Journal of Evidential and Paraconsistent Reasoning

About the journal

JEPR publishes formal, methodological and empirical research on how incomplete, conflicting and underdetermined evidence is represented, measured and used in decisions by human and artificial systems. Contributions examine the conditions under which epistemic distinctions preserve information, predict observable behaviour or improve decisions, and the conditions under which those distinctions fail or add no practical value. The journal welcomes relevant approaches from logic, statistics, measurement theory and artificial intelligence, with explicit connections to existing literature and appropriate comparisons.

Three editorial rules

• Assessable contribution. Each submission states a clear claim about representation, measurement or decision and provides appropriate evidence. Formal work includes a precise result and an interpretation or example; empirical work includes an operational definition and reproducible analysis.
• Informative positive and negative findings. Evidence for a distinction, evidence against it and evidence identifying its limits receive the same standards. Equivalence claims require a justified margin and suitable analysis; lack of statistical significance alone is insufficient.
• Verifiable support. Referees receive supporting data, code, proofs or computational artefacts, subject to justified restrictions. Reports state which results were independently checked and which could not be checked.

Sections

• Semantics of typed indeterminacy
• Abstention and risk-coverage
• Disagreement as signal
• Belief revision and epistemic update
• Audit of uncertainty frameworks
• Decision under indeterminacy
• Negative results
• Evidential reasoning in educational and social measurement

Editorial areas

Logic and foundations; measurement and statistics; AI evaluation and selective prediction; education and social measurement.

At a glance

Call for papers · Author guidelines · For reviewers · Editorial team