Flipping Dialectica

making an established journal fully, aka "Platinum" Open Access

The association Philosophie.ch publishes Dialectica, a general analytic philosophy journal and the official organ of the European Society of Analytic Philosophy. Between 2004 and 2019, Dialectica was published by Blackwell-Wiley. As of 2020, Dialectica is available in full Open Access.


An Open Access Publishing House

Through the "philosophers' workbench" project, Philosophie.ch has become an Open Access Publishing House. For Dialectica, but hopefully soon for other humanities journals as well, we have developed 

  • the "fishpond", an editorial management system for triple-blind refereeing; 
  • the "md workflow", a set of tools for the professional copy-editing of humanties manuscripts and the production of beautiful pdf and html articles, journal issues and edited collections;
  • the "Open Manual of Style", a manual for external copy-editors of markdown documents;
  • the "Open Access toolkit", a documentation and explanation of the Dialectica flipping process, that should help other humanities journals to efficiently and successfully make the transition to real, full (aka Platinum, Diamond) Open Access.

In addition to the journal, Philosophie.ch also publishes the "Dialectica library", a book series, and the "Dialectica bibliography", a more-or-less complete bibliography of the entire philosophical literature.