Call for papers

Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía

Special issue: “Thought and Reasoning in Non-Human Animals”

Guest editor: Laura Danón

We invite submissions for a special issue of Crítica on “Thought and Reasoning in Non-Human Animals”. The issue will feature invited papers by Giacomo Melis (Stirling University), Carolina Scotto (CONICET), Robert Lurz (Brooklyn College) and Erik Nelson (Dalhousie University).

Possible topics include: attribution of intentional mental states to non-human animals, animal beliefs, animal inferential capacities, meta-representation and metacognition in animals, animal agency, different kinds of reasoning processes in animals, animal concepts and animal representations. 

Papers should not exceed 10,000 words excluding references and should be submitted in PDF or Word format to the following email address: ldanon@unc.edu.ar. Acceptable languages are English and Spanish. The deadline for submissions is July 15^st, 2025.

Authors must send two electronic versions of their manuscripts. One should include the author’s name, title of contribution, e-mail address, postal address (including phone number); and a second version should be prepared for anonymous refereeing, where all references to the author including acknowledgements and biographical details are omitted. The file containing the article text must include the title, an abstract (100 words maximum) and a list of five keywords not mentioned in the title. If possible, title, abstract, and keywords should be both in English and Spanish.