Focus and Scope

DIÁNOIA is published since 1955 by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE). Founded by Eduardo García Máynez and Eduardo Nicol, it is the oldest philosophical journal in Mexico. Since 2001 DIÁNOIA  appears twice a year. Our journal is marked by its pluralism and openness towards all philosophical schools. It aims at promoting high quality philosophical discussions in Spanish attending to the characteristic pluralism of our intellectual traditions and inherent in philosophical activity. We consider our editorial work as a contribution from Mexico to the international philosophical community. We publish only contributions that are the outcome of scholarly research and make an original contribution to current philosophical discussions. Diánoia publishes articles, discussions, critical notes and book reviews which, except for the book reviews, are subject to a strict double blind peer review by specialists in the field.

Peer Review Process

Once a submission has been received it is first assessed by the editor or by a member of the editorial board to determine its suitability for the journal and compliance with the norms established in “author’s guidelines”. If the work is considered appropriate for Diánoia, it moves to the review stage. Diánoia employs a double peer review system, and all our reviewers are national and international specialists of recognized standing in their fields.

Each submission is sent to two reviewers, who may 1) accept it without changes, 2) accept it with minor changes not requiring a second review, 3) condition its acceptance upon the introduction of major changes and a new review, 4) reject it in its current version or 5) reject it. In the latter case, the author cannot resubmit his or her paper even if it is a corrected version. In the event of any discrepancy between the reviewers, a work may be submitted to a third reviewer. However, one negative review may be sufficient for rejection. If an author is required to make extensive changes to his or her work, the new version must undergo a second reading by the original reviewers. In such cases, authors are asked to send a letter listing and explaining all changes introduced in the new version. The Editorial Board will make the final decision on the articles to be published.

Open Access Policy

Based on the conviction that an open access to quality research work increases global knowledge exchange, DIÁNOIA allows free access to all its contents. Following international standards for open access publications, DIÁNOIA also allows for nonprofit purposes the downloading, distribution or printing of any content, though we ask to credit the source when quoting it. Authors are free to disseminate their own works to media outlets (e.g. repositories and personal web pages) with due credit to Diánoia. Please include a direct link to the journal whenever possible.

Ethical Code

Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

• The Editorial Board should publish the description of the peer-review processes in order to allow authors to know the evaluation criteria. The Editorial Board will always be willing to justify in writing any controversy in the evaluation process (among either authors, editors or readers).

 

Responsibilities of the Editor

• The Editor should strive to meet the needs of readers and authors; to constantly improve the journal; to ensure the quality of the material published; to advance academic and scientific standards. Furthermore, the Editor should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

• The Editor’s decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based solely on the paper’s importance, originality, clarity and relevance for the journal. Diánoia only publishes original contributions in Spanish covering all philosophical branches and orientations.

• The Editor should be committed to ensure confidentiality during the whole evaluation process and cannot reveal the identity of the authors to the reviewers, nor the identity of the reviewers to the authors. This is, for Diánoia, the meaning of “double blind peer review”.

• The Editor should be responsible for deciding which papers might be accepted in the journal and the Editorial Committee will make the final decision on the articles to be published.

• The Editor should be responsible for properly informing the author about the editorial process in which the author’s text is involved, as well as the resolutions taken by the Editorial Board.

• The Editor should always evaluate the submitted manuscripts without regard to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political ideology of the authors. 

• Neither the Editor nor any editorial board member should disclose information about a text sent by     any author other than to the corresponding author or reviewers.

• No unpublished material can be used by the Editor for personal research purposes without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review shall be confidential and cannot be used for personal advantage by the Editor. The Editor will always make fair, unbiased decisions and ensure an appropriate and timely pair review process.

 

Responsibilities of authors

• The submission of a  manuscript to Diánoia presupposes the acceptance by the author of the evaluation criteria published by the journal. Authors must ensure that their manuscripts are products of their original work and that all of the information contained in them has been obtained ethically. Authors must ensure that their submissions have not been previously published and are not being considered for publication in another journal or book. A manuscript will be considered as a previously published work when any of the following situations occur:

 

1)    When the full text has already been published.

2)    When large fragments of previously published materials are part of the text sent to the journal.

3)    When the content of the work submitted to the journal has been published fully or partially in editorial memories.

4)    The above criteria apply to previous publications either in printed or electronic format.

• In order to publish their work, authors should strictly follow the “Authors Guidelines” defined by the Editorial Board.

• Authors must submit to Diánoia an original manuscript of their work omitting any personal information (name, adscription, contact information, etc.) as well as any bibliographical reference in which the author’s name appears. Authors must follow all indications in order to ensure confidentiality during the whole evaluation process

• Authors of original manuscripts are required to present a precise description of the work submitted, as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the article. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to allow peer reviewers to evaluate the work properly. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and cannot be accepted under any circumstances. Diánoia reserves the right to veto future submissions by authors who have perpetrated these practices. 

• Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others this must be properly cited. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Consequently, any manuscript that incurs plagiarism will be removed and not considered for publication in Diánoia. 

• Diánoia is committed to publishing only original products of primary research. Accordingly, an author should not submit manuscripts to Diánoia describing —under different titles, structure or presentation— essentially the same research previously published in another journal or primary publication. 

• All relevant sources must be properly quoted. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence or discussions, should not be used without express written permission of the source. 

• Authorship should be limited to only those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the work. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Authors must ensure that all co-authors are included in the article, and that they have all seen and approved the final version of the document and agreed submission for review.

• Authors must mention in their manuscript any financial or interest conflict that could have any influence in the results or interpretation of their work. All sources of financial support for the research project should be made explicit in the manuscript.

• When an author notices a significant error or inaccuracy in the submitted or published text it is his or her obligation to immediately notify this to the Editor of the journal or to the Editorial Board, and to cooperate with the Editor to correct the paper.

  

Responsibilities of reviewers

• Reviewers should be willing to notify the Editor about any unethical conduct of the authors and about any information that may constitute a reason for rejecting a manuscript. They must also be committed to keeping confidential all personal and scientific information contained in the works under review.

• Reviewers should have the journal’s guidelines for evaluating manuscripts. The Editor should provide those guidelines.

• Selected reviewers must notify within five days to the Editor if they are available to review a manuscript.

• A manuscript received for review is a confidential document. Its contents can only be discussed with the explicit authorization of the Editorial Board of Diánoia.

• Reviewers should always submit fair and unbiased evaluations. Any personal attack in a review is inappropriate. Reviewers should be willing to justify in a clear and precise way their opinions and to explain, elaborate or, if necessary, rectify their reviews.

• Any inside information obtained through peer review is confidential and cannot be used for personal advantage by any member of the Editorial Board.

• Reviewers should avoid evaluating a manuscript that, due to its content, may represent a conflict of interest for them. In any such case, Diánoia expects the reviewer to desist from participating in the evaluation process.

Scientific Indexing Services

Indexes and data bases where the journal is included 

SciELO Citation Index en el Web of Science

Sistema de Clasificación de Revistas Mexicanas de Ciencia y Tecnología del Conacyt

SciELO México (Scientific Electronic Library Online)

Redalyc  (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal)

Latindex (Catálogo)

Dialnet

Clase (Citas Latinoamericanas en ciencias Sociales y Humanidades),

Biblat (Bibliografía latinoamericana)

Filos (Bibliografía Filosófica Mexicana)

The Philosopher’s Index

Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory

Free Acces and Publishing

DIÁNOIA will not charge readers for registering in its web page, nor for downloading documents. It will not charge authors for sending, reviewing or publishing their articles.

Permissions and Copyrights

Please send requests for reprinting works published in Diánoia by email to:

Zyanya Ruiz
Jefa del Departamento de Publicaciones
Tel.: (52+55) 5622-7437
correo electrónico: zruiz@filosoficas.unam.mx

Please provide the complete reference of the material you would like to reprint (volume, number, year, author, title, pages) as well as where it will appear. If your request is approved, we will ask you to acknowledge the source. You will also need to send two copies of the volumes in which the material has been reprinted to the library of the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas to the following address:

Biblioteca “Eduardo García Máynez”
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM
Circuito Mtro. Mario de la Cueva s/n
Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, Ciudad de México

Sponsors

• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Journal History

When the Instituto was moved the fourth floor of the Torre de Humanidades in Ciudad Universitaria in 1955, its members decided to create a specialized publication in philosophy after the style of the German philosophical yearbooks before the Second World War. The goal was to create a scientific and international yearbook that could be a forum for the Instituto’s members as well as for the Spanish speaking community at large. Thus was born Diánoia. Philosophy yearbook. Its first director, Eduardo Nicol, wrote the following when introducing the first issue: “[…] we consider that, for the first time, the foundations have been laid —and laid in Mexico— for the creation of a specialized philosophical publication with a scientific and international character” (Nicol, Eduardo, 1955, “Presentación”, Diánoia, 1(1), p.VIII). Founded by Eduardo García Máynez and Eduardo Nicol in 1955, and co-edited by Fondo de Cultura Económica and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Diánoia is the oldest periodical journal of philosophy in México. Since its creation and until 2001, it was the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas’ yearbook.

On the name of the journal, Nicol explains:

"The word “Diánoia” symbolizes both the intention and character of our yearbook. According to Plato, dianoia is the silent dialogue with oneself. Quietness, intimacy, and loneliness are necessary conditions for reflective thought to yield truly scientific outcomes. But Plato also says that thought and word are one and the same thing; therefore, thought is not a pure noein —it is also dianoia—, and the word of reason is not mere logos —it is also dialogos—. All thought is a dialogue. The inception stage in which the soul dialogues silently with itself in intimacy cannot be complete without creative expression —the dialogue with the other souls— in which the authentic community of thought flourishes by pursuing true science. Science —truth— is a common good. Diánoia is at the service of that good.” (Nicol, 1955, pp. VII-IX)

During its first twelve years, Diánoia had three sections: the first one for the research works of the Instituto’s members; the second one, called “Estudios monográficos”, contained contributions from professors from other universities both Mexican and foreign; the third section published book reviews. From the thirteenth year onwards (i.e., from 1968), the first two sections merged under the title “Articles”. Diánoia thus acquired the format of a contemporary philosophy journal in Spanish, open to all philosophical schools, and with a clear predominance of Ibero-American scholars such as Ernesto Garzón Valdés, Antonio Gómez Robledo, Juan Nuño, Ulises Moulines, Ezequiel de Olaso, Alejandro Rossi, Fernando Salmerón, Luis Villoro and Ramón Xirau. Despite this Hispanic predominance, scholars such as Elizabeth Anscombe, Bas van Fraassen, Jürgen Habermas, Friedrich Kambartel, Hilary Putman, Richard Rorty, Wolfgang Stegmüller and Timothy Williamson have also published in the journal. Diánoia appeared annually without interruption during 45 years.

In 2001 the yearbook underwent a major transformation, and Diánoia is published since then twice a year. The editorial board determined that the journal would have a director other than the Instituto’s director, as was customary. Guillermo Hurtado became the first appointed director. The cover and interiors were redesigned, sections on discussions and book reviews were reinforced, and efforts were made to distribute the journal abroad. Diánoia has appeared on time for more than sixty years (except for the year 2000, when the journal’s publication was interrupted due to renovation process). Subsequent directors have been Pedro Stepanenko, Ricardo Salles and Faviola Rivera. The current editor is Teresa Rodríguez.

Diánoia publishes contributions in Spanish, which can be articles, critical notes, discussions, and reviews of books written in any language. All submissions are subject to strict peer review by specialists.