Focus and Scope
Aurora is the online graduate journal of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The aim of the journal is to publish high quality papers by philosophers starting their career. In so doing, the journal promotes serious academic work within the international postgraduate community. Aurora welcomes work by postgraduate students in any area of philosophy, in an analytic style, broadly construed. Papers submitted will be reviewed by faculty members of the Graduate Center.
Section Policies
Articles
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Book Reviews
The purpose of a book review is to help readers decide whether or not a book is one they may be interested in reading. Consequently it should be both a report on the thesis and arguments of a book and an assessment of those arguments. Criticism or praise for a book should be backed up by argument.
Reviews should be no more than 2000 words in length, and be written in a clear, concise and accessible manner. Quotations, citations and bibliography, if reference is made to works not under review, should follow Aurora’s general formatting requirements described above.
Authors may keep the review copies they receive, however if it is not possible to finish the review within six months please return the book to us so that it can be made available to somebody else.
- Tudor Protopopescu, Book Reviews Editor
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CUNY Graduate Conference Proceedings
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Peer Review Process
Pre-Review:
All papers submitted to Aurora will be pre-reviewed by the editorial board in order to ensure that the submission meets the basic requirements for entering the reviewing process. Four criteria will be applied:
Clarity of Expression
Clearly defined thesis/argumentative structure
Suitability of content for publication given the aims of the journal
Other. E.g. The paper has been published elsewhere, it is too long, etc.
Submissions from Graduate Center Students:
Once a submission has been approved by the editorial board, it will be sent to two members of the faculty in the philosophy department of the Graduate Center. The criteria that will be considered and evaluated by the referees are:
Strengths of the paper
Weaknesses of the paper
Importance of the topic
Original Contribution to the understanding of the topic
Completeness of the discussion
Readability and structure
The referee can either recommend the paper for publication without any corrections, recommend it but only after certain specified corrections are considered, or recommend that the paper is not published. The final decision rests with the editorial board.
External Submissions:
Papers submitted by students from other universities will go through a two-stage reviewing process, in order to relieve pressure on faculty reviewers, for the number of external submissions exceeds the number of internal ones. First, each paper will be reviewed by two students from the philosophy department at the Graduate Center. The editorial board will then select a few of the best papers that have positive reviews and send them to two members of the faculty from the Graduate Center. The criteria applied by student and faculty reviewers to non-Graduate Center submissions are the same as above.
Books for Review
In addition to the books received reviewers can request books from the Harvard, Cambridge or Routledge/Taylor Francis catalogues, as long as the books are published in the last three or four years.
Books Received:
Algra, Barnes, Masfeld, Schofield (eds), (2005), "The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy", Cambridge University Press.
Benjamin, Walter, (2006) "Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938", eds, Eiland, H. and Jennings M. W., Harvard University Press.
Carone, Gabriela, (2005), "Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimension", Cambridge University Press.
McCoy, Marina, (2007), "Plato on Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists", Cambridge University Press.
Mendelsohn, Richard L., (2005), "The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege", Cambridge University Press.
Noddings, Nel, (2006), "Critical Lessons What Our Schools Should Teach", Cambridge University Press.
Howland, Jacob, (2006) "Kierkegaard and Socrates, A Study in Philosophy and Faith", Cambridge University Press.
Pakaluk, Michael (2005), "Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, An Introduction", Cambridge University Press.
Rickless, Samuel C. (2007), "Plato's Forms in Transition. A Reading of Parmenides", Cambridge University Press.