Call for papers for the conference proceedings

Physics and Reality: International Conference on Philosophy of Physics
4–6 June 2024, University of Helsinki, Finland

Proceedings of PHYSICS AND REALITY 2024 will be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK. Each participant who gave a speech or presented a poster at the conference is invited to submit a single article. A speaker must be the first author in the article; participation to the conference as a speaker is not required from the other authors. A speaker of the conference may also be an author in another article, although not the first author.

The planned schedule, with extended deadline:

  • Deadline for the papers: 30 September 2024
  • Deadline for the reviews: 31 October 2024.
  • Deadline for the corrected and final manuscripts: 15 November 2024.
  • Deadline for the reviews of the corrections: 30 November 2024
  • Submission of the final papers to JPCS by the editor: 5 December 2024

The process is planned to proceed as follows: All authors should submit their papers by September 30, 2024. All submissions will undergo a double-anonymous review, so you should submit two versions: an unredacted manuscript, which may be published as is (when complemented with IOP headings), and an anonymized manuscript for the reviewers. After the submission, the goal is to assign each paper to two reviewers, who are primarily members of the program committee, keynote speakers, and plenary speakers of the conference. Reviews should be submitted by October 31, 2024. An article is either accepted with or without revisions, or it is rejected. If your article is accepted without revisions or is rejected, no further action is required on your part. If your article is accepted with revisions, you must submit the corrected paper by November 15, 2024. You may embed the corrections in the text, and you may also add a "Commentary" section as the last section of the paper, where you address the reviewers' remarks. The final reviews of the corrected papers —whose purpose is to check if the changes required in the first round have been made or are addressed in a separate Commentary section— should be submitted by November 30, 2024. Finally, the editor aims to submit the papers to JPCS by December 5, 2024. IOP Press guarantees publication within three months of delivery.

The length of your article should not exceed 20 pages, but this requirement is not absolute. The article must be typeset in the JPCS format and exported as a PDF. Word and LaTeX templates are available from the link below.

The submission and review process will take place on the Morressier platform. Detailed instructions have been sent to the participants on 19 June 2024, and on 27 September 2024. 

For queries about the proceedings, contact the proceedings editor Avril Styrman avril.styrman@helsinki.fi