v2018i1


Volume 1, Issue 1

From the Editors

We are excited to release this inaugural issue of Commu-
nications of the Blyth Institute. The Blyth Institute has
been in operation for eight years, and we have continued
to expand our services to the academic community. Our
hope is that Communications serves as a helpful platform
both among the members of the Institute and the wider
community.

1 Motivation for the Journal

Prior to this journal, The Blyth Institute has facilitated
research through conferences and edited volumes, includ-
ing Engineering and the Ultimate: An Interdisciplinary In-
vestigation of Order and Design in Nature and Craft and
Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies.
Both of these volumes contain groundbreaking work in a
variety of fields.

As The Blyth Institute has grown, we have also found the
need to communicate early work and intermediate results in
a formal, reliable method. Originally, we considered merely
publishing these on the website as technical reports. How-
ever, we recognized that many of our colleagues, especially
those performing interdisciplinary work or those not cur-
rently affiliated with an academic institution, had similar
needs. From this the idea for Communications was born.

2 Call for Papers

Communications accepts papers in a wide variety of fields
including most sciences, mathematics, and philosophy. We
have a particular focus on non-reductionist perspectives (in-
cluding criticisms of non-reductionist perspectives) in these
various fields.

Additionally, we will often suggest areas which we think de-
serve more focus, and where papers of such focus will receive
priority treatment in the submission process. Currently, we
are seeking papers in two areas.

First, we are seeking papers related to non-reductionist ap-
proaches to economics and business. Examples of such

approaches can be found in Chapter 14 (“Other Non-
Naturalistic Methodologies in Modern Practice”) of Nat-
uralism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies, as
well as the note “The Wealth Pies of Plato’s Library” in the
present issue.

Second, we are seeking papers that discuss the concept of
finiteness and infinity, especially in relationship to the phi-
losophy of mind. Topics dealing in areas such as Gödel
incompleteness, Turing Oracles, intensional vs. extensional
definitions, human creativity, and questions about the re-
ality or non-reality of inifinities are all of interest.

3 The Current Issue

The present issue sports a wide variety of topics, includ-
ing evolution, computer science, mathematics, philosophy
of science, and moral reasoning, as well as interdisciplinary
papers connecting them together.

We have not established a rhythm for publication, but
our hope is to be able to publish at least twice-yearly.
If you would like to subscribe to the journal, you can
subscribe or purchase individual articles at journals.
blythinstitute.org.

Sincerely,

The Editors