Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The editorial team accepts for publication articles which a) present innovative thought experiments along with their philosophical conclusions and b) analyze and discuss thought experiments found in the literature, especially within the pages of LM.
Each text is published in two language versions: Polish and English.
During the text submission process, we deposit the file in the following formats: doc, docx, odt, rtf.
The file should contain at least the following elements: title of the work, abstract (length: minimum 500 characters including spaces), keywords (at least 3), the body of the article [definition of the problem, formulation of the thesis, formulation of the experiment (in the case of 1a above) or appropriate argumentation (in the case of 1b above), a discussion of anticipated objections is preferred, conclusion], complete reference bibliography, arranged in alphabetical order (see point).
The editorial team employs a double-blind peer review model. Therefore, in the file of the article (including its metadata), we do not include information that directly reveals the identity of the author. The author's name, academic degree, affiliation details (university, institute), email address, ORCID identifier, and a brief biography (not exceeding 500 characters, including spaces) should be placed in a separate document titled 'Author Personal Data.
The abstract should define the problem addressed in the article, indicate the aim of the article, and outline the approach to achieving this aim (methodology and individual steps). It should not resemble an excerpt from the text. We recommend a meta-language style, meaning the abstract should discuss the text itself rather than the subject matter addressed in the text.
Length of the text: up to 20,000 characters, including spaces (half an author's sheet).
We use the APA7 bibliographic description style.
Substantive and lexical footnotes are placed as footnotes at the bottom of the page.
We limit text formatting in the text editor to a minimum. Document format: A4. Margins: standard. We use the Georgia font. Font size for the main text: 12 pt, line spacing: 1.5. Font size for footnotes: 10 pt, line spacing: 1.
Text emphasis (emphases) should be formatted in italics.

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The publisher publishes texts in the journal under the libre open access formula – with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. For the reader, this means that the content of the journal is available free of charge. Users can read, download, copy, print, search, share on the same terms as the text originally published, and use the full texts for any legally permitted purpose without needing to seek permission from the publisher or author. However, users are obliged to attribute the authorship of the text and provide information about the license. It is also good practice to indicate the place of first publication. This remains in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

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