Historia de la revista

Journal History

It began as Peras.

A group of undergraduate and graduate students and researchers from various public universities in Mexico were exploring humanities topics related to reason and will. In 2017, they joined forces to develop a journal called Peras (πέρας), part of the Open Journal System (OJS) family.

Based on the premise that, just as reason has pursued its phenomenological process to define the strata of knowledge—perception, intuition, and finally abstraction—will must similarly pursue its phenomenological process to shape knowledge that accounts for discourses and practices concerning limits within global frameworks of violence, migration, injustice, and state and non-state authoritarianism.

To undertake the task of disseminating research findings (review papers), the team of collaborators began developing a Research Seminar on “Excessive Violence in Mexico.” In this seminar, a concept was adopted that encompassed an ideology against violence, a concept with philosophical roots that implied an ethics regarding the knowledge of violent action. This is how the idea emerged in a single word of Greek origin (πέρας), meaning limit; it denotes a limit of a reality or a process, although this word is also used to mark an extreme, an end or conclusion of an era, a form of reasoning, and the beginning of another. Its objects of study are violence, canon, convention, ordeal, law, barriers, history, progress, and capital.

There are two types of limit: sacred limit and secular limit. Both ontological conditions of limit create paradoxes where a foundational violence appears, marking a new procedure for subjective and intersubjective relations.

Likewise, inspired by R. Calasso's book *The Ruin of Kasch* (2000: 222), a warning was issued regarding the establishment of discursive practices concerning limits: “The history of the Enlightenment calmly denies limits. Since its god is convention, since everything is material upon which convention operates, the most that can be done is to change the convention each time resistance appears. But all conventions share a faith in convention, and material can one day rebel precisely against that faith. Then the limit appears, a figure now exotic, unveiled and venerated in Greece. Today we face it again. It is the most unsettling figure, the most ambiguous memory.”

The first issue of the journal *πέρας* appeared at the end of 2018, setting precedents for a critical examination of the concept of limits in knowledge processes.

The purpose of a Public Science Communication Agency.

In 2019, a group of professors from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico created the digital space (https://cienciayfilosofia.org/) using OJS software to maintain a permanent forum on the role of Public Communication Agency for Science in disseminating academic work in the Humanities. This digital space was conceived as a laboratory for discussion on the practices of reading, writing, and reviewing research results, with the aim of strengthening critical, anti-hegemonic knowledge of scientific methodologies and their scope.

The effort to control academic and scientific writing was to prevail in a sense of agency in which the author becomes the primary disseminator of their findings, assuming that their efforts would be reflected in regional repositories in Latin America.

To this end, a collaborative group of professors from other universities was asked to contribute, and volumes 2 and 3 were published, adopting the merger of Science and Philosophy with the ISSN 2594-2204, which they had already adopted.

The Science and Philosophy Project | Journal of the Information and Communication Society

Once the collaborative work began, based on the theoretical foundations that underpin the shared ideology, the merger of both transdisciplinary groups resulted in a united effort in areas that affect political, legal, economic, educational, and cultural power.

This is achieved through scientific and research writing, of a theoretical nature, reflecting on foundations and new paradigms to contextualize educational practices from current perspectives.

The main requirement for publishing in Science and Philosophy | Journal of the Information and Communication Society is that the article represents a genuine scientific contribution and demonstrates the relevance of the topic addressed to the current context and time. to the presentation of the state of the art of knowledge in the area of ​​the adopted theoretical-conceptual reference; to the consistency of the development of the article in relation to the principles of scientific construction of knowledge;