This special issue of Res Cogitans presents a selection of the papers presented at the conference Frontiers in the philosophy of literature, which was held at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense from 25-26^th September 2015. The conference was funded by the Danish Research Council for Independence Research – Humanities and hosted by the Department for the Study of Culture.

This special edition of Res Cogitans contains the contributions of the five participants in the session “Naturfilosofi” (Philosophy of Nature), which took place at University of Southern Denmark on the 8th of March 2013 as a part of the annual meeting of the Danish Philosophical Society.

This special issue of Res Cogitans takes up the question of historicity for renewed engagement.