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Contributions, whether papers or discussion notes, are welcome and should be sent to the Editor:

Professor G. A. J. Rogers
Philosophy
SPIRE
Keele University
Staffordshire ST5 5BG
UK

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Details on electronic submission.

Quotations when long should be inset; when short, in single quotation marks. Spelling should follow the Oxford English Dictionary, and arrangement H. Hart, Rules for Compositors (Oxford, 1983). The Editor may alter manuscripts whenever necessary to make them conform to the stylistic and bibliographical conventions of the journal.

All references should be rigorously documented and listed separately, double spaced, and ordered alphabetically. References should conform with the following examples:

Books

Barnes, J. (ed.) The Complete Works of Aristotle (Chichester: Princeton University Press, 1986).

Chapters in Books

Rorty, A. 'The place of contemplation in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics', in Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, edited by A. Rorty (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980) 286-8.

Articles in Periodicals

Ayers, M. R. 'Locke versus Aristotle on Natural Kinds', Journal of Philosophy, 78 (1981) No. 5: 247-72.

Citations of primary texts should be standard edition. Citations within the notes should be as follows:

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dougald Murdoch (Cambridge, 1984), Vol. II, p. 50.

Michael R. Ayers, 'Locke versus Aristotle on Natural Kinds', Journal of Philosophy, 78 (1981) No. 5: 247-72.

Richard H. Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza (London, 1979) 82-3.

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