The 2026 (Vol. 6) issue of
Deliberatio: Studies in Contemporary Philosophical Challenges entitled
‘Remembering, Ethics, Witnessing: Memory, Testimony, and Moral Responsibility,’
invites contributions that ask how memory and testimony change when the human witness is no longer the only bearer of traces, wounds, and responsibility. Bringing ethics of remembrance into dialogue with critical posthumanism and metatheoretical reflection, this issue explores how trauma, historical violence, ecological loss, digital archives, AI systems, images, monuments, bodies, places, and more-than-human worlds participate in the fragile work of keeping the past ethically alive. We welcome philosophically engaged papers on witnessing, mourning, denial, justice, moral repair, algorithmic memory, synthetic testimony, ecological remembrance, collective responsibility, and the theoretical frameworks through which these questions are understood, as well as the duties we may owe not only to the absent, but also to future generations and to the vulnerable human and non-human worlds that inherit our histories.
All submitted articles and other written materials are subjected to a double-blind peer-review procedure. For further information about the submitted articles drafting guidelines, reviewing process, privacy policy, license agreement and submissions process, please refer to the Submission Guidelines section of the site.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 15 September 2026
Notification of acceptance: 20 October 2026
Final revised manuscripts due: 30 November 2026
Expected publication: 31 December 2026
Please send your article proposals to deliberatio@e-uvt.ro. Please include in the subject line: 2026 Issue Submission – Remembering, Ethics, Witnessing.