Aims & Scope
Freedom.Science aims to establish freedom as a rigorous interdisciplinary field of scientific inquiry.
The journal studies the conditions under which sustainable, responsible and harmonious freedom can emerge, be sustained and be protected.
Freedom.Science welcomes contributions that connect freedom with safety, integration, sustainability, responsibility, institutional trust, human dignity, technology, governance and societal resilience.
The journal’s central proposition is:
Safety is not the opposite of freedom.
Safety is the condition that allows meaningful freedom to emerge.
Scope
Freedom.Science welcomes work on topics including:
- Foundations of freedom
- Harmonious freedom
- Safety to freedom
- Constitutional safety
- Human dignity
- Responsible AI
- AI governance
- Digital freedom
- Cybersecurity and freedom
- Institutional trust
- Democracy and resilience
- Human rights and responsible governance
- Safety governance
- Ethical technology
- Technology assessment
- Risk governance
- Societal resilience
- Freedom by design
- Safety by design
- Responsibility by design
- Human-centred engineering
- Peace engineering
- Systems thinking
- Integration science
- Engineering ethics
- Responsible innovation
- Sustainable governance
Contribution Types
Freedom.Science accepts several types of contributions, including:
- Research articles
- Conceptual papers
- Perspective papers
- Position papers
- Methods papers
- Review papers
- Editorials
- Invited commentaries
- Book reviews
- Letters and discussion pieces
- Selected work-in-progress papers
Submissions should be clear, responsible, well-structured and relevant to the scientific study of sustainable, responsible and harmonious freedom.
Freedom.Science is intended for:
- researchers and lecturers;
- engineers and systems thinkers;
- safety scientists;
- governance and policy researchers;
- AI and technology ethics scholars;
- legal and constitutional scholars;
- human rights researchers;
- public-sector professionals;
- responsible innovation researchers;
- risk governance specialists;
- resilience researchers;
- doctoral researchers and early-career scholars;
- interdisciplinary practitioners.
The journal particularly welcomes contributions that bridge academic research, professional practice and societal reflection.