Top 10 and Top 100 Most Desired Articles

Below are two lists, one of the top 10 and the other of the top 100 articles that we would like to publish. See the additional lists of articles already reserved and of articles for each area of philosophy that are desired by the editors in charge of those areas. Philosophy faculty members from any country are welcome to suggest writing an article on a topic that is not on any of these lists. Avoid narrow topics and the promotion of one’s own original idea. All expected due dates for completion of an article need to be 12 months or less.

  • Bradley, F. H.
  • Determinism
  • Ethics: Contemporary
  • Hellenistic Philosophy
  • Human Nature
  • Idealism
  • Plato: Forms
  • Sartre: Overview
  • Science: Philosophy of
  • Substance

The above 10 articles require a word count of about 12,000-20,000 words. Authors need a Ph.D. in philosophy plus evidence of expertise in the area.

  • al-Ghazali
  • Anthropic Principles
  • Apprehension
  • Bataille
  • Baudrillard
  • Bayesianism
  • Bergson
  • Blanchot
  • Bonaventure
  • Buddhist Philosophy in China
  • Business Ethics
  • Chinese Philosophy, Law in
  • Chinese Philosophy, Logic in
  • Chinese Philosophy, Nature in
  • Chomsky
  • Critical Thinking
  • Deism
  • Diderot
  • Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu)
  • Duties and Deontological Ethics
  • Egoism, Ethical
  • Empiricism, British
  • Encyclopedists
  • Enlightenment
  • Erasmus
  • Ethical Naturalism
  • Ethics: Ancient
  • Ethics: Eastern Theories
  • Ethics: History of
  • Euthanasia
  • Evolution, Philosophical Issues in the Theory of
  • Foot, Philippa
  • Greek Philosophy, Ancient
  • Grünbaum
  • Hermeneutics
  • Horkheimer
  • Humanism
  • Hume: Ethics
  • Idealism
  • Informal Logic
  • Information Technology and Ethics
  • Kripke
  • Le Doeuff
  • Linguistic Turn
  • Locke’s Epistemology
  • Logic in Chinese Philosophy
  • Logic, Philosophical
  • Logical Empiricism or Logical Positivism
  • Logical Form
  • Marxism
  • Mereology
  • Moral Skepticism
  • Naturalism in Chinese Philosophy
  • Naturalistic Fallacy
  • Newton
  • Nietzsche: Ethical Theory
  • Paley, William
  • Parfit, Derek
  • Peripatetics
  • Philosophy
  • Plato: Ethical Theory
  • Pluralism
  • Popper: Overview
  • Predestination
  • Properties and Qualities
  • Putnam
  • Pyrrho
  • Quine: Language
  • Rationality
  • Religion and Ethics
  • Right to Private Property
  • Ryle
  • Saussure
  • Scholastic Philosophy
  • Semantics, Formal
  • Set Theory
  • Sidgwick, Henry
  • Teleological Explanation
  • Utilitarianism: History of
  • Vedanta
  • Voluntarism
  • Zombies, Philosophical

See the additional lists of desired articles in specific areas of philosophy at:
https://www.iep.utm.edu/submit/desired/.

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