Focus and Scope

PUBLIC REALM is the biannual journal of the NKUA Political Philosophy Research Laboratory. It is an international open-access peer reviewed journal aspiring to provide opportunities to postgraduate and early career scholars for publication of their research.

PUBLIC REALM invites original unpublished research within the field of Political Philosophy and more specifically on:

• Ancient Political Philosophy
• Medieval and Rennaisance Political Philosophy
• The Enlightenment - 18^th/ 19^th Century Philosophy
• 20^th Century Political Philosophy
• Contemporary Political Philosophy

PUBLIC REALM encourages authors to follow an interdisciplinary approach and present their research in a novel way. We strongly believe that young researchers must be provided with opportunities to present their ground-breaking work.

Peer Review Process

PUBLIC REALM follows a double blind peer review process to secure the quality, validity and academic integrity of its content.  At first stage, submitted manuscripts are accessed by the Editor in order to ensure that they fall within the scope of the Journal.  Manuscripts which meet the Journal’s criteria are then reviewed by at least two reviewers.  The final decision concerning the acceptance for publication rests exclusively with the Editor.

The standard length of time for the review procedure and the Editors' decision is twelve (12) weeks, starting from the date of confirmation of receipt on behalf of the Editor.

Publication Frequency

PUBLIC REALM is published biannually. Following Editorial decision special issues relating to specific themes may be published.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Scientific Committee

Editor-in-Chief

Vana Nicolaidou-Kyrianidou, Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department, Director of the Political Philosophy Research Laboratory, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens -

Georgios Arabatzis, Professor, Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Alain Brossat, Department of Philosophy, Université Paris-Nanterre Université Paris-VIII

Georgios Faraklas, Professor, Department of Political Science and History, Panteio University.

Dr Christos Grigoriou, Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Vicky Iakovou, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of Aegean.

Benjamic Isaac, Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics, Tel-Aviv University.

Ioannis Kalogerakos, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University

Jean-François Kervégan, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Golfo Magini, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina.

Eleni Perdikouri, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Patra.

Philimon Peonidis, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Dr Costantinos Repapis, Lecturer in Economics, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Spyridon Tegos, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophical and Social Studies, University of Crete.

Alonso Tordesillas, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Aix-Marseille University.

Voula Tsouna, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Santa Barbara.

Georgios Vasilaros, Professor, Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University

ePublisher

The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.

EKT’s vision is “Access to Knowledge”. To this end it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.

EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities . Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.

EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.

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