Scientific Foundations for Sustainable, Responsible and Harmonious Freedom
Freedom.Science is an interdisciplinary open-access academic journal dedicated to the scientific study of freedom as an emergent property of safe, integrated, sustainable, responsible and trustworthy socio-technical systems.
The journal investigates the conditions under which freedom can emerge, be sustained and be protected.
Safety is not the opposite of freedom.
Safety is the condition that allows meaningful freedom to emerge.
About the Journal
Aims & Scope
Author Guidelines
The Freedom.Science Perspective
Freedom is often discussed as a political, legal or philosophical ideal. Freedom.Science approaches freedom also as a scientific question:
Under what conditions can sustainable, responsible and harmonious freedom emerge?
The journal studies freedom not merely as isolated individual choice, but as an emergent societal property. Freedom depends on safety, responsibility, trust, dignity, resilient systems and sustainable forms of governance.
Freedom.Science therefore connects engineering, safety science, governance, ethics, systems thinking, law, artificial intelligence, human rights, democracy, institutional trust and societal resilience.
Foundational Proposition
Freedom.Science is founded on the proposition that safety and freedom should not be treated as opposites.
Safety is not the opposite of freedom.
Safety is the condition that allows meaningful freedom to emerge.
This proposition does not reduce freedom to safety. Rather, it recognises that without safety, trust, responsibility, dignity and resilience, freedom becomes fragile, unequal or merely formal.
The journal therefore studies freedom as something that must be designed, protected, governed and sustained.
Journal Information
- Journal title: Freedom.Science
- Subtitle: Journal of Harmonious Freedom
- Long title: Scientific Foundations for Sustainable, Responsible and Harmonious Freedom
- Publisher: NEDION Press
- Country of publication: The Netherlands
- Access model: Open access
- Publication model: Continuous publication
- e-ISSN: 3118-1724
- DOI records: DOI information for individual publications is maintained in the journal’s authoritative OJS record when assigned and verified.
- Article Processing Charges: No APCs are required during the founding phase.
- Status: Founding journal / soft launch
What We Publish
Freedom.Science welcomes scholarly contributions that help develop the scientific foundations of sustainable, responsible and harmonious freedom.
The journal publishes:
- Research articles
- Conceptual papers
- Perspective papers
- Position papers
- Review papers
- Methods papers
- Editorials
- Invited commentaries
- Book reviews
- Letters and discussion pieces
The journal is especially interested in work that connects freedom with safety, responsibility, human dignity, institutional trust, responsible AI, digital society, governance, constitutional safety, ethical technology and societal resilience.
Founding Theme
Safety to Freedom: Scientific Foundations for Harmonious Freedom
Freedom.Science begins from the idea that safety, integration, sustainability, responsibility and harmony are not restrictions on freedom, but enabling conditions for freedom.
The founding phase welcomes contributions on:
- freedom as an emergent societal property;
- safety as a condition for meaningful freedom;
- responsibility and freedom;
- human dignity;
- institutional trust;
- constitutional safety;
- responsible AI and freedom;
- digital freedom;
- freedom by design;
- responsibility by design;
- sustainable governance;
- societal resilience.
Our Role in Safety to Freedom
Freedom.Science provides the direction-and-purpose dimension within the NEDION Safety to Freedom™ pathway.
Safety.Science develops evidence and the conditions required for dependable safety. Integration.Engineering explores how people, systems, technologies, knowledge, organisations and values can be connected into coherent arrangements. Freedom.Science explores the purposes, responsibilities, relationships and conditions through which safety and integration can contribute to harmonious freedom and human flourishing.
The shared proposition is:
Safety provides the foundation. Integration provides the enabling mechanism. Freedom provides the direction and purpose.
SafetyToFreedom.org is the primary public interface for the wider pathway. Freedom.Science remains a distinct scientific platform and peer-reviewed journal with protected editorial independence.
Public engagement
For accessible questions, short statements and visual communication exploring the relationship between safety and meaningful freedom, visit Safe2Free®, a public-engagement initiative connected to the wider Safety to Freedom™ pathway.
Beyond the Journal
Freedom.Science is also developing carefully as a wider scientific knowledge platform concerned with harmonious freedom, responsibility and ethics, human flourishing, social systems, societal development, and relationships among safety, integration, responsibility and freedom.
During the current controlled soft launch, the peer-reviewed journal remains the primary public function. Wider platform content will be introduced gradually through approved projects, educational resources and pathway connections.
Publisher
Freedom.Science is published by NEDION Press, the publishing function and imprint of Stichting NEDION.
NEDION Press provides shared publishing governance, infrastructure, metadata and production support.
Editorial decisions remain under the authority of Freedom.Science editors and are protected from institutional or programme control.