Kantian Review
Questions regarding potential submissions or special issues should be addressed to the Editor:
Professor Howard Williams
Email: [email protected]
General enquiries can also be sent to the above email address.
Editorial policy
Kantian Review publishes articles and reviews selected for their quality and relevance to current philosophical debate in relation to Kant's work. In recent times Kant's philosophy has influenced contemporary philosophers over a wide range of issues from epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of science to moral and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, aesthetics and teleology. In these, and other, sectors Kant's views still generate debates about such issues as the character of a responsible metaphysics, epistemological scepticism, moral motivation, the foundations of politics, law and distributive justice both national and international. Kantian Review invites contributions to these debates along with original accounts of Kant's texts, and of the development of his thought in its historical background.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not hold copyright and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.
1. Manuscript preparation
Articles submitted to the Journal should in general be between 6,000 and 10,000 words long, including notes and references, though articles outside these limits may be considered if there is some good reason for their exceptional length or brevity. Articles should be presented in Word format and typed using double spacing with wide margins, unjustified on the right. Pages should be numbered throughout consecutively. All articles should be in English.
Each article should be submitted with an abstract of 100 words. Articles will not be published unless an abstract is provided.
Style
Articles and book reviews will be checked and copy-edited for journal style and UK English. Please adhere to the following conventions:
• -ize endings when given as an alternative to -ise, but 'analyse' retains 's'.
• labour, honour, judgement (unless referring to a legal judgment), sceptical, defence, orientated (not oriented for figurative sense)
• the full form of verbs, e.g. I cannot (not I can't), we do not (not we don't) etc.
• quotations within running text should be in single quote marks (double for quotes within quotes). Punctuation at the end of a quotation should fall outside the closing quote mark unless a complete sentence has been quoted, e.g.
his contempt 'for the masses'.
but,
He stated: 'Kant makes this point clearly.'
Other style points to note:
• Longer quotations of more than 50 words should be displayed, that is, indented and separated from the text with a line space before and after, and with no quote marks before or after.
• Dates should be expressed as 1 January 1998; the 1890s; the nineteenth century (but a sixteenth- century manuscript, a twentieth-century concept); 1888-9; 1914-18 (not 1914-8). Numbers up to ninety-nine should be spelt out in full except in a list of statistics or in percentages (25 per cent).
• Capitalization should be kept to a minimum in the text; for titles, initial capitals should only be used when attached to a personal name (e.g. President Lincoln). References to Kant's 'Critical' or 'pre-Critical' philosophy should use the initial capital 'C'. Capitals for philosophical or historical doctrines should be used only where there is a danger of misunderstanding (e.g. 'enlightenment/ Enlightenment', 'modern/post-Modern').
• Section titles in Kant's, and others', works should be written with capitals for the principal words in the title but should not be enclosed with quotation marks (Doctrine of Virtue/Right).Where reference is made to the argument of some section rather than to the passage itself capitals should not be used ('the transcendental deduction remains thoroughly obscure', but 'the Transcendental Deduction was rewritten in the second edition').
Tables, diagrams and images
Tables and diagrams should generally be included in theWord file. However, any complicated images or diagrams should as far as possible be submitted as high resolution tiff or eps files and their approximate position within the text should be indicated in the Word file. References in the text should take the form 'Table 1' for tables and 'Figure 1' for other forms of illustration.
Charges apply for all colour figures that appear in the print version of the journal. At the time of submission, contributors should clearly state whether their figures should appear in colour in the online version only, or whether they should appear in colour online and in the print version. There is no charge for including colour figures in the online version of the journal. If you request colour figures in the printed version, you will be contacted by CCC-Rightslink who are acting on our behalf to collect Author Charges. Please follow their instructions in order to avoid any delay in the publication of your article.
Notes
Endnotes are used. The journal style does not cater for footnotes. Notes should be supplied in double- spacing and separately from the text, at the end of the article, and notes should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals.
References
Contributors should use the author-date system (‘Harvard system’) with a list of works cited at the end of the article under the heading 'References'. The following style should be used:
In text: (Allison 1983: 201)
In Allison (1983: 201)
In reference section at the end of the article
Works cited should be set out in alphabetical and chronological order in the following format:
Allison, Henry E. (1983) Kant's Transcendental Idealism. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Korsgaard, Christine M. (1989a) ‘Morality as freedom’. In Yirmiahu Yovel (ed.), Kant's Practical Philosophy Reconsidered (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers), pp. 23-48.
Matthews, H. E. (1969) ‘Strawson on transcendental idealism’. Philosophical Quarterly, 19, 204-20.
Please note that where a passage is cited reference to a page, or sequence of pages, should always be given.
References to Kant’s works
All references to Kant's works should use the author-date system for the translation/edition used. For the Critique of Pure Reason the A (first edition) and/or B (second edition) pagination will be sufficient. For other Kant works page references to the Akademie edition by volume and page number should be added prefaced by an abbreviation for the title of the work. References to the Akademie edition should be given by volume and page number in the form 'V: pp' (e.g. 5: 378) without any prefix such as 'Ak.' or 'AA'. Where the translation/edition being used carries the pagination of the Akademie edition, no further pagination should normally be cited. For example, rather than a reference of the form ‘(Kant 2004: 57; MM, 4: 357)’, it would in that case suffice to cite ‘(MM, 4: 357)’.
Abbreviations used for the titles of Kant's works, and translations/editions used, should be made clear in the first relevant endnote.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Copyrighted material
If your article contains any material in which you do not own copyright, including figures, charts, tables, photographs or excerpts of text, please see the seeking permission to use copyrighted material page for instruction.
Publishing ethics
Please refer to the publishing ethics page while preparing your materials for submission to ensure you comply with the relevant policies.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
ORCID
We encourage authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information. If you don’t already have an iD, you can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Author Hub
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Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools
We acknowledge the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the research and writing processes. To ensure transparency, we expect any such use to be declared and described fully to readers, and to comply with our plagiarism policy and best practices regarding citation and acknowledgements. We do not consider artificial intelligence (AI) tools to meet the accountability requirements of authorship, and therefore generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and similar should not be listed as an author on any submitted content.
In particular, any use of an AI tool:
- to generate images within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, and declared clearly in the image caption(s)
- to generate text within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, include appropriate and valid references and citations, and be declared in the manuscript’s Acknowledgements.
- to analyse or extract insights from data or other materials, for example through the use of text and data mining, should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, including details and appropriate citation of any dataset(s) or other material analysed in all relevant and appropriate areas of the manuscript
- must not present ideas, words, data, or other material produced by third parties without appropriate acknowledgement or permission
Descriptions of AI processes used should include at minimum the version of the tool/algorithm used, where it can be accessed, any proprietary information relevant to the use of the tool/algorithm, any modifications of the tool made by the researchers (such as the addition of data to a tool’s public corpus), and the date(s) it was used for the purpose(s) described. Any relevant competing interests or potential bias arising as a consequence of the tool/algorithm’s use should be transparently declared and may be discussed in the article.