Preface to Volume 56

It is with great pleasure that we present volume 56 of the Danish Yearbook of Philosophy. This spring issue, vol. 56, no. 1 (2023), is a general issue containing four articles and four book reviews with no common theme. The autumn issue, vol. 56, no. 2 (2023), will be a special issue on applied philosophy following a call for articles within this field by our colleagues at the Centre for Applied Philosophy at Aalborg University, edited by Jacob Bo Lautrup Kristensen, with an introduction coauthored by Kristensen, Antje Gimmler, and Phillip Højme.1 “Applied Philosophy” was also the overall theme for the annual meeting of the Danish Philosophical Society in March 2021, which was organized and hosted by the aforementioned center but ultimately had to be held via Zoom due to yet another wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Danish philosophical community owes a lot to our colleagues in Aalborg for their persistent efforts to successfully hold the society’s traditional annual meeting despite all the difficulties during this period—difficulties that we will do well to remember, but which we hopefully nevertheless can consign to history. Despite the challenges, the Yearbook thus continues the format first presented in 2021,2 dedicating a special issue to the overall theme of the society’s annual meeting.3 The theme of the most recent annual meeting, held in March 2023, was “The Nature of Nature,” hosted by the Philosophy of Education research unit and the Danish Philosophy of Education Association at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. In continuation of the meeting, there is an open call for submissions for a special issue of the Yearbook on “The Nature of Nature,” edited by Sune Frølund and Jon Auring Grimm from the research unit. The call will remain open until autumn 2023. This meeting also hosted a parallel session on “The Nature of Reproduction and the Public Sphere,” resulting in a call for papers for another special issue of the Yearbook edited by Lucrecia Paz Burges Cruz, Tomeu Sales Gelabert, and