Focus and scope

The Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica is the periodical publication of the School of Philosophy and the Institute of Philosophical Research of the University of Costa Rica. It appears three times a year hosting all currents of Costa Rican and world philosophical thought.

Its objective is precisely to make known and discuss through its pages philosophical thought and in general critical and creative to a public specialized in philosophy, in Costa Rica and the world. Therefore, it is aimed at both the academic community and the general public and covers all thematic areas of philosophy. In order to stimulate the creation of philosophical thought, contributions to our Magazine are welcome as an input to promote a tolerant, critical and open society.

Open access policy

As a publication financed with public funds of the inhabitants of Costa Rica, the Journal promotes free and immediate access to its contents within the current "Open Access". Starting from the 150 issue on, the Journal follows Creative Commons Atribución-No Comercial-Sin Obra Derivada 3.0 Costa Rica LICENSE FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF ARTICLES.

Publication fees

The journal does not charge any fees for publishing an article.

Publishing entity

University of Costa Rica. PO Box 11501-2060

Arbitration system

The Revista de Filosofía requires original and unpublished content from authors. The review process is done by blind peers: the academic peers who evaluate the articles are anonymous to the authors; likewise, the authors are anonymous to the peers.

The articles are sent through the OJS platform, where the editorial team carries out a first review to make sure that the document complies with the established guidelines; Once verified, an external reviewer is sought to ask him to give an opinion on the article through a form for reviewers. This can: a) approve the article in its current state, b) request modifications, or c) reject the publication of the article.

All works published in the Dossier and Articles sections are reviewed by external reviewers. In the case of the dossiers, the guest editor is the one who is in charge of supervising and managing the opinion of the works. The presentations of the dossiers are not judged.

Code of ethics

The Revista de Filosofía relies on the standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (Code of Conduct and Best Practices Guidelines for Journals Editors, COPE) to ensure compliance with responsible editorial practices.

Measures for the detection of plagiarism

For plagiarism detection, the specialized software Turnitin is used. Any content containing elements of plagiarism will be rejected.

Digital preservation policies

To preserve the documents, the Revista de Filosofía uses the LOCKSS system that guarantees the journal a permanent and secure archive. LOCKSS is an open source program developed by the Stanford University Library that allows libraries to curate selected web journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect new published content and archive it. Each archive is continually validated against records from other libraries, so any damaged or lost content can be restored using those records or the journal itself.

In addition, backups are kept in the cloud of all documents received, in the process of being published, and those already published as a measure to ensure the preservation of all documents. A public file that contains a backup of the documents published by the Journal can be accessed at the following web address:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4r9p9q6dz52bhnr/AAAkkdFuYOw3U3J5C8AHYS8fa?dl=0

Interoperability protocol

The Revista de Filosofía uses metatags Doublin Core, Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) for interoperability and thereby improve the distribution of content on the Internet. Our OAI-PMH address is https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/oai

Presence in indexes and directories

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History of the Journal

Since 1957, the year of its creation, the Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica has published, without interruptions, articles of great academic quality in all areas of philosophy. Currently the Magazine publishes three numbers a year (January-April, May-August, September-December), quarterly.

Two words about the Journal of Philosophy of the University of Costa Rica

By: Mr. Rodrigo Facio, Former Chancellor of the University of Costa Rica

Symbolic seems to me the appearance of the Revista de Filosofía in the days in which the doors of the new Faculty of Sciences and Letters of our University are opened to the Costa Rican youth. Because the purpose of the new Faculty of its General Studies Department, along with other no less ambitious ones, is to give students a general vision of the world, of life, of culture, and to teach them how to achieve knowledge of the Corsican Conceptual and methodological precision, intellectual rigor, is required. And in this sense, then, its task is deeply philosophical, since Philosophy considers the knowledge of the general, of the universal, and it proposes it through the paths of the exercise of reason.

On the other hand, the inclusion of General Studies in university programs, the reaction against premature specializations, the desire to integrate particular knowledge, the search for a humanistic and spiritual position to incorporate the purely functional or pragmatic, all This, in a certain way, responds to the rebirth -if we are allowed to call it that- of Philosophy and the increasingly explicit recognition of its necessity and its importance as the foundation and finish line of all scientific work, after that stage of proscription of the philosophical discipline that some author characterizes as "laboratory terrorism".

The task of human and academic formation that the Faculty of Sciences and Letters will soon undertake will therefore have an indisputable philosophical nature: it will have the purpose -proposed at least- of preparing the young man for the "profession of man", before other university entities begin to prepare him for special professions. That of teaching him to know himself as a being of soul, flesh and blood, with spiritual and material needs, with a history and a future, surrounded by a biological and social material world that at the same time imposes limitations and offers him opportunities and rights. That of showing him the radical individual dimension of him insofar as he has to carve out his destiny for himself and freely, and insofar as he is deserving of respect without any limitations other than the respect due to others. That of teaching him to pose problems and solve them, to doubt and think, and to take ethically and rationally justified positions. That of making him recognize his historical reason in the miraculous and multiple work of culture. That of helping him understand the society in which he lives to provide him with a clear concept of his obligations and his rights before others, and a generous and constructive spirit with which he will have to participate in the permanent work of social improvement. That of preparing him for the exercise -free, intelligent, tolerant- of the triple university, Costa Rican and human citizenship.

It is a complex and delicate task that the new Faculty may not be able to fully comply with immediately, and perhaps not even immediately; but the important thing is to be on the right path, to have a star to guide our steps.

In short, the essential concern of the beginning Faculty, like the concern of Philosophy, is man. Not man in the abstract, a non-existent thing, a thing of fiction or artifice. But the man who lives, who lives with his past, with his environment, with his neighbors, and with his ideas and his hopes. As the philosopher of Transcendental Humanism would say, "man and his circumstance". For all this, I find it promising that the existence of the Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica begins now. She can be very useful helping in the fulfillment of the tasks entrusted to Sciences and Letters. It can become an example, spur, projection.

But it can also be, as the content of its first installment already reveals, a valuable instrument for collecting and disseminating philosophical thought that is developed at the University and outside it, in the country and beyond. Maintaining the rigor that all university publications demand, it can reach heights and prestige, covering with the latter, at the same time, the Faculty of Sciences and Letters and the University as a whole.

But the selection of the material must always be made with demanding criteria, and in the rejection of what does not meet the previously established conditions of excellence, one must act without fear of even falling into lack of pity. What is of authentic philosophical lineage must also be distinguished, whether it is the contribution of a student, a beginner, a specialist, or an "intellectual", from what is pure speculation devoid of a backbone, sterile flowery verbiage, terminological cover without internal solidity. And I allow myself to make the warning -although I recognize that it is unnecessary given the seriousness of the directors of the Rev

directors of the Magazine - because on many occasions this is the result of the combination of the unimpeded flight of the Latino mentality, the literary luxuriance native to the tropics, and the unsuspecting complacency of certain audiences. And we need to prevent that danger, just as in the Faculty of Sciences and Letters we need to prevent that of a resonant and hollow pseudo-humanism, if we want to have an authentic Faculty of Sciences and Letters, and a real Philosophy Magazine.

In this issue we have had the wisdom to include an original study by the eminent professor and treatise writer on the History of Philosophy Rodolfo Mondolfo. This is your generous cooperation with the Magazine.

And I speak of success, not only for what the study and its firm are worth in themselves, but for what it represents as the intention of the directors to establish levels of excellence for this publication.

Doctor Mondolfo is, in fact, one of the most renowned contemporary thinkers in the field of the History of Philosophy: penetrating in analysis, rigorous in method, champion himself of "the intrepid investigation of the truth, free from all prejudice", which he admired so much and highlighted in his luminous study on Giordano Bruno.

Later works by our people follow, and I intentionally use the possessive to shelter, along with Barahona, Olarte, Dengo de Vargas, Bonilla, Carr, Wender, Carro, Constantino Láscaris Comneno, the young Spanish professor hired by the University to direct the courses of Introduction to Philosophy at the Faculty of Sciences and Letters, who is already Costa Rican at least in the minds of all of us who have been able to appreciate, in the few months in which he has lived with us, the delicate way in which he tries to adapt to the national way of being, thinking and behaving, in order to render to full satisfaction, both academically and humanly, the type of services that the institution had in mind when establishing the new Faculty. For him and his collaborators, the voice of gratitude from the University, and the best wishes for the triumph of this his creature.

And he concludes this number first with the publication and commentary on unpublished texts and documents, some chronicles of philosophical concern in the country and abroad, and a rich bibliography of Costa Rican and foreign contributions.

The purpose of the Magazine is ambitious, but it is well oriented; the team behind her is youthful, but responsible. And the plan is certainly good.

I only want to finish, stop for a few moments in the pages of the Chronicle Section in which the background of philosophical studies at the University is scrutinized, going back in its search to the University of Santo Tomás. I want to dwell on them to say that I cordially and emotionally sympathize with the attempt, because -as I have said elsewhere- "every act of acknowledgment of what our ancestors have done is fair, because no generation makes the world, but simply continues, and ultimately it is only vanity of vanities to believe that ours is really new under the sun, and every act of recognition of past tasks is also educational, because only by exalting the historical continuity of the efforts of one generation and another on homeland, nationality becomes aware of as a living and permanent program of responsibilities".

And it occurs to me to think, due to this idea of historical continuity in the efforts of some and others, how satisfied Don Tomás de Acosta would be, one of the best Governors of the Province of Costa Rica, if he read this Magazine and observed the enthusiasm of the young people who group around him, he, who in the early years of the 19th century, could not get a professor of Philosophy to come and take charge of that chair, established for the first time in the Sanctuary of Los Angeles in Carthage, despite having promised to pay the salary, within the penury of the time, with funds from his own pocket...

And how much that young Nicaraguan bachelor, much discussed in our political history, Rafael Francisco Osejo, would also enjoy doing it, who in 1814, at the request of the progressive San José City Council, helped found the Santo Tomás Teaching House in this city and dictated in it, for the first time in Costa Rican history, a chair of Philosophy...

And how joyful Don Nicolás Gallegos Castro, Doctor of Philosophy and tenth Rector of the University of Santo Tomás, would be filled with joy, who in 1846 published -and it was one of the first publications made in the country- his ELEMENTARY LESSONS FROM THE FIRST TWO PARTS OF PHILOSOPHY, EXTRACTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS FOR THE USE OF THE YOUTH OF COSTA RICA.

And how many illustrious professors, eminent thinkers, and culture enthusiasts would participate in the jubilation with which the authorities of the University today greet this first installment of the Revista de Filosofía, who in other hours dreamed the same dream of a Costa Rica more cultured, wiser, more spiritual.

In Revista de Filosofía, Vol. 1, No. 1, JANUARY-JUNE, 1957, pp. 3-6.

Directors of the Journal of Philosophy of the University of Costa Rica:

Dr. Enrique Macaya (January-June) 1957

Dr. Constantino Láscaris 1957-1973

Dr. Rafael Ángel Herra 1973-1998

Lic. Guillermo Coronado 1999-2013

Dr. Juan Diego Moya Bedoya 2013-2016

Dr. George García Quesada (July) 2018-

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