Papers should be submitted via email to submissions@journalofphilosophy.org. Please include the names of all co-authors in your email (not in your manuscript). Submitted papers will receive a manuscript number. Until you receive a manuscript number, your submission has not been processed and is not under review.

The Journal of Philosophy is published monthly, in issues that (ordinarily) contain only 56 or 60 pages of copy. This limits the length of papers we can consider to 12,000 words, including abstracts, keywords, references, and all other text. Longer papers will be returned to authors. We will check the word count of PDFs using this site:

https://www.montereylanguages.com/pdf-word-count-online-free-tool.html

The papers we publish make sustained, original contributions to meaningful debates in the field, as judged by the editors. We aim to publish the best and most distinctive philosophy papers of 12,000 words or less. We publish about thirty papers annually. We recommend that authors check recent volumes to get a clear sense of the Journal's scope.

While we do not publish manuscripts that mainly comment on articles published elsewhere, we do publish short responses to Journal of Philosophy articles. Submissions to this "Comments and Criticism" section should be no more than 5,000 words and should respond to papers published by The Journal of Philosophy within the past five years. Please cite and provide a copy of the most current version of the paper to which your manuscript responds — especially the published version, if available — as a supplemental file. Please note that the editors will not consider replies to "Comments and Criticism" pieces for publication.

The Journal of Philosophy does not publish papers that are primarily historical or expository. Currently, the editors are not considering experimental philosophy. Book reviews are by invitation only.

Please also observe the following guidelines when preparing submissions:

• (1) We can consider papers in Word and PDF format only.
• (2) Include an abstract of no more than 150 words and at least two keywords at the beginning of your manuscript.
• (3) Include page numbers.
• (4) Include a list of references at the end of your paper.
(5) Manuscripts must be prepared for triple-anonymous review, with all revealing references to the author removed, including personal acknowledgments. Author names should be omitted from the manuscript file's properties and metadata. ** If your identity is not concealed, we may reject the paper outright.** When citing your own works, please either redact the publication details or refer to such works in the third person, whichever is most appropriate and least revealing.
• (6) Integrate figures and diagrams into the manuscript.
• (7) Submitted papers may be returned if they include no references or if the quality of writing does not meet an appropriate threshold.
• (8) Name the manuscript file with the paper's title.

Formatting requirements for accepted papers will be specified separately.

We will make an effort to notify corresponding authors when we secure at least one reviewer. Our editors obligate themselves to provide comments to authors when we keep a paper under review for six months or longer. However, editors usually pass along constructive referee comments whenever such comments are available. Regardless, the views expressed by readers are not necessarily endorsed by the editors.

Contacting any editor other than the managing editor is expressly forbidden. Doing so violates anonymous review and makes it impossible for the Journal to consider your paper further. Insults and other foul language will not be tolerated. Repeated attempts to contact editors or staff about a paper after a final decision notice will be considered harassment. Notices of rejection are final. After a paper has been rejected, regardless of the extent of revision it may have undergone, it may not be submitted again unless the author is explicity invited to do so.

Submission statistics for the period from March 1, 2024, through May 31, 2024:

• Total submissions: 238
• Total accepted: 4
• Average days to rejection without comments: 47
• Average days to rejection with comments: 127
• Average days to revise and resubmit: 142
• Average days to accept (includes revised submissions): 96
• Acceptance rate: 1.6%
• Undecided: 2.9%