About

Philosophical Logic is an international scientific journal that provides a venue for research at the intersection of philosophy and logic, with contributions ranging from conceptual analysis to technical developments.

The journal invites papers not only in the traditional areas of philosophical logic but also on extensions of logic to new areas of application and on the philosophical issues to which these give rise.

Focus and Scope

Philosophical Logic serves as a venue for scholarship at the intersection of philosophy and logic, welcoming contributions that span from conceptual analysis to technical developments. The journal solicits manuscripts across all domains of philosophical logic. Examples include forms of modal, temporal, epistemic, and deontic logic; constructive logics; relevance logic and other non-classical systems; many-valued logics; conditional logics; quantum logic; decision theory, inductive logic, belief revision, and formal epistemology; set theory; proof theory; model theory; computation; defeasible and nonmonotonic logics; logic and probability; formal semantics and philosophy of language; philosophy of logic and mathematics; mathematical philosophy; formal approaches to metaphysics; formal analyses of historical work in logic.

Beyond publishing work on philosophical logic in this conventional understanding, the journal welcomes submissions concerning extensions of logic into novel domains of application and the philosophical questions these extensions generate. The journal encourages the application of philosophical logic across other fields, including mathematics, natural sciences, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, jurisprudence, economics, and political science.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in making content publicly available.

Publication Fees

There are no publication fees. This journal is published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). Unlike many open-access publishers, the OLH does not charge any author fees. This does not mean that we do not have costs. Instead, our costs are paid by an international library consortium.

Voluntary Author Contributions

Authors who have access to institutional funds or grant funding earmarked for Open Access publication (via a research grant or through their institution's department or library)—and only those authors—are kindly asked to use those funds to cover the publication costs for their article in Philosophical Logic through a Voluntary Author Contribution (VAC). The VAC is genuinely voluntary. Whether or not the author is able to contribute makes absolutely no difference to editorial decision-making on the submission. For further information please see the publisher's policy on VACs.

Archiving, Indexing and Citation Metrics

Philosophical Logic is archived and indexed according to the publisher's policy.