Aim and Scope

Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía was founded in July of 1993. Since then, it has been and crucial part of the intellectual life of the Department of Philosophy of the School of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The journal’s main themes include aesthetics, ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, philosophy in Mexico and Latin America, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, and other themes related to philosophical analysis. It aims to publish and support philosophical research in Spanish-speaking countries, in all fields and media, including that of authors from different regions.  

 

 

Journal Sections

Research Articles

This section contains innovative, theoretically, and methodologically solid unpublished articles written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. The Editorial Committee first revises all submissions and, if accepted, the texts are then subjected to a double-blind peer-review.

 

Translations

This section contains translations of relevant texts within the field of Philosophical Studies.  All translations must be original, and authors must provide any permits required for their publication.

 

Reviews and Notes

This section includes critical reviews on recent literary texts that were published less than five years ago. Reviews must expose and present the main arguments presented in the book; they may be basic descriptions of the text, informative, or critical reviews, which must include an analysis of the ideas exposed in the book. Notes are discussions that revolve around a particular issue or academic conversation. Members of the Editorial Committee revise all reviews and Notes before publication.

 

 

Languages

Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía accepts texts written in Spanish and English.

 

 

Publication Frequency

Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía is published twice a year, the first 5 days of June and December.

 

 

Editorial and Review Process

Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía uses Open Journal Systems 3 (OJS3), an open-source software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals developed and financed by the Public Knowledge Project and subjected to a GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). All contributions to the journal are received and managed through this platform. Throughout the editorial process, every submission is analyzed with specialized software that detects plagiarism.

 

The journal uses a double-blind peer review system. Each submission is reviewed by two external specialists who must fill out an evaluation form in the OJS platform. Before evaluation, reviewers must clearly state that there is no conflict of interest concerning the submission. By "conflict of interest," we mean any professional, financial, or personal relationship that may affect the outcome of the review process.

 

On average, each issue takes six months to be completed, from the date the submissions period ends to the date of publication. Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía is a biannual publication issued every June and December. For an article to be published in June, authors must submit all necessary documentation by  December 15 of the previous year. In order to publish in December, submissions must be received by June 15 of the ongoing year.

 

 

Copyright

Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía acknowledges and respects the authors’ ownership rights. To authorize the review, publication, reproduction, and distribution of any of the accepted submissions, for academic purposes and in non-commercial settings, authors must transfer the ownership rights of their submission to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). For this reason, once their submission is accepted, authors must sign a letter transferring their ownership rights to the University. Authors may perform other non-exclusive contractual agreements for the distribution of their work and make it available elsewhere (like other journals, databases, or personal webpages), as long as they explicitly credit the original publication and, whenever possible, include a link to the publication contained in Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía.

 

 

Access and Distribution Policies

Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía is an Open Access publication. All of the publications of the journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) that allows anyone to copy, distribute, and communicate any of the texts published here provided that this is done free of charge, in educational and other non-commercial settings, for non-commercial purposes, and that the source is adequately credited. Every commercial and derivative reproduction of a text published in Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía requires a permit. These permits should be requested via email to revista.theoria@filos.unam.mx. Authors should provide a complete reference to the material they intend to use (volume, issue, year, author, title, DOI, page numbers), along with the reproduction purposes. If the request is accepted, correspondent credits will have to be published in the replicated text.

 

 

 

Preservation Policy

Under the teaching, research, and cultural promotion principles established in the Organic Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the School of Philosophy and Literature’s research journals carry out various processes to guarantee free and permanent access to all digital documents across time and technological changes. For this reason, all the digital documents published in Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía are deposited in the institutional repository Athenea Digital FFyL, which is linked to the National Repository of Mexico through the CONACyT Institutional Repositories Project with number 296202.

 

All articles published in Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía include a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) as a uniform resource identifier (URI), which guarantees permanent access to documents and allows their interoperability with other platforms. In addition, to distinguish the research activities of specialists with similar or identical names, authors must provide an Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID iD), an open, unique, and persistent global identifier for researchers, which provides a clear method for linking research activities and products from these identifiers.

 

 

Open and Free Access

Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía is an academic journal sponsored by the School of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and financed through public funds. Submitting, reviewing, and publishing articles is free of charge for authors. No fees are charged to access any of the materials of the journal.

 

 

Good Practices Guide 

Responsibilities of the editorial committee

1. To pre-select the works that will be submitted to review before publication.
2. To establish the criteria for the double-blind peer-review process.
3. To justify any controversies (whether it be between authors, editors, or reviewers) resulting from the double-blind peer-review process.
4. The decision to publish an article should always be supported by academic evidence and based on the content of the text, its originality, clarity, and relevance within the journal’s scope. 
5. Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía will only publish original philosophical papers in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
6. To evaluate all manuscripts regardless of the author’s gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, or political inclinations.

 

 Responsibilities of the editorial director

1. To guarantee the journal’s quality, ensuring that the publications adhere to the utmost academic and scientific guidelines.
2. To publish any corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies if necessary.
3. To guarantee the anonymity of the double-blind peer-review process.
4. To inform authors on all stages of the editorial process, the reviews’ results, and any resolutions made by the Editorial Committee.
5. Not to divulge any information contained within the manuscripts to anyone except authors and reviewers.
6. Not to use any original material without the author’s explicit and written consent. Any ideas and privileged information that results from the review process will remain confidential and must not be used for the personal gain of the editorial director.
7. To ensure all decisions are fair and impartial, guaranteeing the transparency and fairness of the review process.

 

Responsibilities of the authors

1. Any submissions to Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofíapresupposes the author’s acceptance of the review process’s criteria and the journal’s policies and guidelines.
2. Authors must guarantee the full authorship of the submitted material according to the journal’s Ethics Code. Authors must certify that the text has not been previously published elsewhere and has not been simultaneously submitted to any other journal or publication.
3. To be considered original, texts must not be previously published in other journals as articles, memoirs, or chapters of books. All citations and fragments of other texts within the manuscripts must be properly cited.
4. These terms apply to all published materials in any format (digital or print).
5. Submissions must adhere to the “Author Guidelines” established by the Editorial Committee.
6. Authors must remove any personal information (name, contact information, affiliation, etc.) within the body of the text and in the bibliographical references. Furthermore, they must adhere to the double-blind peer review process to guarantee anonymity.
7. Authors must ensure they have full authorship of the manuscripts and, if they have used the work of others, properly cite their sources. Plagiarism is unacceptable and punishable. Plagiarised texts will be removed from the journal, and the author will not be allowed to make any other submissions.
8. Authors must ensure all co-authors are mentioned in the manuscript and that they have accepted and approved the texts before publication.
9. Authors must clarify in the manuscripts if they received any public or private funding for their research.
10. Authors must notify of any errors or inaccuracies in the publications. They are responsible for immediately informing the editorial director and editorial team and collaborating to correct the text.

 

Responsibilities of the reviewers

1. Reviewers must agree to maintain the confidentiality of the information contained in and related to the manuscripts.
2. Reviewers must have access to the criteria and guidelines established in the evaluation format provided by the journal.
3. Reviewers must notify their decision to review a text (or not) within a week of being notified.
4. All manuscripts must be considered confidential documents.
5. Reviewers must be objective and impartially throughout the review process. They must always justify their decisions and comments and be willing to explain, clarify, and rectify the content of their review if necessary. Personal statements are not appropriate in the context of an academic assessment.
6. Reviewers agree not to use or profit from any of the ideas contained in the manuscripts.