BALKAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Mission Statement

Editorial Board

Requirements for manuscripts submitted

CALL FOR PAPERS for the SPECIAL ISSUE OF BJP for 2010

Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2009

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Mission Statement

Published under the auspices of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Balkan Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed international periodical, academic in spirit and wide-ranging in its potential readership. Its readers will primarily include professional philosophers in the Balkan region. In addition, it will appeal to scientists and scholars from different fields who maintain a significant interest in philosophy and in multi-disciplinary research involving philosophy.

The aim of the Journal is to publish high-quality papers on the most current problems and discussions in philosophy. No philosophical field or expertise is excluded a priori. Special attention will be devoted, however, to the treatment of these problems in the Balkans and south-eastern Europe , and to their influence on the development of philosophy in this region. The Balkan region has undergone great changes during the last two decades, both political and cultural, and this has affected the tenor of philosophical debates also. It is timely, therefore, and highly necessary to provide a forum for different philosophical voices and traditions in south-eastern Europe . The Balkan Journal of Philosophy aims to be such a forum and to publish papers that will serve as inspiration for further philosophical investigations.

The Balkan Journal of Philosophy will publish original papers, in English. There will be two issues per year, each of which will contain no more than ten papers. One of these issues will be devoted to a thematic topic while the other will be without thematic limits. Submissions for publication will be assessed through a double-blind review process.

One of the first tasks of the journal is to become a refereed publication in international authoritative editions like the Philosopher's Index .

The first issue of the Journal is expected at the beginning of 2009.

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-chief

Dr. Petrov, Vesselin is Associate Professor in the Department of “Ontology and Epistemolo­gy” of the Institute for Philosophical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). He is scientific secretary of the Institute for Philosophical Research. His fields of research are: ontolo­gy, applied ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science, process phi­lo­sophy. His book First Steps Towards the Mystery of the Continuum was published in 1999 in Bulgarian. He has about 80 papers in Bulgarian, English and Russian, and is editor of more than 10 books in Bulgarian and English. Dr. Petrov is President of the Bulgarian Ontological Society and also President of the Bulgarian Center for Process Studies. From 2004 to 2008 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of Philosophical Alternatives ( Bulgaria ), and from 2007 has been one of the International Book Review Coordinators for Process Studies .

Editorial Board (in alphabetic order)

Dr. Aiftinca, Marin is a university Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the Institute of Philoso­phy and Sociology at the Romanian Academy of Sciences ( Bucharest , Romania ). He is scien ­ tific secretary of the Philosophy, Theology, Psychology, and Pedagogy Department of the Romanian Academy . He is a Doctoral Coordinator at the Institute of Philosophy and Psy ­ cho ­ logy Constantin Radulescu-Motru of the Romanian Academy (philosophy of culture, aesthetics) . His fields of interest are philosophy of value, philosophy of culture, aesthetics, semio ­ tics, philosophy of langu a ge, and history of philosophy . He is the author of 7 books and a number of papers in English and Romanian. Dr. Aiftinca is a member of numerous boards and councils: The International Society for Value Inquiry (ISVI), USA, ( since 1992 ) ; The Board of Directors of ISVI, Purdue University, USA ( since 2004 ) ; the International Society for the History of the Hu ­ ma ­ nistic Sciences, Utrecht University ( since 1993 ) ; The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Catholic University of America, Washington ( since 1996 ) ; The Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute, North Carolina, USA ( since 2004 ). He is a founding member and secretary of the Philosophy of Values Board of the Romanian Academy ( since 2003 ) ; founding member of the Ttitulescu European Foundation (also a member of the leading board) from 1992-2007; and a founding member and assistant director of the Nicolae Iorg a Cultural Foundation, Valenii de Munte, from 1991-1995 .

Dr. Ambareva, Christina is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). Her main field of expertise is the philosophy of culture. She is currently for two years fellowship at Kyoto University , Japan .

Dr. Bakalova, Marina is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). Her fields of expertise are analytic philosophy and epistemology. She had a three years fellowship (2002 – 2005) at the Central European University , Budapest and a short fellowship in virtue epistemology at Fordham University (USA) under the supervision of Prof. John Greco (2006).

Dr. Barisi c , Pavo is Professor on history of philosophy at the University of Split ( Split , Chroatia). He is the President of the Chroatian Philosophical Society from 2007. From 1993 to 2006 he was Editor-in-chief of the journals Filozofska istrazivanja and Synthesis philosophica .

Dr. Cotuksoken, Betul is Professor in T. C. Maltepe University ( Istanbul , Turkey ). There she is a Dean of the Faculty of Science and Letters. Head of the Philosophy Department and Director of the Institute for Social Sciences. Her fields of research include medieval philosophy, the relation between subject and discourse, mind, ontology, epistemology, ethics, and human rights. She has 10 books and a number of publications in the above research fields. Prof. Cotuksoken is Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Turkey and a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter­national Federation of Philosophical Societies.

Dr. Desmond, William is Lecturer in Classics at the National University of Ireland, May­nooth. In addition to articles, he has published two monographs in ancient philosophy. The Greek Praise of Poverty (Notre Dame University Press, 2006) and Cynics (Acumen/Univer­sity of California Press, 2008). He edited the 2007 Yearbook for the Irish Philosophical Society and co-edited A Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought (Ontos Verlag, 2008) with Michel Weber. His areas of interest include ancient philosophy, German idealism and process thought.

Dr. Dimitrov, Ivajlo is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). His fields of expertise are epistemology and transcendental philosophy. He is currently a national contact point for Bulgaria for Framework Program 7: thematic priority “Science in Society”.

Dr. Dimitrova, Ina is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). She had several short-term fellowships in Hungary , Slovenia and the Slovak Republic. Her first book Reflexivity and Social Ontology is forthcoming. Currently she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Critical Social Studies at Plovdiv University . Her fields of expertise are the philosophy of social sciences, sociology, and sociology of science.

Dr. Grozdanoff, Boris is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). His main field of expertise is the philoso­phy of science. He had a three years' fellowship (2004 – 2007) at the Central European University , Budapest .

Dr. Gurova, Lilia is Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science and at New Bulgarian University ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). Her research interests are in history and philosophy of science, cognitive science, epistemology and philosophy of mind. She is the author of two books in Bulgarian and about 90 papers in English and Bulgarian. Dr. Gurova is a member of Philosophy of Science Association , Cognitive Science Society and European Philosophy of Science Association . She is currently a national contact point for Bulgaria for Framework Program 7: thematic priority “Science in Society”.

Dr. Lutskanov, Rosen is Assistant Professor in the Institute for philosophical research at the Bulgarian academy of sciences. He had several short-term specializations in Croatia , Hunga­ry , Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and participated in conferences in Belgium , Romania and the Czech Republic . His first book The Incompleteness Theorem: Contexts of Interpretation (in Bulgarian) is forthcoming by East-West Publishers. Currently he is vice-president of the Bulgarian Centre for Process Studies. Field of competence: mathematical and philosophi­cal logic, history and philosophy of logic and mathematics, ontology and epistemo­logy of formal sciences.

Dr. Makariev, Plamen is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Sofia Univer­sity “St. Kliment Ohridski” ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). From 1999 to 2007 he has been head of the Department of Philo­so­phy at the Faculty of Philosophy. Since 2007 he has been President of the General Assembly of the Faculty of Philosophy. His areas of scholarly focus are political philosophy, philosophy of culture and philosophy of education. He is a member of the Editorial board of the jour­nals Diaspora , Indigenous and Minority Education and Strategies for Policy in Science and Education . He is author and co-author of 10 books and collections in Bulgarian and English and of a number of articles in these languages. He is a member of the Association of the Teachers in Philosophy and of the Bulgarian Ontological Society .

Dr. Miscevic, Nenad is Professor of philosophy at Philosophy Department of the University of Maribor, Slovenia and Recurrent Visiting Professor at Philosophy Dep artment of Central European University , Budapest . His field of interest is analytic philosophy. Presently he is a member of the Steering Committee of European Society for Analytic Philosophy. He is also a member of the Editorial board of International Studies in the Philosophy of Science ( Oxford ), Studies in East European Thought (Kluwer, Boston ), Acta Analytica ( Dettelsbach , Germany ), Analiza ( Ljubljana , Slovenia ) and Chair of the Editorial Board of Croatian Journal of Philosophy ( Croatia ). Dr. Mis c evic has published 8 books in English, Croatian and Slovenian and a number of articles in these languages.

Dr. Norton, John is Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the University of Pittsburgh (USA) where he is also Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science . His research interests are in history and philosophy of physics and general philoso ­ phy of science . He has published more than 100 papers in English. Currently he is a member of the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association , a mem­ber of the Executive Committee of Einstein Papers Project ( California Institute of Techno ­ lo ­ gy, Pasadena , CA ), a Contributing Editor to Archive for History of Exact Sciences , and a member of the Editorial Boards of Philosophy of Science and the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .

Dr. Poli, Roberto teaches ethics and ontology at the University of Trento ( Italy ). His fields of interest include the theory of levels of reality, anticipatory systems, the theory of values, the category of person, and Central-European philosophy. He has published 4 volumes, edited more than 20 books or journal's special issues and published more than 150 papers. Dr. Poli is editor-in-chief of Axiomathes (Springer), a peer-reviewed academic jour­nal devoted to the study of ontology and cognitive systems; member of the E ditorial Boards of Dialogikon ( Cracow ), Western Philosophy Series (Ashgate), Process Thought (On­tos Verlag) and editor of Categories (Polimetrica). He is member of the Board of Directors of the Mitteleuropa Foundation ( Bolzano ), and of the Academic Board of the Metanexus Institute ( Philadelphia ).

Dr. Psillos, Stathis is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens , Greece . His areas of expertise are philosophy of science ( especially scientific realism; theory-change in science; confirmation theories, laws of nature; naturalised philosophy of science; abductive reasoning; explanation; causation; models and theories; conventionalism); epistemology (especially internalism/externa­lism; naturalised epistemology; theories of truth and reference; realism/anti-realism); me­ta­physics ( especially: causation, laws of nature); Poincare's philosophy of science; Car­nap's Philosophy of Science. Dr. Psillos is author of three books in Greek and English and of a number of articles. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the journals Philosophical Writings and Episteme. In 2007 he was elected a President of European Philosophy of Science Association.

Dr. Raftopoulos , Athanassios is Associate Professor of Epistemology and Cognitive Science at the Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, where he was head of the department from 2006 to 2008. He has received his Ph.D. f ro m the Johns Hopkins University, USA (1993). His current research interests include epistemology, cognitive science, philosophy and history of science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of perception. He has edited and co-authored four books in English, one in Cambridge University Press. He has a book in print with MIT Press ( Bradford series) and has published about 70 papers in refereed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has coordinated or participated as principal investigator in 8 national and European research projects.

Dr. Stojanovic, Isidora is a researcher (since October 2004) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) ( Paris , France ). Her fields of expertise include semantics, pragmatics, logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science. Her research profile includes language and cogni­tion, and her speciality is philosophy of language. She has Ph.D. in philosophy at Stanford University (USA) and Ph.D. in cognitive science at Ecole Polytechnique ( Paris , France ). She has many publications in authoritative journals. Dr. Stojanovic is a guest editor of Synthese , special issue in philosophy of language. She is a member of the American Philosophical Association (since 2002) and member of the International Pragmatic Association (since 2006). Her native language is Serbo-Chroatian, and she knows also French, English, Italian, Spanish (very good reading), Japanise (studied for 4 years), Latin (studied for 6 years), and Ancient Greek (studied for 2 years).

Dr. Todorov, Christo is Professor in the New Bulgarian University ( Sofia , Bulgaria ) and is Head of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He has more than 60 publications in Bulgarian, English, German, French, Spanish and Hungarian. He held DAAD and Humboldt Scholar­ships in 1990-91 and 1998-2000, respectively.

Dr. Todorova, Bogdana is Assistant Professor in the Institute for philosophical research at the Bulgarian academy of sciences ( Sofia , Bulgaria ). She is also the head of the Department of Anthropolo­gy and Religion Studies. Her fields of expertise include philosophy of religion, Islam, fundamentalism, minorities, and anthropology.

Dr. Weber, Michel is Director of the Centre for Philosophical Practice Chromatiques white­headiennes ( Brussels , Belgium ). He is co-editor of the collection Process Thought (Ontos Verlag). His field of interest is first of all process philosophy. He is the author of four monographs and of number of papers in collections, books proceedings and perio­dicals in French and English. Dr. Weber is a member of the Governing board of the International Process Network, of the Board of Directors of the International Pragmatism Society and also of the Editorial board of the journals William James Society ( USA ), Acta Neuropsy­chologica ( Poland ), and Studia Whiteheadiana ( Poland ).

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Instructions for Contributors

to the Balkan Journal of Philosophy

Aims and scopes
The Balkan Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed international periodical, academic in spirit and wide-ranging in its potential readership. The aim of the Journal is to publish high-quality papers on the most current problems and discussions in philosophy. No philosophical field or expertise is excluded a priori. Special attention will be devoted, however, to the treatment of these problems in the Balkans and South-Eastern Europe, and to their influence on the development of philosophy in this region. The Balkan Journal of Philosophy will publish original papers, in English. There will be two issues per year, each of which will contain no more than ten papers. One of these issues will be devoted to a thematic topic while the other will be without thematic limit.

General

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Vesselin Petrov (Institute for philosophical research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Sofia , Bulgaria )

EDITORIAL BOARD (in alphabetic order)

Athanasios Raftopoulos ( University of Cyprus – Nicosia , Cyprus )

Bet u l C otuksoken ( T.C.Maltepe University – Istanbul , Turkey )

Bogdana Todorova ( Institute for philosophical research – Sofia , Bulgaria )

Boris Grozdanoff (Institute for philosophical research – Sofia , Bulgaria )

Christina Ambareva (Institute for philosophical research – Sofia , Bulgaria )

Christo Todorov (New Bulgarian University – Sofia , Bulgaria )

Ina Dimitrova (Institute for philosophical research – Sofia , Bulgaria )

Ivaylo Dimitrov (Institute for philosophical research – Sofia , Bulgaria )

John Norton ( University of Pittsburgh , USA )

Lilia Gurova (New Bulgarian University – Sofia , Bulgaria )

Marin Aiftinca (Institute of philosophy and sociology – Bucharest , Romania )

Marina Bakalova (Institute for philosophical research – Sofia , Bulgaria )

Michel Weber (Centre for philosophical practice “Chromatiques Whiteheadiennes” – Brussels , Belgium )

Nenad Miscevic ( University of Maribor , Slovenia )

Plamen Makariev ( Sofia University , Bulgaria )

Roberto Poli ( University of Trento , Italy )

Rosen Lutskanov (Institute for philosophical research – Sofia , Bulgaria )

Stathis Psillos ( University of Athens , Greece )

William Desmond (National University of Ireland , Maynooth)

Types of papers

Original papers (up to 8000 words ), Reviews (up to 3000 words ), Book reviews (up to 4000 words ), Short communications (up to 2000 words ). Other types of article may be considered at the discretion of the editor-in-chief.

Language

English

The author is solely responsible for the grammatical quality of the paper. Non-native English speakers are urged to chek their submissions carefully for any grammatical mistakes.

Manuscript submission

Legal requirements
Submission of a manuscript implies that the work has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; and that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions
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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 copyright material. (Depending on the original program that is used to do the layout, only JPG and EPS files are accepted)

How to submit

Editorial procedure

Authors should submit their manuscripts online to: balkanjournalofphilosophy@gmail.com

Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times.

Manuscripts should not exceed 8000 words (or approximately 45 000 characters ), including abstract, footnotes, and references. Because referees often suggest changes that tend to lengthen a paper, it would be prudent for authors to submit an initial version whose length is somewhat shorter than the limit (e.g. 6000 words). Exceptions may be considered at the discretion of the editor-in-chief.

Texts of the manuscripts should be double-spaced with wide margins allowing for editorial notes and instructions for correction. In order to accommodate anonymous refereeing, the author's name and address should appear on a separate sheet and should not be repeated in the text. Please, do not send a separate file containing the references, bibliography, or footnotes. Include these parts on the paper in the main file.

Manuscripts files will not be returned.

Manuscript preparation
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 prepared in Word for Windows, formatted in A4 or US Letter, one side only, leaving adequate margins on all sides to accommodate reviewer's remarks. 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.

Title page

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The Balkan Journal of Philosophy follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission. Generic references in the submitted text to ‘I' or ‘me' (or other first-person pronouns) are permitted, unless they appear in conjunction with evidence that would lead the reader to infer to whom the pronoun refers.

•  Acceptable:

“In this paper, I will show that adaptationism is a grave sin.”

“My argument in section 2 applies here as well.”

•  Not Acceptable:

“As I have argued elsewhere …” ( Correction : “As Jones (2001) has argued …”)

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Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 200 words . The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords
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Text

Text formatting

For submission in Word

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Heading levels, numbering

Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.
Section headings should be numbered (e.g. 1., 1.1, 1.1.1, 2., 2.1, etc.).

Abbreviations and acronyms

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes

Footnotes on the title page are not given reference symbols.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).

Appendices
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References
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List style
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1. Journal article :
   Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al . (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965: 325-329
2. Inclusion of issue number (optional):
   Saunders DS (1976) The biological clock of insects. Sci Am 234(2): 114-121
3. Journal issue with issue editor :
   Smith J (ed) (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6): 126-233
4. Journal issue with no issue editor :
   Mod Genomics J (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6): 126-233
5. Book chapter :
   Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3 rd edn. Wiley, New York , pp 107-123
6. Book, authored :
   South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
7. Book, edited :
   Smith J, Brown B (eds) (2001) The demise of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
8. Chapter in a book in a series without volume titles :
   Schmidt H (1989) Testing results. In: Hutzinger O (ed) Handbook of environmental chemistry, vol 2E. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York , p 111
9. Chapter in a book in a series with volume title :
   Smith SE (1976) Neuromuscular blocking drugs in man. In: Zaimis E (ed) Neromuscular junction. Handbook of experimental pharmacology, vol 42. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York , pp 593-660
10. Proceedings as a book (in a series and subseries) :
    Zowghi D et al (1996) A framework for reasoning about requirements in evolution. In: Foo N, Goebel R (eds) PRICAI'96: topics in artificial intelligence. 4 th Pacific Rim conference on artificial intelligence, Cairns , August 1996. Lecture notes in computer science (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence), vol 1114. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York , p 157
11. Proceedings with an editor (without a publisher) :
    Aaron M (1999) The future of genomics. In: Williams H (ed) Proceedings of the genomic researchers, Boston , 1999
12. Proceedings without an editor (without a publisher) :
    Chung S-T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid from Streptomyces fradiae. In: Abstracts of the 3 rd international symposium on the genetics of industrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin , Madison , 4-9 June 1978
13. Paper presented at a conference :
    Chung S-T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid from Streptomyces fradiae. Paper presented at the 3 rd international symposium on the genetics of industrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin , Madison , 4-9 June 1978
14. Patent :
    Name and date of patent are optional
    Norman LO (1998) lightning rods. US Patent 4,379,752, 9 Sept 1998
15. Dissertation :
    Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California
16. Institutional author (book) :
    International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee (1966) Nomina anatomical. Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam
17. Non-English publication cited in an English publication :
    Wolf GH, Lehman P-F (1976) Atlas der Anatomie, vol 4/5, 4 th edn. Fischer , Berlin . [NB: Use the language of the primary document, not that of the reference for “vol” etc.!]
18. Non-Latin alphabet publication :
    The English translation is optional .
    Marikhin VY, Myasnikova LP (1977) Nadmolekulyarnaya struktura polimerov (The supermolecular structure of polymers). Khimiya, Leningrad
19. Published and in press articles with or without DOL :
    19.1 In press
    Wilson M et al (2006) References. In: Wilson M (ed) Style manual. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York (in press)
    19.2 Article by DOL (with page numbers)
    Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med 78:74-80. DOL 10.1007/s001090000086
    19.3 Article by DOL (before issue publication with page numbers)
    Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med (in press). DOL 10.1007/s001090000086
    19.4 Article in electronic journal by DOL (no paginated version)
    Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Dig J Mol Med. DOL 10.1007/s801090000086
20. Internet publication/Online document
    Doe J (1999) Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry. Available via DIALOG. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of subordinate document. Cited 15 Jan 1999
21. Online database
    Healthwise Knowledgebase (1998) US Pharmacopeia, Rockville , http://www.healthwise.org . Cited 21 Sept 1998
    Supplementary material/private homepage
    Doe J (2000) Title of supplementary material. http://privatehomepage.com . Cited 22 Feb 2000
    University site
    Doe J (1999) Title of preprint. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/mydata.html . Cited 25 Dec 1999
    FTP site
    Doe J (1999) Trivial HTTP, RFC2169. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2169.txt . Cited 12 Nov 1999
    Organization site
    ISSN International Centre (1999) Global ISSN database, http://www.issn.org . Cited 20 Feb 2000

Citation in text
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:

•  Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson 1990).

•  This result was later contradicted (Becker and Seliman 1996).

•  This effect has been widely suited (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al 1995; Kelso and Smith 1998; Medvec et al 1993).

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Copyright
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Online first
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Proof reading
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Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. One corrected proof, together with the original, edited manuscript, should be returned to the Publisher within three days of receipt by e-mail.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

For the SPECIAL ISSUE OF “ BALKAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY ”
FOR 2010

Please, submit your papers to the e-mail address: balkanjournalofphilosophy@gmail.com

The deadline for receiving manuscripts for this issue is the end of December 2009 and the description of the topic is as follows:

TRUST

Description of the topic:

As a factor in social life, trust is obviou sly important, but also problematic. One person trusts another in regard to a certain good (health, property, education, etc.), that is, in regard to something of value for her/him. Trusting someone, however, implies vulnerability, for a person who trusts another becomes dependent on that other's will and competence. In such situations we presume that their will is good and that they know what they are doing, although we can never be absolutely certain that this is the case. Not everyone deserves our trust and not everyone deserves our trust all the time. Hence the great question: whom can we trust and in what respect can we trust them? A further great question is this: how do we judge whether an individual, a group, a category of people, an institution deserves to be trusted? It seems that a philosophical debate on trust should deal with both issues.

For example, one of the characteristic features of the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity was the shift from trusting traditions and persons to trusting “abstract systems” and abstract rules of behaviour. This shift has brought about a substantial decontextualization of social life. Universal values have greater “weight” than culturally “impregnated” networks of social relations. Rational legitimacy, based on the calculation of the “gains” and “losses” ensuing from a norm or social practice has, to a great extent, displaced more traditional or charismatic legitimacies. Human activity has reoriented itself in regard to the future, because of the diminished importance of cultural continuity. On the other hand, all these transformations in which the establishment of the new kind of trust plays an important role, have brought about serious difficulties in the domain of morality, especially in regard to the meaning of social activity and the ultimate values that supposedly guide it.

Concerning knowledge, the old question “What makes knowledge trustworthy?” could be renewed by reformulating it in a historical mode: “What makes knowledge today more trustworthy than ever before?” Is it the increased “capacity to act” that has paved the way to the so-called “knowledge-based society”? Or the improved technologies of production, justification, and dissemination of knowledge? Or the interplay of all these factors? Perhaps non-epistemic social forces have played a no less crucial role in this process?

Balkan Journal of Philosophy invites submissions concerning these questions from different perspectives, such as universalist, contextualist, deontological or teleological, as well as papers dealing with classical epistemology and social epistemology, sociology of knowledge and knowledge management.

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