About
Mission Statement
The Journal of Philosophy of Emotion (JPE) is a biannual (summer, September and winter, January issues) interdisciplinary philosophy journal that was officially established in Las Vegas, Nevada, as a domestic non-profit corporation on August 24, 2016, and on March 31, 2021, it was deemed to be a 501(3)(c), 509(a)(2) public charity by the US Department of Treasury. Its aim is to be an internationally recognized, gold open access, philosophy journal specializing in the publication of high-quality, double-anonymously peer-reviewed manuscripts that address philosophical interests on the topic of emotion, broadly construed (e.g., including affect), from a wide range of philosophical or interdisciplinary perspectives, across all traditions. It also aims to demonstrate the possibility of cost-effective, independent, specialized publishing through its innovative use of Google Workspace applications as its primary publishing platform. All issues are accessible through the JPE website, including PDF files for downloading, using Google Sites and archived using a dedicated Google Drive. The JPE holds that philosophers of emotion can learn from experts in other areas and disciplines, and vice versa, and is especially interested in work that demonstrate how issues in the philosophy of emotion are relevant to other areas in philosophy and other disciplines, and vice versa. It seeks to encourage an open exchange of ideas and appropriate, reasonable dialogue between scholars by providing a space where interdisciplinary pursuits in the philosophy of emotion can flourish. It does not promote any specific ideology, school, tradition, or methodology, but asks contributors to maintain an equal respect for all co-participants in its endeavors. It also shares the core values of diversity, inclusiveness, collegiality/community, honesty, integrity, the principle of charity, rigorous scholarship, and clarity of content with its affiliated society, the Society for Philosophy of Emotion.
The Journal’s Aims & Scope
Although the JPE takes an interdisciplinary approach by publishing manuscripts written from any disciplinary perspective, because the JPE’s focus is to publish articles that engage the interests, concerns, problems, or questions in the area of philosophy of emotion, manuscripts should explicitly address such concerns, problems, etc., and the relevant literature within the philosophy of emotion and have a clear argumentative structure. We also ask authors to make the import of their paper's main conclusion to the current discourse on the relevant topic in question as clear as possible, and to explicitly situate their contribution in the relevant larger discourse to help readers and researchers locate the significance of the author's contribution to the larger discourse. Furthermore, we ask authors to make sure to provide a clear exposition of any theory that the author will be addressing.
Publishing Platform and Internet Archiving
The JPE is a small, independent journal that publishes through Google Sites. As such, all materials are archived online through the JPE's Google Drive and Google Site. Authors are also required to use Google Docs and be able to receive emails from the JPE's Gmail service when submitting a manuscript for publication. They can do so by simply going to www.gmail.com, and signing-up for a Gmail account if they do not already have one.
Symposium
Symposiums on papers, including comments and replies of approximately 3,000 words each in length, excluding notes and references, that present a discussion of an interesting or unique perspective, argument, or solution on a particular problem or question in the area of philosophy of emotion.
Book Symposium
Book symposium, including author's précis, comments, and replies of approximately 3,000 words each in length, excluding notes and references, that present a discussion of an interesting or unique perspective, argument, or solution on a particular problem or question in the area of philosophy of emotion.
The JPE also publishes book symposiums as a part of book symposium sessions that take place as Society for Philosophy of Emotion (SPE) affiliated group sessions, at the annual American Philosophical Association conferences. Unlike independently organized and submitted book symposiums, these book symposiums are organized though the SPE. One must be a member of the SPE in order to propose a book symposium session through the SPE. Anyone, however, is welcome to become a member. For more information about the SPE and becoming a member, please visit the SPE website.
After an SPE book symposium session, all contributors will be ask to prepare their final draft for the symposium by the due date they were given. Since the contributions are a part of a dialogue between participants, they will be asked to refrain from making any substantial changes to their commentaries or replies. Publishing commentaries and replies as originally given is important and beneficial for others to learn from them, and one should never be ashamed of being open about one's mistakes as long as one is able to learn from that experience. I do, however, encourage all the contributors to communicate with each other about incorporating various comments from the discussions during the Q&A session, especially with an eye toward presenting a fair and charitable commentary and response. Contributors will also be asked to work things out with relevant participants if one makes any changes after the session that might put another contributor in a difficult position when all the papers are read as a whole. For example, making any changes that might introduce a disjoint between comments and replies. All the contributions should constitute a coherent symposium. Contributors may also be asked to provide more details to their commentaries and to include any citations that would help readers follow-up on their comments as research leads, and to copy edit their contribution in advance.
Furthermore, once everyone has prepared their contributions, contributors should submit the entire symposium as one symposium submission, with the author as the “lead” author and everyone else named as co-authors. This, however, will only be for the submission process so the editors can keep the peer reviews contained within one submission. If the symposium passes peer review, each contribution (précis, each commentary, and the replies as a single set) will be published only under each relevant author’s name and each will be given its own DOI.
Recent Publications
The JPE will publish, beginning with their second issue, information about recent publications (within 2 years prior to an issue's publication year) that are or could be relevant to the area philosophy of emotion, from an interdisciplinary perspective. If you would like to submit information about a recently published book or edited collection, please complete the JPE's Recent Publication Announcement form.
Please also note that this service is free of charge, but we would appreciate any support you would be willing to provide in order to help the JPE fulfill its mission. Please do so using the donation button provided on the JPE home page.
Please note that as of August 2024, the JPE will be focusing primarily on the publication of paper and book symposia.