Scientific Foundations for Sustainable, Responsible and Harmonious Freedom

Freedom.Science is an interdisciplinary open-access academic journal dedicated to the scientific study of freedom as an emergent property of safe, integrated, sustainable, responsible and trustworthy socio-technical systems.

The journal investigates the conditions under which freedom can emerge, be sustained and be protected.

Safety is not the opposite of freedom.
Safety is the condition that allows meaningful freedom to emerge.

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The Freedom.Science Perspective

Freedom is often discussed as a political, legal or philosophical ideal. Freedom.Science approaches freedom also as a scientific question:

Under what conditions can sustainable, responsible and harmonious freedom emerge?

The journal studies freedom not merely as isolated individual choice, but as an emergent societal property. Freedom depends on safety, responsibility, trust, dignity, resilient systems and sustainable forms of governance.

Freedom.Science therefore connects engineering, safety science, governance, ethics, systems thinking, law, artificial intelligence, human rights, democracy, institutional trust and societal resilience.

Foundational Proposition

Freedom.Science is founded on the proposition that safety and freedom should not be treated as opposites.

Safety is not the opposite of freedom.
Safety is the condition that allows meaningful freedom to emerge.

This proposition does not reduce freedom to safety. Rather, it recognises that without safety, trust, responsibility, dignity and resilience, freedom becomes fragile, unequal or merely formal.

The journal therefore studies freedom as something that must be designed, protected, governed and sustained.

Journal Information

  • Journal title: Freedom.Science
  • Subtitle: Journal of Harmonious Freedom
  • Long title: Scientific Foundations for Sustainable, Responsible and Harmonious Freedom
  • Publisher: NEDION Press
  • Country of publication: The Netherlands
  • Access model: Open access
  • Publication model: Continuous publication
  • ISSN: To be requested
  • Journal DOI: 10.65620/freedomscience
  • Article Processing Charges: No APCs are required during the founding phase.
  • Status: Founding journal / soft launch

What We Publish

Freedom.Science welcomes scholarly contributions that help develop the scientific foundations of sustainable, responsible and harmonious freedom.

The journal publishes:

  • Research articles
  • Conceptual papers
  • Perspective papers
  • Position papers
  • Review papers
  • Methods papers
  • Editorials
  • Invited commentaries
  • Book reviews
  • Letters and discussion pieces
  • Selected work-in-progress papers

The journal is especially interested in work that connects freedom with safety, responsibility, human dignity, institutional trust, responsible AI, digital society, governance, constitutional safety, ethical technology and societal resilience.

The founding phase welcomes contributions on:

  • freedom as an emergent societal property;
  • safety as a condition for meaningful freedom;
  • responsibility and freedom;
  • human dignity;
  • institutional trust;
  • constitutional safety;
  • responsible AI and freedom;
  • digital freedom;
  • freedom by design;
  • responsibility by design;
  • sustainable governance;
  • societal resilience.

Founding Theme

Safety to Freedom: Scientific Foundations for Harmonious Freedom

Freedom.Science begins from the idea that safety, integration, sustainability, responsibility and harmony are not restrictions on freedom, but enabling conditions for freedom.

The founding phase welcomes contributions on:

  • freedom as an emergent societal property;
  • safety as a condition for meaningful freedom;
  • responsibility and freedom;
  • human dignity;
  • institutional trust;
  • constitutional safety;
  • responsible AI and freedom;
  • digital freedom;
  • freedom by design;
  • responsibility by design;
  • sustainable governance;
  • societal resilience.

Relation to the Safety-to-Freedom Pathway

Freedom.Science is part of the wider NEDION safety-to-freedom pathway.

The journal is conceptually connected to SafetyToFreedom.org, which serves as a public and educational platform explaining how non-negotiable safety can make meaningful freedom possible.

Freedom.Science serves a different role.

It is the academic journal dedicated to the scientific study of sustainable, responsible and harmonious freedom.

Within the wider pathway:

Safety.Foundation develops foundational safety principles.
Safety.Observer supports observation, signals and societal learning.
Safety.Science develops scientific knowledge on integrated safety.
SafetyToFreedom.org explains the public bridge from safety to freedom.
Freedom.Science develops the scientific foundations of harmonious freedom.

Together, these initiatives support the proposition:

Safety is not the opposite of freedom.
Safety is the condition that allows meaningful freedom to emerge.

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Publisher

Freedom.Science is published by NEDION Press, the publishing imprint of Stichting NEDION.

NEDION Press provides publishing infrastructure, policy frameworks, metadata support and preservation support.

Editorial decisions remain the responsibility of Freedom.Science.