About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, ISSN 2179-3786, Qualis/CAPES A3, is a journal of the Brazilian Section of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft (Schopenhauer Society) linked to the Postgraduate Programs in Philosophy at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and of Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). It's main aim is to publish original articles, reviews, translations and interviews in the field of Philosophy, especially on Schopenhauerian philosophy, in order to promote dialogue between Brazilian and foreign researchers. The journal is published in two sections: (i) Schopenhauerian Studies, the journal's original issue, which publishes works related to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer; (ii) thematic Dossiers, which publishes works on a wide range of topics in the field of Philosophy related in some way to Schopenhauer's philosophy. In addition, the journal occasionally publishes special issues. The journal is published on an annual basis in the Continuous Publishing model. In this format, manuscripts are published as soon as the evaluation and review processes have been completed.

Peer Review Process

This journal practices double blind peer review as standard review process for articles. Manuscripts will be send to two external referees (and to a third party, if necessary) to ensure that the manuscript meets the journal's editorial policies. All submissions are reviewed through the System for Edition of Electronic Journals (SEER/OJS). The Referees will receive an e-mail with the abstract and a login to access the journal's electronic system (where he/she will be able to access the guidelines for authors and further information on how to submit revisions to the editor). The review is blind. The uploaded file will be in ".docx" or ".doc" format and will not include any information that could identify the author. The editorial board of the journal has the final decision on whether or not to publish a given manuscript, taking into account its originality, significance and scientific merit. Reviews, translations, interviews, and articles – by invited authors – are evaluated by the editorial board.

Publication Frequency

Continuous publication since 2020, on an annual basis.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of its content, following the principle that free access to scientific research generates a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased reading and citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, visit: Public Knowledge Project.

Article Processing Charge Policy

This journal does not charge authors for processing their articles (APCs - article processing charges).

Superior Administration of UFSM

Rector: Paulo Afonso Burmann

Vice-rector: Luciano Schuch

Chief of buereau: Getulio Rocha Retamoso

Coordinateur for Basic Education, Tchnical and Technological: Marcelo Freitas da Silva

Pro-rector for Administration: José Carlos Segalla

Pro-rector for Graduation and Research: Paulo Renato Schneider

Pro-rector for Students Affairs: Clayton Hillig

Pro-rector for Academic Extension: Flavi Ferreira Lisboa Filho

Pro-rector for Personal Management: Marcia Helena do Nascimento Lorentz

Pro-rector Undergraduate Studies: Martha Bohrer Adaime

Pro-rector for Infrastructure: José Mario Doleys Soares

Pro-rector for Planning: Frank Leonardo Casado

Qualis/CAPES

This journal is classified as A3 according to the most recent evaluation conducted by Qualis-CAPES.

Mission

Our mission is the publication of research in Philosophy and in Interdisciplinary areas that contribute to the contemporary reflection, as well as to the improvement of the process of scientific research and dissemination, in view of the creation of networks of knowledge between research institutions and academic community, at the service of society.

Our target audience is researchers, professors and students (brazilian and foreign) of Philosophy and alike areas.

International Standard Serial Number - ISSN

ISSN: 2179-3786

Editorial ethics and publishing best practices

Editors

The editorial activities of Voluntas Journal and the relation between their editors, authors and evaluators are under the aegis of the Standard for editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

All decisions of editorial affairs are based in criteria of relevance, originality, clearness and legitimacy of the study for effectuation of the journal’s objectives.

Evaluators

The evaluations and technical opinions are exclusively based on the work’s merit, without influences from personal bias or prejudices of intellectual and academic order, ensuring the confidentiality over the editorial process.

The evaluators must notice any potential conflict of interest at the time of the evaluation acceptance of the work submitted. The editors will be communicated in case of suspicion or verification of plagiarism, falsification of data, or redundant publication.    

Authors

The indication of authorship in the scientific works applies only in the cases that the cited:

a) directly and substantially contribute intellectually on the research conception whose result is submitted to the journal (acquisition, analysis or interpretation of study’s data);

b) participate in the construction of preliminar versions or critical review of the content;

c) approve the final edition of the paper to be published;

d) accept the authorship responsibility for the purpose of assure the paper’s exactitude and integrity.  

Author(s) must present the statement of interest conflict when it is required.

Retraction and statement of concern

The editors must act in occurrence of suspicion, allegation or verification of misconduct. This investigation has validity both for submissions and for published works.

Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy has as instrument COPE’s flowcharts (available at: https://publicationethics.org/files/Full%20set%20of%20English%20flowcharts_9Nov2016.pdf) to investigate and verify facts and judge the suited actions to solve the cases.

Charge Policy for Submission or Publication

This journal does not charge authors for their articles submission or publication. 

Journal History

The journal was created in 2010 with the title Revista Voluntas: Estudos sobre Schopenhauer, by Diana Chao Decock, Renato Nunes Bittencourt and Vilmar Debona, a group of then Post-Graduates in Philosophy. Later, in 2013, the journal began publishing as the journal of the Schopenhauer Society of Brazil (Brazilian Section of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft). Between the years 2010 and 2018, the journal published exclusively papers on or related to Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy. In 2018 the journal went through a series of changes and improvements, had its editorial policies reformulated and its title changed to Voluntas: Revista Internacional de Filosofia, keeping the same ISSN. With this, it broke its link with the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) to be linked as an activity of the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Also in 2018, as a journal of the Federal University of Santa Maria, Voluntas became hosted on the UFSM Periodical Portal (OJS/SEER system), an institutional portal that, since then, publishes and supports the journal. In 2019, the journal changed its periodicity from biannual to four-monthly, and each of its issues began to be divided into two parts: a Section entitled Schopenhauerian Studies, which publishes in continuous flow and continues the original profile of the journal; and another Section of thematic Dossiers on any authors, approaches, currents of thought or areas of philosophy, edited by guest editors and publishers. Also in 2019, the journal started publishing the files of its issues in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) format, in addition to the traditional PDF format. In 2020, in order to speed up the editing and publication processes, the journal was a pioneer in the field of Philosophy in Brazil by adopting the editorial policy called Continuous Publication, which consists of publishing the issues as soon as the editing of the first article(s) is completed, without the need to wait for the closing of all items of the issue. As of 2022, besides further strengthening the Section Schopenhauerian Studies as its original profile, always published in Continuous Flow, it has restricted the proposals of eventual dossiers to themes somehow related to Schopenhauerian philosophy.