Journal Policies

Editorial Oversight

The Executive Board selects the journal's various editors. This includes Editors and members of the Executive Board.

Editors distribute papers among themselves according to their fields of expertise and invite reviewers to provide evaluations.

All Editors serve three-year terms, which can be renewed.

Following peer review, the Editor handling the paper makes a recommendation to the other Editors based on the peer review reports. The Editors then make a final decision on the basis of the peer review reports and the handling Editor’s recommendation.

This journal cultivates a broad and experienced Editorial Board that contains members from across different nations, academic institutions, genders and demographics. Potential board members are approached by the editorial team while keeping this diversity in mind.

Peer Review Process

Submitted manuscripts are initially screened by the Editors. A successful research article will then be assigned to a member of the editorial team. The team invites external referees to peer review the article.

The journal uses double-anonymous peer review for all research articles, which is standard practice in logic and philosophy.

The journal does not allow for authors to suggest the names of peer reviewers for their research. Authors that suggest potential reviewers for their work will have the choices disregarded from any editorial decision making on the article.

Anonymised manuscripts and accompanying figure files will be available for invited reviewers, along with online review guidance on how to undertake the peer review.

According to its double-anonymous peer review policy, Philosophical Logic does not publish peer review reports alongside articles, or the names of the peer reviewers who have undertaken review of the article. Anonymized peer review data is held securely and privately in the journal’s publishing platform for the author to access whenever they choose to.

The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

This journal follows the publisher's guidance on the use of generative AI for submissions and in the journal's publishing workflow.

Authors should read the publisher's AI policy in full and adhere to it before submitting their research to this journal, paying particular attention to acceptable and unacceptable uses of generative AI and advice on whether it is necessary for an 'AI Declaration Statement' to be made with their submission.

Organization and Governance

Philosophical Logic is collectively owned and managed by its Editors.

Philosophical Logic, published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), was launched in 2025 by all of the then Editors and members of the Executive Board of the Journal of Philosophical Logic. Founded in 1972 by Nicholas Rescher, the Journal of Philosophical Logic was originally published by D. Reidel and subsequently by Kluwer and Springer.

Philosophical Logic is governed according to the Philosophical Logic Charter.

Business Practices

Advertising

This journal does not permit any advertising on the journal’s website and will never consider requests of any kind from other parties wishing to advertise in the journal or on its webpages.

Direct Marketing

This journal does not engage in any direct marketing practices.

The publisher, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), employs a Community Engagement Manager who undertakes general marketing activities for the publisher including the promotion of its journals. The Community Engagement Manager does not, however, engage in direct marketing for any OLH journals and this does not affect the editorial decisions of OLH journals in any way.

Other Revenue

Philosophical Logic's long-term publishing and hosting costs are funded by OLH’s Library Partnership Subsidy Model. The journal also accepts Voluntary Author Contributions (VACs) for articles.

None of these streams of revenue affect the editorial decisions of the journal in any way.

Preprint Policy

Submissions to the journal should not be published or under review for publication elsewhere, but authors are free to post a preprint of their submission on the arXiv or other preprint servers.