About Freedom.Science
Freedom.Science is an emerging scientific knowledge platform and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to harmonious freedom, responsibility and human flourishing.
During its current controlled soft launch, the journal remains the primary public function while the broader scientific platform is introduced gradually.
The journal investigates the conditions under which freedom can emerge, be sustained and be protected in complex societies.
Rather than treating freedom only as a political, legal or philosophical concept, Freedom.Science studies freedom as an emergent property of safe, integrated, sustainable, responsible and trustworthy socio-technical systems.
The journal is founded on the proposition that safety is not the opposite of freedom. Safety is the condition that allows meaningful freedom to emerge.
Freedom.Science creates a scholarly space where engineering, safety science, governance, ethics, law, artificial intelligence, human dignity, democracy, institutional trust and societal resilience can be studied together.
Mission
The mission of Freedom.Science is to help establish freedom as a rigorous interdisciplinary field of scientific inquiry.
The journal aims to develop scientific foundations for understanding how freedom becomes possible, sustainable and responsible in real societies.
Freedom.Science does not aim to replace existing philosophical, legal or political traditions. Instead, it connects those traditions with systems thinking, safety science, engineering, governance, ethics, technology assessment, AI and societal resilience.
Position within the NEDION Ecosystem
Freedom.Science forms the direction-and-purpose domain of NEDION’s principal scientific pathway:
Safety.Science → Integration.Engineering → Freedom.Science
Safety.Science addresses the evidence, concepts and conditions required to establish dependable safety.
Integration.Engineering addresses how people, systems, technologies, organisations, knowledge, processes and values can be connected into coherent functioning arrangements.
Freedom.Science addresses harmonious freedom, responsibility, ethics, relationships, human flourishing and the purposes toward which safe and integrated systems should contribute.
Freedom.Science therefore studies freedom not simply as the absence of limits, but as a human and societal condition whose relationship with safety, integration, responsibility and harmony can be investigated scientifically.
Journal at a Glance
- 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.
Relationship with Safety to Freedom™
Safety to Freedom™ is the strategic pathway, integrative framework and public programme of NEDION Foundation.
SafetyToFreedom.org is its primary public pathway interface. It explains and connects the wider progression across safety, integration, responsibility, harmony, freedom and human flourishing.
Freedom.Science has a distinct scientific and scholarly role. It investigates the purposes, responsibilities, relationships and conditions through which safety and integration can contribute to harmonious freedom and human flourishing.
This distinction allows the wider pathway to be communicated publicly while preserving the scientific identity and editorial independence of Freedom.Science.