Philosophie.ch is a Magazine
For many years now, the editorial team of our portal has sought to convince people - professional and non-professional philosophers, beginners and experts, in and outside Switzerland - to contribute original articles, suitable for and of interest to a wider public, and to allow for the republication of such material under a CC-licence.
In the past, such procurement activities were often linked to Anja Leser's "thematic dossiers" (in German) and the "dossiers thématiques", written by Emily Bretton in French. Thus were created topical series, such as "Philosophie im Alltag", "Zukunft", "Gesundheit / Santé", "Heimat", "Mensch und Natur" and "Liebe".
In the course of the portal's relaunch during the years 2022-23, we made this structure more open and more flexible, introducing focus areas (Themenschwerpunkte, axes thématiques, focus tematiche), for which a so-called "area editor" is responsible. Everyone is thus invited to participate in the quest for high-quality content for the portal.
Independently of such focussed procurement, we remain open for any contribution of philosophical interest that may be of interest to our users:
To submit an article for publication, simply log in with your profile and click on the pencil in the upper right corner of your screen.
Click here for a list of portal articles in chronological order.
Real articles, real publications
Original content published on the portal is real publication - dated, attributed and with an official DOI (digital object identifier), registered with CrossRef and guaranteeing the persistent availability at the registered URL. Portal articles can be cited as follows:
- Blum, Philipp 2025, "QS ranking of philosophy departments", Philosophie.ch, dated 2025-03-13, URL: https://www.philosophie.ch/2025-03-13-blum
We believe that academic philosophy is in need of a greater variety of outlets for its productions, in addition to the usual formats of the scientific research article and the scholarly monograph. By encouraging a variety of formats (including audio, video and graphic contributions), the portal aims to help with the diversification of research outputs for academic, as well as non-academic, philosophy as well.
In addition to portal articles, we also offer the Swiss Philosophical Preprint Series, an OA archive for drafts, presentations, and everything else. For SPPS pieces, we also register DOIs - this protects them from plagiarism and makes them citable.
Republications under a Creative Commons Licence
In addition to original content, for which the association Philosophie.ch counts as publisher and for which we register a DOI, we also aim at republishing content appeared elsewhere and in other forms, to make it more widely available.
Philosophical work done within universities, qualification papers such as proseminar and seminar papers, BA and MA thesis, even dissertations often remain hidden or unavailable. Republishing them on the portal allows others to learn from your work and protects it from plagiarism:
In collaboration with other media outlets, such as Republik, Das Lamm and XX, we republish from time to time articles that we find deserve a broader audience and might be of interest to the users of the portal.
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