Volume 53.4 of Philosophia has just been published! The issue includes a symposium on N. Van Leeuwen's book Religion as Make-Believe, with essays by J. Weinberg & A. Meskin, E. Sullivan-Bissett, and J. Mugg, with replies by Van Leeuwen.

The Eastern APA is in full swing, and although I'm unable to attend, our publisher Emily Edwards is there and shared this image of the latest issue of Philosophia. If you're at the conference, I hope you'll stop by the book exhibit to check it out, and to introduce yourself to Emily!

Some philosophers have argued that procreation may be immoral. In 'The morality of having children: Procreation as a duty to help others', Elke Elisabeth Schmidt argues on the contrary that there's a pro tanto duty to procreate. Check it out at doi.org/10.1007/s114...

Is racism not just wrong, but wrong by definition? In an article just out on Philosophia's Early View, Francois Jaquet argues it is not; instead the wrongness of racism is a substantive moral fact. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1007/s114....

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In this issue you'll also find innovative essays in metaphysics, (including an exchange between Y. Wang and D. Ehring on Campbellian trope nominalism, and an article by M. Zamani on truthmaking & grounding), and on phil of religion (incl. an essay on fine-tuning and omniscience by G. McLauchlin)

Welcome to Issue 3 of Vol. 53 of Philosophia. In it you'll find a symposium on J. Lemos' book, Free Will's Value: Criminal Justice, Pride, and Love, with critical essays by N. Epstein, G. Caruso, S. Smilansky, M. Sekatskaya, D. Pereboom, and replies by Lemos.

This issue contains a fascinating symposium on M. Pelczar's book, Phenomenalism, as well as articles on the ethics of routine smartphone use; Dreyfus and embodied cognition; Ibn Sina on modality; and an argument that *all* reasoning is defeasible, among many others. Enjoy!

Issue 2 of volume 53 of Philosophia has just dropped! Find it here: link.springer.com/journal/1140...

I'm thrilled to report that Issue 1 of Volume 53 of Philosophia has now been published, including an Author Meets Critics symposium on Karen Simecek's book, Philosophy of Lyric Voice. Enjoy! link.springer.com/journal/1140...

Greetings from Brisbane! Here's a pic with a recent issue of Philosophia hanging with friends at the display table at the International Pragmatics Association meeting.

Just published in the Early View section of Philosophia: Samuel Walker Bennett's 'The ethical case against routine smartphone use: Its tendency to foster morally problematic dispositions.' (doi.org/10.1007/s114...) Read at your peril!

I am pleased to share the Editorial Letter inaugurating Vol. 53 of Philosophia: doi.org/10.1007/s114...

Dr. Kiverstein will receive a monetary award from Springer Nature, as well as free access to Philosophia's contents for a full year. Our congratulations and thanks to Dr. Kiverstein for his superb contribution to Philosophia's goal of publishing groundbreaking research!

Dr. Kiverstein provided detailed and insightful comments on several drafts of a submission to Philosophia. The submission's authors stressed their appreciation of this referee's charitable and constructive suggestions.

I'd delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2025 Philosophia Referee Award is Dr. Julian Kiverstein, Asst. Professor of Neurophilosophy in the Institute of Language, Logic, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.

I'm thrilled to share that issue #5 of volume 52 of Philosophia has just been published. Find it here: link.springer.com/journal/1140...

Welcome to Philosophia, A Global Journal of Philosophy. Soon we will be announcing the winner of the 2025 Philosophia Referee's Award!