Guest editors: Valeria Giardino and Gabriel Greenberg
Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2013
The Theme
Pictorial and spatial representation play an essential role in a vast range \;of human communication and reasoning\, exemplified by the widespread use of \;diagrams\, maps\, pictures\, iconic gestures\, comics\, and film.
In this special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology\, we seek to \;bring together work from philosophy and cognitive science (including \;psychology\, linguistics\, and computer science) that breaks new ground in the \;study of spatial representation generally. Recent developments in these \;fields set the stage for new and exciting perspectives on this poorly \;understood\, but philosophically and scientifically central subject matter.
The primary subject of this special issue is the public use of pictorial and \;spatial representations\, including uses in a variety of functional roles\, \;such as communication\, externalized reasoning and proof\, planning\, and \;navigation. We will exclude research on the more familiar subject of spatial \;cognition\, including perception and mental imagery\, except insofar as it is \;related to public representational phenomena. We encourage submissions which \;pinpoint specific media\, but which also address fundamental semantic \;concepts like content\, veridicality\, and validity as they apply to the \;variety of spatial representations. In addition\, we welcome contributions \;which draw connections between contemporary philosophical and scientific \;research\, as well as work which fosters rigorous engagement with empirical \;results and formal methods.
Potential articles might discuss:
Invited Authors
\nImportant Dates
Submission deadline: 1 August 2013
Target publication date: 31 March 2014
How to submit
Prospective authors should register at: \;www.editorialmanager.com/ropp \;to \;obtain a login and select Pictorial and Spatial Representation as the \;article type. Manuscripts should be approximately 8\,000 words and conform to \;the author guidelines available on the journal's website.
About the journal
The Review of Philosophy and Psychology (ISSN: 1878-5158\; eISSN: 1878-5166) \;is a peer-reviewed journal\, published quarterly by Springer\, which focuses \;on philosophical and foundational issues in cognitive science. The journal&rsquo\;s \;aim is to provide a forum for discussion on topics of mutual interest to \;philosophers and psychologists and to foster interdisciplinary research at \;the crossroads of philosophy and the sciences of the mind\, including the \;neural\, behavioural and social sciences. The journal publishes theoretical \;works grounded in empirical research as well as empirical articles on issues \;of philosophical relevance. It includes thematic issues featuring invited \;contributions from leading authors together with articles answering a call \;for papers.
Contact
For any queries\, please email the guest editors: \;valeria.giardino@gmail.com \;and \;gabriel.greenberg@gmail.com