CFP: Thoughts, Things, Truth in the Analytic Tradition: Reflections on the Work of Charles Travis

The Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG) of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto, cordially invites you to submit papers for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Thought, Things, Truth in the Analytic Tradition: Reflections on the Work of Charles Travis. The special issue aims to revisit and further explore Charles Travis’ work on the nature of thought, language, logic, perception, and rationality.

Guest Editor(s):

• James Grayot, University of Porto, [email protected] (lead editor)

• Sofia Miguens, University of Porto, [email protected]

• Ana Falcato, University of Porto, [email protected]


DESCRIPTION:
Following the success of the 2023 reading group “Thought, Things, Truth:12 Essays by Charles Travis” and of the 2024 conference “Thought, Things, Truth in the Analytic Tradition: Reflections on the Work of Charles Travis”, we are happy to announce a call for papers in this thematic collection of Topoi concerning the work of Charles Travis and its dialog with philosophers from the past and present.

Travis’s work on the nature of thought, language, logic, rationality, and perception; his authority on philosophers such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein or JL Austin; and his on-going dialogs with contemporary scholars, such as Hilary Putnam or John McDowell, have had a profound influence on philosophical debates across analytic philosophy.

Proposed Topics:

• Philosophy of logic
• Philosophy of language
• Ordinary language philosophy
• Contextualism
• Truth
• Rationality
• The history of analytic philosophy
• Frege
• Wittgenstein
• Austin
• Putnam

Confirmed invited contributors:

• Avner Baz (Tufts University)

• Kenneth Westphal (Bogaziçi University) 

• Charles Travis (Tsinghua University / King's College Longon)


Submission DEADLINE: Please submit your paper by March 15, 2026. Should you not be able to meet this deadline, please contact the Lead Guest Editor (contact details below).
Online SUBMISSION: Please use the journal’s Online Manuscript Submission System (Editorial Manager), accessible here Editorial Manager®. Do note that paper submissions via email are not accepted.
Author Submission’s GUIDELINES: Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts according to the journal’s standard Submission Guidelines.

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EDITORIAL PROCESS:

• When uploading your paper in Editorial Manager, please select “SI: Reflections on C. Travis (Grayot)” in the drop-down menu “Article Type”.
• Papers should not exceed a maximum of 9000 words.
• All papers will undergo the journal’s standard review procedure (double-blind peer-review), according to the journal’s Peer Review Policy, Process and Guidance
• Reviewers will be selected according to the Peer Reviewer Selection policies.
• This journal offers the option to publish Open Access. You are allowed to publish open access through Open Choice. Please explore the OA options available through your institution by referring to our list of OA Transformative Agreements.
• Once papers are accepted, they will be made available as Online articles publications until final publication into an issue and available on the page Collections.

CONTACT: For any questions, please directly contact the Lead Guest Editor: James Grayot, [email protected].