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World Book Day

In celebration of World Book Day 2024, we are offering our clients 20% off all monograph editing, translation, and indexing, as well as any book proposal bookings made today. To make use of this offer, please contact us today only, quoting WBD20.

Lex Academic x Ratio

We are delighted to be collaborating with the international journal of analytic philosophy, Ratio, giving its submitting authors a 15% discount on our esteemed philosophy proofreading services. Our professional philosophy editors, who can provide everything from pristine formatting, technical proofreading, to substantive language editing (as needed), have guided hundreds of papers through the rigours of peer […]

SWIP-Analytic Spain Essay Prize Winner 2022-23

The SWIP-Analytic Spain Lex Academic Essay Prize (2022-23) is awarded to Violeta Conde Borrego (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela).

Penn State and Purdue

We are extremely proud to announce that Lex Academic® is now an official supplier to Penn State University and Purdue University.

Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading

We are proud to be joining the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading as a Corporate Member.

SWIP Italia Lex Academic Essay Prize

SWIP ITALIA LEX ACADEMIC ESSAY PRIZE – 2024 EDITION SWIP Italia, in collaboration with Rivista di Estetica and Lex Academic, is happy to announce the “SWIP Italia – Lex Academic Essay Prize 2024”. The award will be conferred to the best feminist philosophy essay authored either by an Italian woman philosopher or by a woman […]

East & Southeast Asia Philosophy Publishing Workshop

The Lex Academic Philosophy Publishing Workshop: East & Southeast Asia Date: 24 May, 2023 Time: 18:00–19:30 (Japan); 17.00–18.30 (Taiwan); 16.00–17.30 (Thailand); 10.00–11.30 (UK). Participants Kanit (Mitinunwong) Sirichan (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Kengo Miyazono (Hokkaido University, Japan; Editor, Philosophical Psychology; Associate Editor, Philosophical Explorations) Sascha Benjamin Fink (University of Leipzig, Germany; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Philosophy and the Mind Sciences) Ying-Tung […]

2024 Lex Academic SIFA/Argumenta Prize

  Following the success of the 2023 Lex Academic Prize, won by Dr Federica Berdini for her article, ‘Coping: A Philosophical Exploration’, we are pleased to announce the 2024 Lex Academic Prize in the philosophy of action and ethics in the analytic tradition. This prize is jointly sponsored by Lex Academic, the Italian Society of Analytic […]

SIFA Prize-Winner 2023

We are very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 Lex Academic Prize in the philosophy of action and ethics in the analytic tradition is Dr Federica Berdini (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto) for her article, "Coping: A Philosophical Exploration".

The Lex Academic Philosophical Psychology Essay Prize

We are delighted to be offering the Lex Academic® Essay Prize in association with Philosophical Psychology‘s Special Issue “Understanding Bias“. The Prize will be awarded to the author of the best essay on the understanding of linguistic discrimination, a philosophical preoccupation of both the journal and Lex Academic. Benefits include: Editorial services on the prize-winning […]

Philosophers’ Imprint x Lex Academic

  We are proud to be an official copyeditor of Philosophers’ Imprint, the esteemed peer-refereed journal  founded by Stephen Darwall and J. David Velleman and published by Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan. The Imprint was established in the spirit of the Open Access movement, whose mission is to promote a future in which funds […]

SWIP-Analytic Spain Lex Academic Essay Prize 2022

In collaboration with FiloLab UGR and Teorema, we are thrilled to announce the SWIP-Analytic España Lex Academic Essay Prize 2022. 

Lex Academic in the Media

  ‘Lex Academic a Success in Any Language‘, Business Weekly, 6 Oct, 2021. ‘Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy‘, Daily Nous, 13 Oct, 2021. ‘Unconscious Bias or Deliberate Gatekeeping‘, The Philosophers’ Magazine, Oct 2021. ‘Analytic Philosophy Has a Language Problem‘, IAI News, 7 April, 2022. ‘Reframing The Academic Realm With Lex Academic CEO Louise Chapman‘, […]

Expanding the Canon – ECAP 11

We are thrilled to announced that Lex Academic will be sponsoring an invited symposium on "Expanding the Canon” with Ruth Hagengruber (Germany) and Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Denmark) at ECAP 11.

World Philosophy Day 2022

  In anticipation of World Philosophy Day 2022 on 17 November 2022, we are pleased to offer new clients submitting work in philosophy a 10% discount across all services from Monday 14th to Sunday 20th November. Thanks to being spearheaded by two Oxbridge-educated academic philosophers, Lex Academic is uniquely positioned to offer rigorous philosophy editing […]

Paul Craddock

We are pleased to announce that Dr Paul Craddock is joining our team as Chief Copywriter.

PURA ERC x Lex Academic

We are overjoyed to have been contracted as the copy editors for the PURA ancient lexicography ERC Consolidator project at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The project is devoted to the theories of linguistic purism developed in ancient Greek culture and how they were received in later ages. We were recruited for it on the basis of our unparalleled acquaintance with classical philology.

SIFA x Lex Academic x Argumenta

We are pleased  to announce that the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (SIFA), Lex Academic, and the journal Argumenta are jointly sponsoring an annual prize in philosophy of action and ethics in the analytic tradition.

The Alan Turing Institute x Lex Academic

We are extremely proud to announce that Lex Academic® is now an official supplier to The Alan Turing Institute. We look forward to supporting the Institute with our expert academic editing and translation services.

Lex Academic x British Wittgenstein Society

Lex Academic® champions research that addresses the multifaceted challenges of the 21st Century. This is why we are proud to support the important work carried out by British Wittgenstein Society through our sponsorship of its website.

Lex Academic x e-Glow

We are honoured to be an official founding partner of the European Institute for Global Well-Being. 

The 2022 Lex Academic Classics Scholarship | Lex Academic Blog

We are delighted to announce that the 2022 winner of the international Lex Academic Classics Scholarship is Leah Wild from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.

Lex Academic x Journal of Applied Philosophy

We are delighted to be collaborating with the Journal of Applied Philosophy, offering its submitting authors a 15% discount on our esteemed English language editing services, from light-touch copy-editing to more substantive language editing.  

Lex Academic x Utilitas

We are delighted to be officially partnering with the journal Utilitas, offering its submitting authors a 15% discount on our esteemed philosophical editing services. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/information/instructions-contributors