Synthesis (journal)
| Synthesis: an International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
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| description | philosophical journal |
| Area of Expertise | Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Methodology |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Jumper |
| First edition | 1936 – today |
| Frequency of publication | 18 times a year |
| Editor-in-chief | Otávio Bueno , Vincent F. Hendricks , Wiebe van der Hoek and Gila Sher |
| editor | Editorial Board |
| Web link | Website |
| Article archive | JSTOR |
| ISSN (print) | 0039-7857 |
| ISSN (online) | 1573-0964 |
| CODEN | SYNTA |
The journal Synthesis is a regularly published philosophical journal. The current editors are Otávio Bueno , Vincent F. Hendricks , Wiebe van der Hoek and Gila Sher . Honorary editor is Jaakko Hintikka , the advisory board includes logicians Johan van Benthem and Peter Gärdenfors .
Range of topics
As the subtitle “an International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science” indicates, Synthesis primarily publishes works in the fields of epistemology , methodology and philosophy of science . The focus is on methodological problems in the natural sciences such as induction , probability , causality theory , statistics and formal logic , but also in linguistics and ethics .
The special section Knowledge, Rationality and Action contains research reports and discussions on the formal explanation of rational action.
Notable publications
Over time, a number of essays have appeared in synthesis that decisively determined or even opened the discussion in their subject area, including:
- “Carnap and logical truth” (1960) - Willard Van Orman Quine
- “Truth and meaning” (1967) - Donald Davidson
- “Pragmatics” (1970) - Robert Stalnaker
- “Proper names and identifying descriptions” (1970) - Keith Donnellan
- “Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness” (1971) - Thomas Nagel
- “Belief and the basis of meaning” (1974) - Donald Davidson
- “Special sciences (or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis)” (1974) - Jerry Fodor
- “Meaning as Functional Classification” (1974) - Wilfrid Sellars
- "Vagueness, truth and logic" (1975) - Kit Fine
- “The importance of what we care about” (1982) - Harry Frankfurt
Referencing
The impact factor in 2015 was 0.723, which placed the journal in 15th place out of a total of 60 scientific journals listed in the " History and Philosophy of Science " category. The contents of synthesis are - e.g. Partly with abstracts - recorded in the following bibliographies:
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See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ "A special section on Knowledge, Rationality and Action offers a platform for researchers interested in a formal approach to the process comprising rational behavior, from gathering and representing information, through reasoning and decision making to acting." ( Description on the publisher's website.)
- ↑ Journal Citation Reports 2015. Accessed September 23, 2016.