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The past two decades have seen a resurgence of interest, both in activist and academic circles, in Anarchist politics and theory, with new and challenging work from several differ­ent directions. Renewed academic interest in Anarchism has drawn attention to the import­ance, vitality and philosophical fruitfulness of key Anarchist arguments and concepts – such as the conflict between authority and auto­nomy; tensions between collectivism and individualism; critical challenges to hier­archy, centralized power, top-down control and author­itarian conceptions of represent­ation; and the development of concepts of spontaneous social order, decentralized consensus, and the knowledge problems and ideological myth­olog­izing inherent in relations or structures of domination.

Most of this discussion has, naturally enough, taken place within the field of political and moral philosophy. But Anarchist theory (like marxist or feminist theory) embodies more than a policy orientation or a system of moral or political theses. The Anarchist tradition offers a wide-ranging, diverse and vigorously argued literature, con­cern­ing the nature and foundations of human society, with impli­cat­ions for every aspect of philosophy, including not only political and moral theory but also aesthetics, social-science methodology, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, religion, history, lang­uage and logic. We are looking for papers that address possible connections, approaches, chal­lenges or insights that anarchy and its concept­ual environs may suggest for philosophy broad­ly – or that philosophy may suggest for anarchy – beyond the familiar territory of polit­ical and moral theory, espec­ially in such areas as epistemology, philosophy of language, philo­sophy of logic, and metaphilosophy or philosophical method. Papers from all analytical and critical standpoints (both with regard to philosophy and with regard to Anarchism) are welcome.