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Conatus (journal)

journal of philosophy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ115802438 ↗
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Conatus: Journal of Philosophy is a biannual peer-reviewed open-access academic journal of philosophy. It was established in 2016 by the Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory (Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) in collaboration with the Greek National Documentation Centre. It publishes original philosophical articles on theoretical and applied issues. The founder and current editor-in-chief is Evangelos D. Protopapadakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).

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The journal publishes original research articles, critical discussions, book reviews, and letters to the editor.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conatus (journal)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.