Contributions to the journal are invited in the form of articles, book reviews, and comments on articles published in the area of philosophy. Contributions should be typed in double space on one side of A-4 size paper and to be sent in CD or as an attachment to the e-mail of Editor-in-Chief/Head of the Department of Philosophy at [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected] For more details, contributors are requested to click on the following Link

Authors are requested to submit contributions in Microsoft Word documents or in rich text format, not in PDF or other formats unless specifically asked. If submission through email is not possible, please send two hard copies of the contribution/paper and other materials, along with a disk.

To allow blind refereeing, please ensure that your contribution/manuscript is anonymous by including your name, institutional address, contact details and self-identifying references in a separate file. A full postal address for editorial correspondence should also be given. A summary of around 200 words, and a list of four or five ‘key words’ should be provided for the use of abstracting services. Footnotes, which will be printed at the end of the article, should be numbered consecutively through the text, and presented on a separate sheet of paper, typed with double spacing. Bibliographic citations in the text or notes should include the author’s last name and the title, year and place of publication, and include a page reference.

Philosophical Papers: Journal of the Department of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed refereed journal for which the identity of the reviewer and the contributors/authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. This ensures the philosophical content of the manuscript/research is judged fairly, keeping bias out of equation. Thus, the authors and the reviewers are protected against any kind of criticism.

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The Department of Philosophy, University of North Bengal shall be the copyright owner of all the published materials. Apart from the fair dealing for the purposes of research, private study and criticism, no part of the journal may be copied, adapted, abridged, translated, stored in any retrieval system, computer system, photographic or other system or reproduced in any form by any means whether electronic, mechanical, digital, optical, photographic, or otherwise prior written permissions from the Chief-Editor/ Co-editor/publisher.

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• The Contribution/Manuscript /Articles/Research Papers/Book Reviews in Philosophical Papers: Journal of the Department of Philosophy
  • i. should be original, innovative and philosophically significant,
  • ii. should have some contribution to the society
  • iii. should not have been already published elsewhere, and
  • iv. should not be submitted elsewhere for publication
• 2. Contributors/Authors are required to certify that the articles sent by them are within the permissible limits of plagiarism as per the 2018 norms of UGC.
• 3. Contribution/Manuscript /Articles/Research Papers/Book Reviews will go through a peer review process and the final selection will be made as per the remarks of the evaluators.
• 4. By submitting Contribution/Manuscript/Articles/Research Papers/Book Reviews to Philosophical Papers: Journal of the Department of Philosophy the author(s) agree to assign exclusive copyright in the work to Department of Philosophy, University of North Bengal and permit the submissions for open access data base under the Copyright Act.
• 5. No payment is charged by the publisher from the authors for publication of their articles in Philosophical Papers: Journal of the Department of Philosophy.
• 6. In case of any legal dispute, the matter should be filed within the territorial jurisdiction as per Law and justice.
• 7. The opinion expressed in the Contribution/Manuscript/Articles/Research Papers/Book Reviews is the personal opinion of the author.
• 8. The Chief-Editor/ Co-editor(s) reserve the right to edit the submissions for publication without permission from the author.
• 9. Author/s shall be held responsible for breach of UGC Norms regarding plagiarism. UGC/University Notification issued on plagiarism from time to time shall be binding to the Contributors/Author(s).
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