Philosophia Scientiæ is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original works in the fields of epistemology, the history and philosophy of sciences and in analytical philosophy. It is open to works from all scientific disciplines and notably publishes studies on logic, mathematics and physics. One of the journal's strong themes is German or Franco-German contributions to epistemology and the history of sciences.

The journal was founded in 1996 by Gerhard Heinzmann and is published by the Laboratoire d’Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie – Archives Henri-Poincaré with the support of the CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences, the University of Lorraine (Publication Director: Hélène Boulanger, President of Université de Lorraine).

A print and online publication

Three issues per year of Philosophia Scientiæ are printed by the Kimé publishing house in Paris. It is also published online in full open access by OpenEdition, Cairn (back issues on Numdam).

Abstracting and Indexing

Philosophia Scientiæ is indexed in several international databases: DOAJ, Philosopher's Index, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH, MathSciNet, l'International Philosophical Bibliography,  ERIH Plus, Journal Base (CNRS), Base (Bielefield Academic Search Engine), EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek), Google Scholar, Worldcat, Isidore, Journal ToCs.

Thematic dossiers

Thematic dossiers make up the majority of the issues of Philosophia Scientiæ. Guest editors have the scientific responsibility for coordinating these dossiers which consist of articles selected using double-blind peer reviewing following a call for contributions.

If you wish to edit a thematic dossier, please contact the journal at this address phscientiae-redac@univ-lorraine.fr to submit your project to the Editorial Board.

Submitting articles for Varia

Philosophia Scientiæ also publishes varied articles in its "Varia" section.

Original articles can be submitted in French, German or English. They should be no longer than 50,000 characters (including spaces, abstracts, notes and bibliography). The articles are evaluated using double-blind peer reviewing. The journal endeavours to keep the evaluation procedure to three months and information on how it works can be found at:

http://philosophiascientiae.revues.org/449.

Submission via the journal's OJS platform: https://ojs-poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/index.php/philosophiascientiae/.

The Author

All authors receive a complimentary copy of the issue containing their contribution as well as a digital version of their article in PDF format.

The author signs an non-exclusive property rights transfer contract but retains his/her distribution rights.

Authors can self-archive a version (including the publisher's PDF-version) of their contribution right after print publication on their own institutional repository or open archives or on their personal website.

Scientific Integrity

All new submissions to Philosophia Scientiæ are automatically checked for plagiarism using compilatio.net, a plagiarism checker.

Supports

Philosophia Scientiæ is published with the support of The CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences and the Université de Lorraine.

The journal was the winner of a National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) project (2021-2023) and this enabled it to move immediately to full open access.