Etica-mente is also a philosophical yearly academic journal with ISSN 2724-3745, enlisted as Scientific Journal by ANVUR for Area 11 (Moral Philosophy). The official name of the journal is Etica-mente. L’annuario. The journal is Open Access, the articles are published under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license and authors retain their rights on their contributions.
The scope and aim of the journal is to explore and discuss the crucial philosophical issues possibly in the light of current and pressing issues, stemming from technology, art, politics, and related to core themes in the field of philosophy, particularly ethics and philosophical anthropology.
The journal calls for papers on specific topics and also invites submissions on any topics of the author’s choice. Accepted languages are Italian, English, Spanish, French. Please, see the current CFP and deadlines for the next upcoming issue.
CFP 2025 • TOPIC: CARE • DEADLINE: 15 DEC 2025
The paper should focus on any philosophical issues related to the concept of care, and as such, it invites contributions from several philosophical fields. Submissions might focus on care as a fundamental concept in ethics, drawing on perspectives such as the ethics of responsibility (e.g., Lévinas, Jonas, Weil), the notion of solicitude as the basis of ethics (e.g., Ricoeur), care ethics (e.g., Gilligan, Tronto), or reflections on care within gender studies (e.g., Butler). Topics of interest might also include the concept of care within the field of environmental ethics. The concept of care might be discussed within the framework of social ethics: in this sense, meaningful articulations might concern the care of the self, of the others, and of the surrounding world. Care might further be explored as an ontological or existential category: the distinction between authentic and inauthentic care; authentic care as the fundamental structure of human existence (e.g., the concept of Sorge in Heidegger), or as the foundation of authentic relations with the Other (e.g., Sartre, Heidegger, Foucault, Lévinas, Buber, Ortega y Gasset, Nussbaum). The concept of care might be addressed from the perspective of philosophical anthropology (e.g., Scheler, Gehlen, Plessner, Ortega y Gasset) or aesthetics (e.g., Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, Merleau-Ponty, Byung-Chul Han). The theme can also be approached through bioethical or biopolitical frameworks, analysing the distinctions between genuine care, overprotection, and control (e.g., Foucault). Contributions might focus on the role of digital technologies in relation to specific fields, such as medical care practices (e.g., Turkle, Zuboff, Grimm, Floridi, Lupton, Crawford), or data protection in the context of technological innovation (e.g., the AI Act), or consider law not only as a system of coercive norms, but as an expression of care for vulnerability, particularly with regard to marginalized or fragile populations (e.g., minors, the elderly, people with disabilities, the ill, incarcerated individuals, and migrants). Papers might highlight the role of care in educational or psychological dimensions: in child development as basis for an integrated Self (e.g., Winnicott, Rogers, Bowlby, Klein), in educational and cognitive contexts (e.g., Montessori, Piaget), or through interpretations offered by depth psychology (e.g., Jung, Hillman). Further lines of inquiry might emerge from the Renaissance and early modern philosophy, such as philosophies of nature (e.g., Ficino, Bruno) or alchemical medicine (e.g., Paracelsus, Bruno, Fludd). Papers might reflect on the care of the body and soul through the philosophy of religion, in western or non-western traditions.
The proposal should offer a philosophical analysis about the topic and should not exceed the length of 30,000 characters, including spaces, abstract and references. Please, follow the editorial formatting style guidelines on our website before submitting a proposal.
Etica-mente is an Open Access journal, with double blind peer review and associates a DOI to each article. The articles are distributed under the Creative Common license (CC BY 4.0).
The submission should be prepared for blind review in 3 files and be sent to [email protected]:
1) anonymous paper
2) abstract (max 100 words)
3) author’s biographical-academic and contact information.
For more details, please feel free to contact the editorial board at [email protected].
FORMATTING STYLE
File
.doc or .docx
Font
12, Times New Roman
Paragraph
Justified, no tabs, line spacing 1
Length
30,000 characters, spaces included – abstract and references included (10,000 for reviews)
100 words for the abstract (in English only)
5 keywords (in English only), separated by a comma
Submissions must comply with the blind review, so 3 files must be submitted:
1) anonymous paper
2) abstract
3) author’s bio-academic and contact information
QUOTATIONS
The system is author-date:
(Last name, year, page)
In case of 2 authors:
Last name 1, Last Name 2, year, page)
In case of 3 or more authors
(Last name 1 et al., year, page)
Use quotation marks “…”, not «…». Within quotations use single marks ‘…’.
It is recommended to separate the paper into paragraphs, with number and title. Footnotes must be strictly limited.
REFERENCES
References must be placed at the end of the paper and following these rules:
• For books:
Last name, N. Year. Title. Place: Publisher
For editions different from the first one:
Last name, N. Year of the first edition. Title. Place: Publisher, Year of the used edition.
For Italian translations:
Last name, N. Year of the first edition. Original title. Place: Publisher (transl., Title. Place: Publisher, Year).
• For articles in journals, magazines, newspapers:
Last name, N. Year. “Title”. Journal, volume/issue, pages
Last name, N. Year. “Title”. Newspaper, date
• For essays in books:
Last name, N. Year. Title of the essay. In N. Last name (ed.), Title of the book. Place: Publisher, pages
In case of more books from the same author and the same year add a progressive letter after the year:
Last name, N. Yeara. Title. Place: Publisher
Last name, N. Yearb. Title. Place: Publisher
SPACES AND PUNCTUATION
One space only between words. One space after punctuation, never before. No spaces within brackets. No spaces in numbers and dates (eg. 15-16, 2005-2006).
ACRONYMS
No dots, eg. BBC, USA, NATO, DC, PCI.
ITALICS
Italics must be used for:
1) Titles of works of any kind;
2) For any foreign or technical term.
For terms from non-Latin alphabets, use transliterated Latin alphabet.
