aap.org.auAustralasian Philosophical Review is a new and exciting journal in Open Peer Commentary format. It publishes significant and controversial invited lead articles by authors from all areas of philosophy, together with invited and open peer commentaries on those invited lead articles, and authors' responses to those commentaries.
Each issue has a different curator, (chosen by a committee of the Australasian Association of Philosophy); the curator is responsible for the choice of the authors of the invited lead article and the invited commentaries.
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Call for Proposals for Open Peer Commentaries
Lead Author: Shun Kwong-loi
Theme: Moral psychology - insights from Chinese Philosophy
Lead Article: Anger, Compassion, and the Distinction between First and Third Person
Curator: Loy Hui-chieh (National University of Singapore)
Invited commentaries from: Michael Slote, Chan Sin-yee, R. Jay Wallace, David Wong
Panel: Winnie Sung (Nanyang Technological University) & Doil Kim (Sungkyunkwan University).
Commentary Proposals due 30 November 2020.
Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued 14 December 2020.
Full-length commentaries due 28 February 2021.
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Call for Proposals for Open Peer Commentaries
Lead Author: Craig Callender
Theme: Decision Theory
Lead Article: The Normative Standard for Future Discounting
Curator: Samuel Baron
Invited commentaries from: Preston Greene, Kristie Miller, Katie Steele, Till Grüne-Yanoff
Panel: Samuel Baron, Remco Heesen
Commentary Proposals due 3rd July 2020.
Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued 24 July 2020.
Full-length commentaries due 18 September 2020.
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Call for Proposals for Open Peer Commentaries
Lead Author: Katherine Dormandy
Theme: Philosophy of Religion
Lead Article:
True Faith: Against Doxastic Partiality about Faith (in God and Religious Communities)
and in Defense of Evidentialism
Curator: Helen De Cruz
Invited commentaries from: Eva Schmidt, Samuel Lebens, Blake McAllister
Panel: Alexandra Romanyshyn, Ian Kidd
Commentary Proposals for APR DE CRUZ due 15 June 2020.
Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued 10 July 2020.
Full-length commentaries due 18 September 2020.
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Lead Author: Mary Kate McGowan
Theme: Political Philosophy
Lead Article: “Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm: An Overview and an Application”
Curator: Sarah Sorial
Invited commentaries from: Robert Mark Simpson, Caroline West, Ishani Maitra, Jeremy Waldron
Commentary Proposals due 1 May 2020.
Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued 25 May 2020.
Full-length commentaries due 10 August 2020.
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Lead Author: Genevieve Lloyd
Theme: Spinoza Today
Lead Article: Reconsidering Spinoza’s ‘Rationalism’
Curator: Joanne Faulkner
Invited commentaries from: Moira Gatens, Sandra Field
Panel: Joanne Faulkner, Renee England, Bryan Mukandi, Yves Saint James Aquino
Commentary Proposals for APR FAULKNER due 31January 2020
Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued 28 February 2020
Full-length commentaries due 30 June 2020
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Lead Author: Glen Pettigrove
Theme: Ethics
Lead Article: What Virtue Adds to Value
Curator: Matheson Russell
Invited commentaries from: Andrew Pinsent, Rebecca Stangl
Commentary Proposals for 4.2 RUSSELL are due 02 December 2019.
Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued 16 December 2019.
Full-length commentaries due 16 February 2020.
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Lead Author: Avner de Shalit
Theme: Political Philosophy
Lead Article: Political Philosophy and What People Think
Curator: Elisabeth Ellis
Invited commentaries from: Bas van der Vossen, Jo Wolff, Colleen Murphy
Commentary Proposals for 4.4 ELLIS due 22 November 2019.
Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words issued 6 December 2019.
Full-length commentaries due 6 February 2020.
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Lead Author: John Broome
Theme: Reasons and Rationality
Lead Article: "Rationality versus Normativity"
Curator: Garrett Cullity
Invited commentaries from: Nomy Arpaly, Krister Bykvist, Benjamin Kiesewetter, Julia Markovits, Hille Paakkunainen.
Commentary Proposals for APR 5.1 due 15 November 2019.
Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words issued 15 December 2019.
Full-length commentaries due 17 February 2020.
Editorial Board
Andrew Benjamin (Monash), Jacqueline Broad (Monash), Stephen Davies (Auckland),
Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern), Lisa Ellis (Otago), John Finnis (Oxford), Jay Garfield (Smith),
Moira Gatens (Sydney), Fiona Jenkins (ANU), Mark Johnston (Princeton), Karen Jones (Melbourne),
Marguerite La Caze (Queensland), Karyn Lai (UNSW), Chenyang Li (NTU), Cathay Liu (Yale/NUS),
Jeff Malpas (Tasmania), Alex Miller (Otago), Kristie Miller (Sydney), Paul Patton (UNSW), Laurie Paul (Chapel Hill),
Michael Pelczar (NUS), Philip Pettit (Princeton), Emma Rush (CSU), Peter Singer (Princeton),
Christine Swanton (Auckland), Brian Weatherson (Michigan), Caroline West (Sydney), John Williams (SMU)
APR Advisory Committee
Justine Kingsbury (Waikato University), Nichola Smith (Macquarie University),
Amber Carpenter (National University of Singapore - Yale)
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