Published since May 1, 2000

SATS

Northern European Journal of Philosophy

ISSN: 1869-7577

Editors-in-chief: Mark Addis, Nora Hämäläinen, Esther Oluffa Pedersen, Kenneth R. Westphal

In cooperation with: Arman Teymouri Niknam

Managing Editor: Esther Oluffa Pedersen

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About this journal

SATS – Northern European Journal of Philosophy publishes accessible, high-quality academic articles in all traditions and fields of philosophy. As a broad and inclusive philosophy journal, it is our mission to promote philosophical dialogue across disciplinary boundaries, within philosophy and with neighbouring fields. We welcome submissions from junior as well as senior scholars who in their work are aiming to promote philosophical dialogue. To achieve this, articles submitted to SATS should

be jargon-free and written in clear accessible prose

address a broad audience of philosophers and philosophically oriented academics

seek to contextualise the philosophical questions addressed

SATS publishes two issues per year: A special issue in the spring and a regular issue in the autumn.

Our special issue addresses a topic which has relevance for promoting philosophical dialogue and cross-disciplinary thinking. Please watch for calls for papers to special issues on our homepage.

Our regular issue includes submissions from all fields of philosophy and a book review section. The book review section is especially dedicated to highlighting reviews with interdisciplinary relevance.

Upon submission, we aim to give authors swift feedback on the status of their manuscripts.

Contemporary academic philosophy is characterised by increased specialisation and small technical and scholarly debates. Although such discussions are crucial for the development and growth of knowledge, they require a counterbalance in the form of texts and contexts of broader scope. We believe that original research in philosophy can be written in a non-technical, lucid style and that philosophical discussions have much to gain from such work. To support a fruitful exchange of ideas, we encourage authors to explicate technical issues, and to clarify the relevance of their work to non-specialists.

Our goal is to be a favourite publication venue for interdisciplinary philosophical debates. We welcome and support submissions that contextualise philosophy by bringing it into dialogue with other fields, for instance literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, economics, mathematics or the natural sciences. We also believe that philosophy benefits from dealing with the immediate concerns of modern societies, and that modern societies benefit from more engaged forms of philosophy. In other words, SATS is happy to provide a venue for articles that put philosophy to work beyond specialised philosophical discussions.

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Your article can be published open access if your institution sponsors such an arrangement or if it has an agreement with De Gruyter – please see the sections about publishing in hybrid open access journals here: https://www.degruyter.com/cms/pages/oa-articles

Call for Papers:

Philosophical Perspectives on Trust in Contemporary Societies

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Volume 23 Issue 2

November 2022

Publicly Available November 4, 2022

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Page range: i-iii

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Open Access September 26, 2022

Cocks on Dunghills – Wollstonecraft and Gouges on the Women’s Revolution

Sandrine Bergès, Alan Coffee

Page range: 135-152

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Abstract

While many historians and philosophers have sought to understand the ‘failure’ of the French Revolution to thrive and to avoid senseless violence, very few have referred to the works of two women philosophers who diagnosed the problems as they were happening. This essay looks at how Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges theorised the new tyranny that grew out of the French Revolution, that of ‘petty tyrants’ who found themselves like ‘cocks on a dunghill’ able to wield a new power over those less fortunate than themselves. Both offer diagnoses and prognoses that revolve around education. Wollstonecraft argues that a revolution that is not backed by a previous education of the people is bound to result in chaos and violence. Such education, however, must be slow, and it necessitates the reform of the institutions that most shape the public’s character. A revolution, perforce, is fast, and it often takes several years, or even generations before the spirit of the reforms finds itself implemented into new institutions. Olympe de Gouges shares Wollstonecraft’s worry and she observes that the men who were once dominated quickly become tyrants themselves unless their moral character is already virtuous. But the state of being dominated leaves little room for virtue; hence, newly minted citizens need to be educated in order not to replicate the reign of tyranny onto other. Gouges suggests that the answer to the difficulty she and Wollstonecraft highlighted was to educate the people where they could be found: on the streets, or, where they could easily and willingly be gathered: in theatres. By helping organise revolutionary festivals, highlighting the ways in which citizens could be virtuous, and writing plays to awaken their virtue, and proposing a reform of the theatre, so that the production of such plays would be possible, Gouges offered a plan for the civic education of French citizens in the immediate aftermaths of the Revolution. Unfortunately, the chaos she and Wollstonecraft had sought to remedy, led by the cocks or petty tyrants, ensured that they were unable to see through their plans, with Wollstonecraft having to leave Paris and Gouges being sent to the guillotine.

July 15, 2022

Affectivity in Media-Based Public Discussions: A Critical Phenomenological Analysis

Minna-Kerttu Maarja Kekki

Page range: 153-173

Abstract

Affectivity has become an operative concept for a variety of analyses of our everyday media-based public communications. However, it often remains unclear what affectivity is and how it can be used for analysing media-based public discussions. To clarify the role of affectivity in such analyses, I take a look back to the classical phenomenological analyses of affectivity provided by Edmund Husserl. I argue that based on Husserl’s analyses, affectivity is essentially a relation between the object and the affected subject evoking (sometimes emotional) responses in the subject. Accordingly, the role of affectivity in the opinion formation and other similar processes in media-based public discussions can be analysed as contingent sedimentations of the object’s such relations to the subject. As my analysis demonstrates, analyses of affectivity in the context of media-based communications do not capture their research object—affectivity—if affectivity is conceived as a feature of the media contents and not as a modality of experience.

August 25, 2021

Rationalizing: Kant on Moral Self-Deception

Jörg Noller

Page range: 175-189

Abstract

Kant’s moral philosophy is challenged by the so-called “Socratic Paradox”: If free will and pure practical reason are to be identified, as Kant argues, then there seems to be no room for immoral actions that are to be imputed to our individual freedom. The paper argues that Kant’s conception of rationalizing (“Vernünfteln”) helps us to avoid the Socratic Paradox, and to understand how immoral actions can be imputed to our individual freedom and responsibility. In rationalizing, we misuse our capacity of reason in order to construct the illusion according to which we are not bound to the absolute demand of the moral law, but rather subject to exceptions and excuses. Finally, the paper interprets the three rules of “common sense” ( sensus communis ) in Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment in terms of an antidote to rationalizing.

June 14, 2022

The Stoic Theory of Sign and the Semantic Modulation of Models

Miguel López-Astorga

Page range: 191-201

Abstract

The theory of mental models is a current cognitive approach trying to describe the way people make inferences. According to this theory, people reason from possibilities or models linked to sentences. Sometimes, such possibilities or models are transformed by the action of a semantic modulation. The point this paper is intended to make is that Stoic logic also has the machinery to explain semantic processes such as that of modulation. This is shown by means of the criterion Chrysippus of Soli provided for conditional sentences and the theory of sign related to that criterion.

Book Reviews

May 18, 2022

Pihlström, Sami: Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy: On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other

John R. Shook

Page range: 203-206

Open Access September 14, 2022

Møller, Sofie: Kant’s Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason

Carsten Fogh Nielsen

Page range: 207-210

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June 17, 2022

Eriksen, Cecilie: Moral Change: Dynamics, Structure, and Normativity

Natan Elgabsi

Page range: 211-215

September 13, 2022

Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal: Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition

Martin Fog Arndal

Page range: 217-222

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Volume 23 (2022)

Volume 22 (2021)

Volume 21 (2020)

Volume 20 (2020)

Volume 19 (2018)

Volume 18 (2017)

Volume 17 (2016)

Volume 16 (2015)

Volume 15 (2014)

Volume 14 (2013)

Volume 13 (2012)

Volume 12 (2011)

Volume 11 (2010)

Volume 10 (2009)

Volume 9 (2008)

Volume 8 (2007)

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Volume 6 (2005)

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SCImago Journal Rank	0.135
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.429

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Editorial

Executive Editors
Mark Addis, London
Nora Hämäläinen, Helsinki
Esther Oluffa Pedersen, Roskilde
Kenneth R. Westphal, Istanbul

Managing Editor
Esther Oluffa Pedersen, Roskilde

Managing Editorial Assistant
Arman Teymouri Niknam, Copenhagen

Book Review Editors
Martin Friis Nielsen, Copenhagen
Arman Teymouri Niknam, Copenhagen

Advisory Board
Anne - Marie S. Christensen, Odense
Antje Gimmler, Aalborg
Anne Granberg, Bergen
Lars Bo Gundersen, Aarhus
Martin Gustafsson, Åbo
Sara Heinämaa, Jyväskylä
Daniel D. Hutto, Wollongong
Mikael Janvid, Stockholm
Klemens Kappel, Copenhagen
Arto Laitinen, Tampere
Øystein Linnebo, Oslo
Jonas Nilsson, Umeå
Søren Riis, Roskilde
Sebastian Rödl, Leipzig
Sigridur Thorgeirsdóttir, Reykjavik
Sjoerd van Tuinen, Rotterdam
Isabelle Wienand, Basel
Petri Ylikoski, Helsinki
Dan Zahavi, Copenhagen

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(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 1869-7577
Print ISSN: 1600-1974
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: May 1, 2000
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year
Audience: Academics (Philosophy), Libraries, Institutes
Keywords: Philosophy/Current Debates