We are very happy to introduce our Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Philosophy & Digitality to you. This Special Issue has a focus on „Scope and limits of digital methods within philosophy (and text-oriented humanities)“:
The impact of digital methods (including the Digital Humanities) in philosophy and further text-oriented areas can be welcomed as a promise of computational enhancement, it can be felt as ‘sting of the digital’ (Krämer 2025) or can be critically interpreted as a positivistic displacement of the traditional humanities. We have—to some extent—small knowledge about the philosophy and theory of the digital. But what do we know about doing philosophy under the methodological conditions of digitality—including or excluding methods of the Digital Humanities?
This Special Issue aims to bring four perspectives together under the general heading of “Digital Philosophy”:
- Is there a praxeology of philosophy done digitally yet? What are concrete applications of computational methods towards genuinely philosophical research questions?
- What is the current state of the critical epistemological discussion of digital methods in philosophy and text-oriented humanities?
- What about the role of digital research infrastructures and working environments as prerequisites of discovery and knowledge?
- What are the changing necessities of digital skills and competences used in philosophy and text-oriented disciplines?
Of special interest is the correlation between these aspects.
You can find more information about the CfP here: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/announcement/view/67
Also, you can find more information about the Open Access Journal Philosophy & Digitality here: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi.
If you are interested in contributing to our Special Issue on Digital Philosophy, please send your name, the title of your paper, an abstract of about 200 words and the area you would like to address (1. application of digital methods, 2. critical theoretical inquiries to these methods, 3. digital infrastructures, 4. data literacy) to the editorial team of the Special Issue: Sybille Krämer (sybkram@zedat.fu-berlin.de), Christian Schröter (christian.schroeter@abk-stuttgart.de) and Jonathan D. Geiger (jonathan.geiger@adwmainz.de) until 15th of April 2026. We will get in touch if your contribution will be accepted for the Special Issue. The deadline for the papers (with 2,500 to 6,000 words in length) will then be 30th of September 2026. The publication of the Special Issue is scheduled as a rolling publication for the very end of this year and the beginning of 2027.
If you have any questions regarding the call, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
We are looking very much forward to your contributions.