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Author Guidelines

The ideal length of an accepted article is around 8000 words, excluding references but including footnotes. Please keep footnotes to an absolute minimum.

We prefer the final submission not to have any abbreviations. 

The submitted document should be a Word file (.doc or .docx). Please include sections (introductions and conclusion) and mark them appropriately in Word using the "syles pane".

Philosophy of AI follows APA Style (7th edition). https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-guide.pdf 

In-text citations: The author-date system should be used once accepted. Submissions with non-APA style citations are accepted.

For example: (Anscombe, 1958, p. 13; Lewis, 1980, pp. 264–270)

Authors are required to render their in-text citations as hyperlinks to the list of references. The easiest way to do this is to use a citation manager.

Authors are required to use a citation manager (Zotero works especially well in our case) before finalizing their final revised submission. 

A reference list will be created in the production process and is hence not needed in the manuscript (it will be deleted during the transformation process of the text). All metadata is included in the Zotero citations. Please make sure that the metadata in Zotero is correct.

Please avoid complicated features like auto-numbering of examples and sections. Keep the formatting of the paper as simple as possible. The text format (font style, font size, line spacing) is irrelevant due to the automatic transformation of the text, so feel free to use whatever you prefer. 

If you have graphics or tables, please insert them into the text (including captions). To keep production as simple as possible, please don't overuse tables. 

Authors are discouraged from making extensive use of footnotes. No Endnotes. Keep bullet points to a minimum. 

Examples:

  • Anscombe, G. (1958). Modern Moral Philosophy. Philosophy, 33(124), 1–19.
  • Arendt, H. (1977). Public Rights and Private Interests. In Michael Mooney and Florian Stuber (Eds.), Small Comforts for Hard Times: Humanists on Public Policy (103–108). Columbia University Press.
  • Lewis, D. (1986). A Subjectivist’s Guide to Objective Chance. In David K. Lewis (Ed.), Philosophical Papers (Vol. 2, 83–113). (Reprinted from Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Vol. 2, 263–293, by Richard C. Jeffrey, Ed., 1980, University of Berkeley Press).
  • Whitehead, A. & Russell, B. (1963). Principia Mathematica (2nd ed., reprint, Vol. 2). Cambridge University Press.

British English or American English may be used, but American English is preferred. 

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The authors have given 3-5 names of potential reviewers.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. The production team requires Zotero as a reference manager to speed up the production of the article.

Special Issue "Language and AI"

In recent years, stunning breakthroughs in AI have emerged in systems whose primary interaction with human users is verbal: These include chatbots and Large Language Models (LLMs). The success of such systems raises questions about how we should conceptualize their communicative proficiency. Do they perform speech acts in any of the established uses of that notion found in pragmatics and the philosophy of language, or does their communicative proficiency fall below those standards? If so, is that an in-principle difference or one that stands to be overcome with further technological innovation? Does the (in)ability of chatbots and LLMs to make promises, ask questions, issue commands, or make statements in ways relevantly similar to what human beings do carry ethical implications for our relationship with AIs? Finally, would the embodiment of a chatbot, LLM, or other language-using technology inside a social or a humanoid robot carry implications for any of the above questions? 
 
Confirmed contributors are:
Neri Marsili, Steffen Koch, Paolo Monti, Herman Cappelen, Rachel Sterken, Alexander Wiegmann, Markus Kneer, Marta Halina, Paula Sweeney, Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini and Laura Weidinger.

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