Submission Guidelines
Authors are not required to have a paid subscription to Aletheia prior to submitting their manuscript. However, we do ask that you register for a free membership so that you receive our weekly newsletter, updates about Aletheia, etc.
Authors that opt for a paid membership will receive priority reviewing and may submit up to four articles for consideration each month. Free subscribers are limited to one submission per month.
Note: Becoming a paid subscriber does not increase your chances of publication. Review decisions are based solely on the quality of your manuscript, how well it fits our publication scope, etc.
Paid subscriptions are $10/month and include full access to everything we publish.
General Guidelines
General guidelines apply to all columns. There are additional column-specific guidelines below. Find the column you are interested in submitting to and review those guidelines before submitting.
Manuscripts on any topic or subtopic of philosophy will be considered. We accept submissions from both “analytic” and “continental” traditions, in addition to eastern philosophy.
While you are free to use any citation/formatting style that you want, we prefer Chicago style with footnotes. We suggest double line spacing, 12 pt. font, and Times New Roman font style.
There are no length requirements, but there are length suggestions in the column-specific guidelines below.
We are working to establish a peer-review process that reaches an initial decision within two weeks of submission. Because we are still in the early stages of building a comprehensive list of peer-reviewers, time to decision may be delayed.
Edit your manuscript thoroughly before sending it to us.
Please include an abstract, no more than 250 words, and a title page in your submitted document. The title page should include the title of your manuscript, your name, relevant affiliations, email address, and date.
All submissions must include a signed publication agreement form. Submissions that do not include a signed publication agreement form will not be considered.
Submissions should be sent to Jacob@Aleth.org in PDF or Word format. The email subject line should include the column you are submitting to and the title of your paper/article.
Please note that although we plan to pay our contributors in the future, we cannot offer payment at this time. Aletheia is a new publication—founded in December 2024—and we must build the publication before we can begin compensating our writers and reviewers. Your contributions will help us build the audience that we need so that we can begin paying writers and reviewers.
Although we cannot compensate writers or reviewers at this time, we are offering indefinite priority reviewing to all early contributors. In other words, as an early contributor that helped us build the publication, you are guaranteed priority reviewing for life. We expect submissions to accelerate once we begin compensating, so priority review will be hugely beneficial at that time.
If you are interested in reviewing for us, please email Jacob@Aleth.org with your CV and topic interests/expertise. Please use “Reviewer Interest” as the email subject line.
General questions may also be directed to Jacob@Aleth.org.
Column Specific Guidelines
The Symposium
The Symposium is a public-facing philosophy column. This means that articles should be accessible to a wide audience. If only the people in your field of interest would understand the article, it is NOT suitable for The Symposium. Write your article as if you were talking to a friend from another discipline. Be intelligent—don’t “dumb” thing down. But don’t be needlessly esoteric or verbose, either.
As we build our content, we will refer to examples on our platform that best represent The Symposium. Until then, see Aeon magazine’s philosophy column and Philosophy Now magazine for examples of the kind of content we are looking for.
While there are no length requirements, suggested article length is 1,000 – 3,000 words.
The Lyceum
The Lyceum is an academic centered column. Submitted manuscripts should represent the quality of work that one might find in an academic journal. That being said, this column is distinctive from most journal practices in that it has no length requirements, and we will not reprimand you for neglecting to cite all thirty articles that mentioned the concept or idea that you are about to comment on. In other words, we don’t care about elaborate preludes which show you’ve read every piece of literature on the topic. We care about YOUR quality of thought. This doesn’t mean you can throw citations aside. Give credit where credit is do. Don’t plagiarize. But don’t make citations and preludes your primary concern. Be creative but maintain rigor.
Suggested manuscript length is under 10,000 words.
Note: Submissions to The Lyceum will take the longest to review. That said, we aim to have an initial decision to you within four weeks.
The Atheneum
The Atheneum is a column intended for students and new philosophy writers. There are admittedly few places where eager philosophy students can test out their ideas and writing abilities in a constructive environment. We want to change that. Atheneum authors will receive guidance on both content and writing style, and they will be introduced to the peer-review process.
Suggested manuscript length is 1,000 – 5,000 words.
Payment Structure
As a new publication founded in December 2024, we can’t pay writers and reviewers just yet. But I think it is important, nevertheless, to give you an idea of what payment might be like in the future.
We will begin paying writers and reviewers when we’ve reached 1,000 paid subscribers. Once we hit that milestone, we will pay $50 per article and $25 per review.
Because we are committed to shared growth, each milestone will result in increased pay for our contributors.
For example, if we were to reach 10,000 paid subscribers, we would be able to pay our contributors up to $500 per article and $150 per review.
More information on pay structure will be released in the coming months.