Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy

Sample articles

• Sample Volume 1

Peer-reviewed annual publication, featuring articles, book reviews and interviews encompassing a broad range of current issues in philosophy and its related disciplines ISSN: 2009-1842 (PRINT) Journal metadata

XML | RDF

Sample articles

HTML & PDF

• Aims and scope
• Profile
• Editors
• Guide to authors
• Contact

• Aims and scope

  Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed annual publication, featuring articles, book reviews and interviews encompassing a broad range of current issues in philosophy and its related disciplines.

• Profile

  Perspectives reflects the broad range of interests amongst the UCD postgraduate philosophy community, publishing work from within both the analytic and continental traditions. Perspectives also welcomes submissions addressing philosophical problems from related disciplines.
  Perspectives publishes the highest standard of postgraduate scholarship.
  
  

• Editors

  Founding Editors
  
  Anna Nicholson, Luna Dolezal, Sheena Hyland
  
  Editors
  
  Tim Burns
  Fergal McHugh
  Bart Zantvoort
  
  International Board of Reviewers
  
  Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin)
  Joseph Cohen (University College Dublin)
  Christopher Cowley (University College Dublin)
  Fred Cummins (University College Dublin)
  Tsarina Doyle (NUI Galway)
  Brian Elliott (University College Dublin)
  Sinead Hogan (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin)
  Fiona Hughes (University of Essex, UK)
  Galen Johnson (University of Rhode Island, USA)
  Christopher Mole (University College Dublin)
  Dermot Moran (University College Dublin)
  Aislinn O’Donnell (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)
  Felix Ó Murchadha (NUI Galway)
  Jim O’Shea (University College Dublin)
  Patrick Quinn (All Hallows College, Dublin)
  Tanja Staehler (University of Sussex, UK)
  

• Guide to authors

  Submissions should be between 5000-7000 words. Please include a brief abstract (120 words) with keywords. Also include a brief biography for the contributor’s page, should you paper be accepted. Make sure to include all relevant contact information, including a permanent e-mail address.
  
  The manuscript should be typed, double-spaced, justified, on one side only and footnotes (also double-spaced) should be at the end of the text. A margin of at least one inch on each of the four sides of the sheet should be left. Paragraphs should be indented or marked by a double return. Block quotations (usually anything over forty words) should be indented two spaces from the left, without quotation marks. Use double quotes and single within for quoted matter in the text itself. Please mark all sub-headings clearly and flag them A, B or C in the margin if necessary to show their relative importance.
  
  Footnotes should be brief and kept to a minimum. Citations of works should be presented in the APA style.
  
  Numbers: Spell out numbers from one to ninety-nine unless used with units, e.g. 2km; ages, e.g. a 10-year-old girl; or passages with a lot of statistics. Use minimum digits, e.g. 121-7 not 121-127.
  
  Percentages: Use 10 per cent in the text, % is acceptable in tables.
  
  Abbreviations and contractions: Use full stops after abbreviations (p., Ch.) but not contractions or acronyms (Dr, St, BBC, USA). Please note: ed. eds, etc.

• Contact