Scientia et Fides: Announcements
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description: “Scientia et Fides” (SetF) is an open access online journal published twice a year. It is promoted by the Faculty of Theology of Nicolaus Copernicus University, in Torun, in collaboration with the Group of Research “Science, Reason, and Faith” (CRYF), at University of Navarra. SetF aims to present rigorous research works regarding different aspects of the relationship between science and religion. For this reason, SetF articles are not confined to the methodology of a single discipline and may cover a wide range of topics, provided that the interdisciplinary dialogue between science and religion is tackled. The Journal accepts articles written in English, Spanish, Polish, French, Italian and German, which will be evaluated by a peer-review process. "Scientia et Fides" is clasified as Q1 in Philosophy and Q1 in Religious Studies according to Scimago. "Scientia et Fides" journal is listed in the following databases: - CiteFactor (Impact factor 0,82), - Dialnet, - Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), - Emerging Sources Citation Index, - e-Revist@s: Plataforma open access de revistas científicas eletrónicas españolas y latinoaméricanas, - Erih Plus, - Google Scholar, - Index Copernicus International (ICV 2024154.00), - Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals (MIAR), - REDIB, - Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), - Scopus, - The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) - The Philosopher's Index <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>PL</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsi…
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items: Reminder of essential editorial requirements for new submissions to Scientia et Fides
items: Notice from the Editorial Office of Scientia et Fides
items: Attention! Template for the new submission
items: Call for Papers: AI from the Philosophical and Religious Perspectives
items: Call For Papers: Why Middle Sized Matters to Science & Religion
items: Call for papers: Understanding the Future: Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
items: Call for Papers: The Dynamic Theodicy Model: Understanding God, Evil and Evolution
items: Call for Papers: Metaphysics of science: an important ingredient for what?

Reminder of essential editorial requirements for new submissions to Scientia et Fides
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description: Reminder of essential editorial requirements for new submissions to Scientia et Fides journal 1. Each author submits their text via https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF - it is mandatory to provide your ORCID number and affiliation, as well as academic titles. 2. Each submitted text should be anonymized (all author details should be saved in the journal profile, not in the article file) and should contain the following metadata: Abstract. A single paragraph of about 200–250 words maximum. Abstracts should give a pertinent overview of the work. The structure of the article should be reflected: e.g. (1) theoretical background, (2) main thesis of the article, (3) research methods, (4) conclusions. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article and it must not contain results that are not presented and substantiated in the main text. Keywords: keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3 (List three to eight pertinent keywords specific to the article yet reasonably common within the subject discipline; should not use the words used in the title of the article). Contribution. Please provide information on contributions to science, especially if the authors have significantly contributed to the development of research, theory, methodology, or other scientific aspects related to the article. For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided, i.e. what role each author had in the development of the article, e.g. conception, research, analysis, etc. Use of AI. In this section, where applicable, authors are required to disclose details of how artificial intelligence (AI) tools and technologies has been used in this article. For example, please declare whether AI was used to generate text, data, or graphics, or to assist in study design, data collection, analysis, or interpretation. The use of AI tools for superficial text editing (e.g., grammar, spelling, punctuation, and formatting) does not need to be declared…
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date: 2026-02-08

Notice from the Editorial Office of Scientia et Fides
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creator: Scientia et Fides
date: 2026-02-07

Attention! Template for the new submission
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description: Attention Authors! Please submit papers to the journal "Scientia et Fides" prepared in a special SetF template, which includes the required sections and formatting styles - fill them with your content (the new sections are Contribution/Contribution and Use of Artificial Intelligence/AI).
creator: Scientia et Fides
date: 2025-08-22

Call for Papers: AI from the Philosophical and Religious Perspectives
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description: In the considerations about Artificial Intelligence, it is worth combining philosophy with the reflections concerning religion and theological knowledge. This combination enriches the range of the problems which are relevant from the perspective of human condition. We would like to invite all the scholars to contribute to the volume “AI from the Philosophical and Religious” by submitting articles which discuss this kind of topics, at the same time showing how rich the range created by merging philosophical and religious perspectives is. We invite submissions of papers on topics including but not restricted to: AI and philosophical and religious traditions, AI, social philosophy and religious practices, LLMs and the philosophy of dialogue, LLMs and philosophical and theological reasoning, Testing LLMs' capacities in philosophy and theology, Genuine intelligence of AI and the religious and ethical questions. Articles must be written in English and meet the conditions described here: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/about/submissions All submitted papers which meet basic conditions will be peer-reviewed. Those accepted for publication will be published in the journal Scientia et Fides in a special volume edited by Dr Marcin Trepczyński and Dr Furkan Ozcelik. Please contact to: m.trepczynski@uw.edu.pl and ozcelikfu@gmail.com Please submit articles via the journal's website: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/login Deadline for submissions: by May 15 at the latest. The Publisher does not charge Authors and does not pay any honorary. The entire volume will be available in Open Access.
creator: Scientia et Fides
date: 2025-01-08

Call For Papers: Why Middle Sized Matters to Science & Religion
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description: Call For Papers Why Middle Sized Matters to Science & Religion edited by William M. R. Simpson & Christopher Oldfield June 2024 Submissions are invited for a special issue of the journal, Scientia et Fides (Q1 Scopus), entitled ‘Why Middle-Sized Matters to Science and Religion’. This Special Issue is concerned with the nature, reality and significance of things in nature that exist between the microscopic and the cosmic scale: the ‘Middle-Sized Things’. Why do they matter for science and religion? And what kind of philosophy (or theology) of nature best upholds their reality and significance? In contemporary philosophy, there has been a tendency to look to the microscopic or the cosmic scale for the building blocks of reality and meaning, and to treat Middle-Sized Things as having secondary status. Marilynne Robinson once quipped that much popular and philosophical writing on science and religion seems to operate on the assumption that if something is very small or very large it must somehow have to do with the meaning of life. In his 2015 book, After Physics, David Albert imagines being afforded the opportunity of an audience with God and being invited to ask questions about reality, but then being subjected to a very long story about microphysics or cosmology. The field of science and religion has also largely developed in consideration of scientific images of the world focused at the microscopic or the cosmic scale. Whilst this special issue is neither seeking to foster scepticism about the reality of the microscopic nor disregard for the significance of cosmic visions, it aims to broaden our focus by asking why Middle-Sized Things matter for both science and religion. After all, the majority of working scientists are not concerned with things at microscopic or the cosmic scale, but with probing the properties of middle-sized things using middle-sized scientific instruments. And the majority of religious practitioners are not concerned with cosmological narrative…
creator: Scientia et Fides
date: 2024-06-12

Call for papers: Understanding the Future: Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
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description: Journal Scientia et Fides (Q1 Scopus) is running a special issue on: Understanding the Future: Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives Time is one of the great themes in the history of philosophy and theology, which also occupies and preoccupies science and technology. In this monograph we are going to focus on the understanding of the future, both from Metaphysics and from Anthropology or Philosophy of Culture, but also trying to understand what we can expect from the future in different aspects that affect human life. The aim of this monograph is, therefore, threefold: on the one hand, we want to approach the understanding of the future as a time to come; secondly, we want to delve deeper into the human vision of the future, as hope or as expectation. Finally, we want to try to understand, in relation to the above, what we can expect from the development of our world in all the facets that will affect human beings and society in the coming decades: changes in living circumstances (smart cities, climate change, universal basic income), the development of technology (artificial intelligence, communication networks), and even the nature of the human being (transhumanism). The perspective is therefore multidisciplinary, but always from a reflective and argumentative position that links any discipline with Philosophy and Theology. We invite colleagues from all over the world to participate in this monograph of the journal Scientia et fides with original contributions that can provide complementary points of view on this issue with a special focus on the contemporary world. The preferred length of the paper is 30 000 characters (space included). Submission deadline: 30 June 2024. More details about submission preparation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Editors of this special issue: Prof. Marcelo López Cambronero, Francisco de Vitoria University (Madrid), marcelo.lopez@ufv.es Prof. Enrique Anrubia, CEU Cardenal Herrera Univer…
creator: Scientia et Fides
date: 2023-11-23

Call for Papers: The Dynamic Theodicy Model: Understanding God, Evil and Evolution
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description: Call for papers in the journal Scientia et Fides (ISSN 2300-7648; E-ISSN 2353-5636): The Dynamic Theodicy Model: Understanding God, Evil and Evolution This Special Issue aims to address one of the most intricate questions within the field of theodicy: the reconciliation of God's existence with the prevalence of pain and suffering in the evolutionary journey of life and humanity. How can we justify divine attributes like omniscience, omnipotence, and moral perfection in the context of the suffering and mortality of living beings? We welcome scholarly contributions aimed at reevaluating the intricate interconnections among core concepts like evolution, nature, suffering, pain, values, evil, and goodness. The Dynamic Theodicy Model strives to reveal fresh viewpoints in theodicy that are informed by scientific insights, with the aim of broadening our understanding when considering the intersections of nature, evolution, and faith. Are there prospects for establishing an innovative framework for grasping the nature of pain and suffering? This Special Issue also warmly welcomes contributions related to the cognitive science of religion, particularly its evolutionary dimensions. Contributors are encouraged not to confine themselves solely to philosophical and theological theories but to remain open to scientific insights that prompt a reassessment of traditional theodical viewpoints. Furthermore, the special issue will feature keynote lectures from conferences held in Toruń, Poland, and Rijeka, Croatia, focusing on the project's theme. For additional information about these conferences, please visit the website https://scire.umk.pl/en/. This special issue is published as part of the international project "The Dynamic Theodicy Model: Understanding God, Evil, and Evolution," led by Dr. Piotr Roszak and Dr. Saša Horvat, with the support of the University of Oxford/John Templeton Foundation. The preferred length of the paper is 25 000 characters (space included). Submission de…
creator: Scientia et Fides
date: 2023-09-07

Call for Papers: Metaphysics of science: an important ingredient for what?
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description: Journal Scientia et Fides (Q1 Scopus) is running a special issue on: Metaphysics of science: an important ingredient for what? Metaphysics of Science is concerned with philosophical issues that arise at the intersection of metaphysics, science, and the philosophy of science. It differs, however, from each of them. It is neither primarily concerned with metaphysical questions such as what makes an entity the very entity it is, nor it is concerned with the specific entities postulated by various sciences. The Metaphysics of Science is rather concerned with very abstract and general concepts, such as laws of nature, causation, dispositions, necessity, possibility, probability, natural kinds, essences, reduction, emergence, grounding, space and time, etc. The meaning and extension of these concepts vary from science to science but all of them are present to some degree in all sciences. Many of them are in need of further clarification, since they are tacitly assumed in particular sciences. The Metaphysics of Science is a product of the second half of the 20th century. It was part and parcel of the decline of the Logical Empiricist anti-metaphysical stance. It also followed an evolution in the analytic tradition of philosophy that included the rapid growth of modal logic. The recent proposals for the naturalization of metaphysics in the Metaphysics of Science rests on the fact that the sciences surpass metaphysics in many respects (e.g., respected methods, predictive successes). It may seem then that the dispute over the role of metaphysics has come full circle again. We think that metaphysics of science should not be only a reflection that makes philosophy an ancilla scientiae. As Martial Gueroult pointed out, “it is through philosophy that philosophy must defend itself, and metaphysically that metaphysics must defend itself”. There is thus not only an impact of sciences on metaphysics but also a restriction that metaphysics imposes on the philosophical commitments of s…
creator: Scientia et Fides
date: 2023-02-23