Dear Colleagues,

Philosophy & Theory in Biology (P&TB) is a new peer-reviewed open-access
online journal to be launched in the Fall of 2009, and it aims to
bring together philosophers of science and theoretically inclined
biologists in order to interact across disciplinary boundaries. The goal
of this interaction is to foster a broader conception of what it means
to do “theory” in science and philosophically analyze the sciences, in
order to benefit both research communities.

P&TB is for a mixed audience of philosophers of science and biologists,
and therefore we seek papers that are methodologically diverse,
including but not limited to standard philosophy of biology analyses
of concepts or research programs and ‘theoretical’ papers by biologists.
P&TB also publishes select, in-depth reviews and trend articles
pertinent to theoretical biology and philosophy of biology in order to
stimulate discussion on topics with implications for both biologists and
philosophers.

P&TB strives to maintain the highest standards of scholarship while
simultaneously making its papers available at no cost to the academic
community, independent scholars, and the public at large. P&TB
is published only online, a choice that springs from the advantages
offered by new technologies and from a desire to reduce publication and
environmental costs.

The editorial board consists of a highly distinguished group of
philosophers and biologists, including: Alex Badyaev (University of
Arizona), John Beatty (University of British Columbia), Carol Cleland
(University of Colorado), Deborah Gordon (Stanford University), Paul
Griffiths (University of Sydney), Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv
University), David Jablonski (University of Chicago), Elizabeth Lloyd
(Indiana University), Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark College), Samir
Okasha (University of Bristol), Anya Plutynski (University of
Utah), Sean Rice (Texas Tech University), Elliott Sober (University of
Wisconsin), Mike Wade (Indiana University), Günter Wagner (Yale
University) and Mary Jane West-Eberhard (Smithsonian Institution,
Panama).

Instruction for authors can be downloaded on the provisional web site of
the journal, at http://www.philosophyandtheoryinbiology.org/. Further
information can be obtained by writing an email
to editors@philosophyandtheoryinbiology.org.

Sincerely, the Editors 
Massimo Pigliucci (City University of New York)
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University) 
Alan Love (University of Minnesota) 
Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University)

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