Philosophy and Public Affairs

SJR Rank #1,192H-index: 91SJR: 2.204Best quartile: Q1APC: US$3,460

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Country

United Kingdom

Type

journal

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Subject Categories

History and Philosophy of ScienceQ1
Political Science and International RelationsQ1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q1

Areas: Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences

Most published research topics

Political Philosophy and EthicsHuman auditory perception and evaluationLegal case studies and regulationsLegal Cases and CommentaryPhilosophical Ethics and TheoryFree Will and AgencyDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesWar, Ethics, and JustificationEducational Robotics and EngineeringEpistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Source: OpenAlex

Publication Statistics

Documents per Year

Detailed Information

ISSN

1088-4963, 0048-3915

SJR Best Quartile

Region

Western Europe

Citations per Document (2 years)

2.55

References per Document

63.25

Coverage

1973-1982, 1984-1986, 1988-2001, 2003-2026

Scope

Issues of public concern often have an important philosophical dimension. Philosophy & Public Affairs is published in the belief that a philosophical examination of these issues can contribute to their clarification and to their resolution. It welcomes philosophical discussion of substantive legal, social, and political problems, as well as discussions of the more abstract questions to which they give rise. In addition, it aims to publish studies of the moral and intellectual history of such problems. Philosophy & Public Affairs is designed to fill the need for a venue in which philosophers with different viewpoints and philosophically inclined writers from various disciplines-including law, political science, economics.

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