CFP: Philosophia Reformata special issue on the legacy of MD Stafleu

Call for Papers: The legacy of M. D. Stafleu

Journal: Philosophia Reformata (www.brill.com/phir)

Guest editors: Richard Gunton (Queen Mary University of London) and Gerrit Glas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Deadline: Papers (5,000–9,000 words) may be submitted through the journal’s website.

Marinus Dirk (Dick) Stafleu (1937–2024) wrote extensively on philosophy of physics, and encyclopedically on the sciences at large. Drawing on and critiquing the work of Herman Dooyeweerd, he made important contributions to a Reformational philosophy of science reaching from mathematics to social and political sciences. However, since his passing in November 2024, Stafleu's legacy appears largely limited to his 24 papers in Philosophia Reformata, 5 papers in other peer-reviewed journals, and some 15 books in English and Dutch, mostly self-published on his own website (although 5 were published in print by various minor publishing houses).

We invite scholars who have drawn on any of Stafleu's work to contribute to a special issue that will clarify and situate his contributions in the philosophical foundations of physics and of the sciences more broadly. Topics might include, for example:

• Foundations of physics
• Foundations of mathematics
• History of the Copernican Revolution
• Theories of scientific progress
• Emergence of classical from Newtonian physics
• Emergence of modern from classical physics
• Philosophy of quantum physics
• Evolution and history
• Modal aspects and relation frames
• Characters and character types
• Encyclopedia of the sciences
• The teaching of physics 

For more information, please contact the editorial assistant, Mathanja Berger: [email protected].

http://www.brill.com/phir