We (Sinéad Cleary, Joanna Demaree-Cotton, and Alexander Max Bauer) are excited to announce a new community resource to help experimental philosophers choose journals for their work.
After another recent round of identifying a suitable journal for one of our own recent experimental philosophy manuscripts (going through the process of identifying prospective journals with any record of publishing experimental studies, as well as basics – subfield, word count, etc.) we figured: why not pool the community’s knowledge and resources? The result is a crowd-sourced, interactive table compiling journals that publish experimental philosophy. The table includes links to official journal guidelines as well as existing crowdsourced metrics and sources, and lets users filter and sort by keywords and various categories.
This resource was partly inspired by the memory of a previous resource compiled by Justin Sytsma in 2018 (see here and here). However, some things have (happily for x-phi) changed since then. To give just one example, while in 2018 Justin noted only one experimental paper published in Ergo, this journal now has an area editor in the field of experimental philosophy (shout out to Pascale Willemsen!) and a number of great experimental philosophy papers have appeared on its pages in recent years. We have not attempted any analysis of change over time, nor have we attempted to replicate Justin’s efforts to quantify how much x-phi is published where. But we expect things have changed for other venues as well. Indeed, as of 2026 there’s a brand new dedicated journal for publishing experimental philosophy.
We have also designed the resource with the future in mind. We hope that continued crowd-sourced input from the x-phi community – from you! – will go into correcting, maintaining, and updating this resource, as inevitable errors are identified and things change in the field.
With that in mind, we would love the community to offer feedback in response to the following questions:
- Are you aware of journals that publish x-phi work that are not currently included?
- Some journals currently have empty entries under “Examples of x-phi papers recently published,” as we haven’t had the capacity to locate relevant papers. If you know of suitable examples, we’d be grateful if you could nominate references!
- Do you have any additional notes or comments we should include about specific journals listed here (in the “Notes” column or otherwise)?
- Do have other information that you believe should be included and would help researchers decide where to submit their work? If so, do you have ideas about how we might source this information?
One final caveat. We acknowledge that this resource is imperfect in many ways. We regard it as a works-in-progress – but one that does not pretend to aim at perfection (though we hope to correct any outright errors). It is a community resource based on crowdsourced information, not a formal analysis. We have tried to be transparent about where different pieces of information come from through consistent hyperlinking and attribution notes. Unsourced data can be assumed to be anecdotal or individual opinion. We have no doubt that some of the primary/sub-field classifications are up for debate. And we take no stand on such questions as to whether one should or should not pay attention to journal rankings or this-or-that metric when publishing (plenty of healthy debate on these issues exist in the academic blogosphere!). We include these sources or metrics because we know that many people do consider them, and consolidating these different sources into a single spreadsheet might save folks some time. Our hope is simply that this is a useful resource to the experimental philosophy community (at different career-stages, with different professional and research needs, with different views on publication).
Please comment or get in touch with your comments, feedback, or updates!
Special thanks go to Kevin Reuter, Edouard Machery, Carme Isern-Mas, and Eugen Fischer for invaluable feedback that helped us put this together.