Arché Submissions and Forthcoming Issue
“Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions actually mean.”
— Moritz Schlick, Die Wende der Philosophie
Forthcoming Issue:
No. 11, Fall 2026
Submit to Arché Fall ’26 Edition No. 11
We will open our submissions for our Fall 2026 general topic issue on August 30th, 2026.
Boston University’s student-led journal of philosophy, Arché, is currently seeking submissions for Fall 2026 issue, No. 11. This issue is a general topic issue and, as such, is not devoted to explorations of a special topic or theme in a particular area of philosophy. We are open to submissions of various formats, including but not limited to research papers, critical analyses, conference presentation materials, interviews, and original essays. By showcasing exemplary student-authored works, we intend to support the intellectual and philosophical development of emerging scholars, literary critics, philosophers, and intellectuals across other disciplines.
Submissions should not exceed 7,000 words and should follow the citation guidelines of Chicago’s Notes and Bibliography style. Any submissions that do not meet the word count will be automatic rejections. To help reduce the effects of bias in our reading and scoring of submissions, we ask that you please remove any identifying information; relevant details are recorded by this form. Please do not submit more than 3 papers for editorial review. Submission will open on August 30th, 2026 and our deadline to submit will be September 30th, 2026 at 11:59pm.
We will not review papers that have been submitted to multiple journals. It is considered an unethical practice to submit the same paper to two or more journals because it wastes time and energy for editorial boards. We will not accept work generated by AI and passed off as original.
Topics may address, but are not limited to, the following categories: political philosophy; epistemology; metaphysics; ethics; feminist philosophy; philosophy of science; literary semantics and pragmatics; theories of interpretation, hermeneutics, and theories of language; language formalization and literary style; paralanguage in literature; text linguistics and narratology; mathematical logic and grammar; rhetoric in philosophy; cognitive poetics and stylistics; or philosophical aspects of translation.
Undergraduate students, graduate students, recent graduates, and non-students are invited to submit their work to Arché. Those with further questions are encouraged to explore this website and/or query the editors at arche@bu.edu.