Philosophy & Theory in Biology (P&TB) is a new peer-reviewed open-access online journal to be launched in the Fall of 2009, and it aims to bring together philosophers of science and theoretically inclined biologists in order to interact across disciplinary boundaries. The goal of this interaction is to foster a broader conception of what it means to do “theory” in science and philosophically analyze the sciences, in order to benefit both research communities.
P&TB is for a mixed audience of philosophers of science and biologists, and therefore we seek papers that are methodologically diverse, including but not limited to standard philosophy of biology analyses of concepts or research programs and ‘theoretical’ papers by biologists.
P&TB also publishes select, in-depth reviews and trend articles pertinent to theoretical biology and philosophy of biology in order to stimulate discussion on topics with implications for both biologists and philosophers.
P&TB strives to maintain the highest standards of scholarship while simultaneously making its papers available at no cost to the academic community, independent scholars, and the public at large. P&TB is published only online, a choice that springs from the advantages offered by new technologies and from a desire to reduce publication and environmental costs.
The editorial board consists of a highly distinguished group of philosophers and biologists, including: Alex Badyaev (University of Arizona), John Beatty (University of British Columbia), Carol Cleland (University of Colorado), Deborah Gordon (Stanford University), Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney), Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University), David Jablonski (University of Chicago), Elizabeth Lloyd (Indiana University), Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark College), Samir Okasha (University of Bristol), Anya Plutynski (University of Utah), Sean Rice (Texas Tech University), Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin), Mike Wade (Indiana University), Günter Wagner (Yale University) and Mary Jane West-Eberhard (Smithsonian Institution, Panama).
Instruction for authors can be downloaded on the provisional web site of the journal. Further information can be obtained by writing an email to editors@philosophyandtheoryinbiology.org.
Sincerely, the Editors
Massimo Pigliucci (City University of New York)
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)
Alan Love (University of Minnesota)
Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University)
