Submissions
Essentia Foundation accepts essay submissions from qualified scholars, journalists, philosophers, scientists and academics in the fields of foundations of physics, neuroscience, psychology (including clinical psychology), psychiatry, analytic philosophy of mind, analytic ontology, continental philosophy and others, provided that the subject matter is directly relevant to our goals.
Because Essentia Foundation is a registered public-interest non-profit committed to offering its contents to the widest possible audience for free, we are not in a position to offer payment for any contributed material.
Please notice that we cannot process submissions that do not comply fully with the instructions below. At present, our submission queue is several months long. We will respond to your submission once we’ve gotten to it.
Criteria
- You comply fully with these instructions (we will not respond to submissions that fail to do so).
- You are a qualified scholar, journalist, scientist, philosopher or academic in a pertinent field.
- The subject of your essay is directly relevant to Essentia Foundation’s goals.
- The essay is written in English, following American spelling.
- The essay contains between 1,000 and 3,000 words in total.
- The essay is scholarly rigorous and accurate, but also written for the general educated public, with a bare minimum of jargon.
- You write with short, direct sentences.
- No tables or diagrams; the essay is self-explanatory.
- No footnotes and minimal use of parenthetical clarifications.
- The submission file is editable (MS Word or Apple Pages) and has no custom formatting, apart from emphasis through italics. The file must be submitted as an email attachment. Google Docs or links of any sort won’t be opened.
- Bibliographical references are inserted as numbered endnotes in plain text (as opposed to e.g., the custom endnote format of Word for Windows).
- In your first submission, you attach a short (~150 words) bio with focus on your academic credentials and a high-resolution face picture (if your submission is accepted, we will use them in your personal ‘Author’s page’).
Become an author
Please note that submitting an essay automatically grants to Essentia Foundation a free, irrevocable, permanent, non-exclusive license under the copyright thereto, to publish said submission through any means, electronic or otherwise, worldwide and in any language, for the duration of the copyright, both in text and audio formats. By submitting an essay you will also be representing that you have the right to grant said license to Essentia Foundation and are not infringing the copyright of any third party. Finally, Essentia Foundation reserves the right to decide on the final title of the essay and associated illustration(s), as well as to perform minor editing of the text for readability and to conform to our house style.
Submit your essay by enclosing it in an email to submissions@essentiafoundation.org. Messages sent to this address that aren’t essay submissions will have their originating address permanently blocked.
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