About
The JPE is committing to publishing high quality articles, symposiums, book symposiums, and book reviews, as described below, and in accordance with our mission statement:
Publishing Platform
The JPE is a small, independent journal that publishes through Google Sites. As such, authors are 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.
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Please note that as of August 2024, the JPE will be focusing primarily on the publication of paper and book symposia.