosophica Estonica provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

History of the Journal

The history of this journal can be traced back to the Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis which were founded in 1893; after WWII it was continued during the Soviet period as Papers on Philosophy which, as a series of Tartu University Transactions was published almost entirely in Russian. Since 1993 the journal was published primarily in Estonian and called Studia Philosophica.

Now we wish to take Studia Philosophica Estonica to a new level, by opening it to international contributors and readers and installing an academic peer-review system that can guarantee a high quality of the articles published

 


Online ISSN: 1736-5899 | Print ISSN: 2228-110X