Preparing Philosophy Articles for Publication

A scientific article on philosophy has its own characteristics, which must be taken into account when preparing it. Firstly, these are the problems of the scientific style of the article, which must correspond to the philosophical character. Secondly, special attention is paid to working with literary sources, because they are the ones that are being studied. Thirdly, when using literary sources, one should not forget about the existence of “Anti-plagiarism”, in accordance with the requirements of which, the editors of any publication sets the permissible percentage of borrowing someone else’s text.

Scientific style of the article

Unlike other areas of knowledge, philosophy differs not only in the way of thinking, but also in the style of presenting its reasoning and conclusions. To answer the question: how to write an article on philosophy, you should first study this style and language. It is best to start by publishing in a collection of philosophical articles published by the educational or scientific institution where the young researchers were trained. In this case, they will be treated as learners without strict criticism of the reviewers. The same can be said about the publication of an article in the proceedings of conferences, with the advantage that participation in the conference acquires the practice of public scientific presentations and discussions.

You can master the scientific style of writing philosophical articles only by studying the works of foreign and domestic classics of philosophy. And you need to start with the history of philosophy. Although the writing styles of the classics can be very different from each other, the philosophical nature of their work is not in doubt by anyone, even by beginners.

The next step in the creative development of a young scientist is to publish an article on philosophy in scientific journals and collections of the RSCI, which will be available not only to a wider readership, but will also take part in the formation of the author’s citation index. However, it should be remembered that now there are more serious requirements for articles published in RSCI journals than a few years ago. At this stage of the growth of scientific qualifications, the completion of work on the formation of a scientific style of presentation of philosophical texts is expected.

Literary sources

Literary sources are the main material for the scientific work of a philosopher. This is already a metascientific level of abstract thought, operating with philosophical categories and forming philosophical thinking. It is at this level that the author should go if he wants to publish his articles in the HAC , Scopus or Web of Science journals. Writing an article requires fluency in the categorical apparatus. Very often, authors give in to the desire to “unquote” the original text, realizing that expressing the same classic idea in their own words is a difficult, almost unbearable task. But then it is very difficult to avoid problems with plagiarism, given the growing sophistication of programs for its detection.

In this case, it can be advised to read critical and commentary literature along with the works of the classics, gaining the necessary vocabulary. Reading scientific literature in foreign languages, and primarily in English, can be very helpful in this regard. This will not only develop abstract thinking, but will also provide wonderful examples of scientific writing style.

When publishing an article by the Higher Attestation Commission on philosophy, one should carefully follow the specialty codes of the journal. In addition to purely philosophical specialties, such as the theory of knowledge, ontology, the history of philosophy and others, there are many related scientific research areas related to the philosophical problems of specific scientific knowledge, especially in the field of mathematics, physics, biology and other sciences. But there may be some confusion here. For example, the philosophical problems of biological evolution can be attributed to both biology and philosophy.

In total, there are 45 VAK journals on philosophy. And the most popular philosophical specialties currently include the following:

1. History of philosophy;
2. Social philosophy;
3. Philosophy and methodology of science;
4. General philosophical problems;
5. Ethics;
6. Philosophy of religion and atheism.

There is no such strict division in foreign journals, and therefore articles published in them are taken into account by the Higher Attestation Commission based on their title and content. So the freedom of choice for authors is much greater here. The same applies to the materials of foreign scientific conferences indexed in these leading citation databases, where a scientific article on philosophy may well be published.

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