Call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Unisinos Journal of Philosophy publishes original texts in all areas
of philosophy, such as history of philosophy, ethics, logic,
epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, etc.

We seek to publish clear and concise scholarly works from all
philosophical traditions that advance an original thesis. 

The proposals for Dossiers must be sent to the Editor, including the
Organizers, Theme and Proposal in detail. Mail it to:
helfer@unisinos.br

                                                                      

                                                                       Call for Submissions

Dossier: Faces of Vulnerability — Justice, Human Rights, and Technologies

Submission deadline: October 20, 2025.

Evandro Barbosa, Guest Editor
Federal University of Pelotas - UFPel

Denis Coitinhos, Guest Editor
University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos

Inácio Helfer, Editor-in-Chief
University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos

The Unisinos Journal of Philosophy invites researchers, professors, and professionals in the fields of Philosophy, Law, Social Sciences, Political Science, Technology, and related areas to submit articles for the dossier "Faces of Vulnerability: Justice, Human Rights, and Technologies."
The aim of this dossier is to gather both theoretical and empirical reflections on injustices that raise significant moral challenges concerning vulnerability in risky and challenging contexts.

We encourage the submission of papers related to (but not limited to) the following topics:

  • Vulnerability, theories of justice, and human rights;
  • Vulnerability and the environment;
  • Social and ethical impacts of emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence;
  • Injustices in contexts of scarcity and risk (e.g., health crises, migrations, climate change);
  • The condition of groups in situations of social and economic vulnerability (e.g., refugees, marginalized populations);
  • Intersectionality, care, interdependence, and public policies;
  • Weakened moral agencies and the production of subjectivities in digital contexts.

The journal accepts articles in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Authors must hold a doctoral degree. The deadline for submissions is October 20, 2025. The dossier will be published in Volume 1 of 2026.

Instructions for authors can be found on the Unisinos Journal of Philosophy website.

Submission link: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/filosofia/about/submissions

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Dossier Critique of Violence and Human Rights

Deadline for submissions: December 21, 2025

William Costa Filho, Guest Editor
State University of Ceará – UECE

Márcia Rosane Junges, Guest Editor
University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos – Unisinos

Inácio Helfer, Editor-in-Chief
University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos – Unisinos

The Revista de Filosofia da Unisinos invites researchers, professors, and professionals in the fields of Philosophy and Law to submit articles for the dossier “Critique of Violence and Human Rights”, which aims to gather theoretical reflections within the scope of these themes. We encourage the submission of papers related (but not limited) to the following topics:

  • Human rights: challenges, limits, and possibilities;
  • Critique of violence, biopolitics, and thanatopolitics;
  • Crisis of Western liberal democracies and the resurgence of authoritarianism, especially from the far-right;
  • The application of legal exception as norm and paradigm of government;
  • Critical diagnoses of the present through the categories “critique of violence,” “human rights,” and “state of exception”;
  • Injustices in contexts of scarcity and risk (e.g., health crises, migration, climate change, wars);
  • The condition of groups in situations of social, political, and economic vulnerability (e.g., refugees, marginalized populations, women, LGBTQIAPN+, indigenous peoples, Black communities);
  • Intersectionality, care, interdependence, and public policies;
  • Weakened moral agencies and the production of subjectivities in digital contexts with political purposes.

The journal accepts articles in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. In the case of articles with more than one author, at least one of them must hold a PhD. The final deadline for submissions is December 1, 2025. The dossier will be published in Volume 27, August 2026.

Author guidelines can be found on the Revista de Filosofia da Unisinos website.

Submission link: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/filosofia/about/submissions