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Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Overview
The Australasian Journal of Philosophy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy and "one of the oldest English-language philosophy journals in the world". It was established in 1923 as The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, obtaining its current title in 1947.
It is published by Routledge on behalf of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. In 2007, it was rated "A" in the European Reference Index in the Humanities. It is abstracted and indexed by the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Historical Abstracts, Scopus, Philosopher's Index, ProQuest databases, and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities.
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By the educative arts philosophy may generate methods of utilizing the energies of human beings in accord with serious and thoughtful conceptions of life. Education is the laboratory in which philosophic distinctions become concrete and are tested. It is suggestive that European philosophy originated (among the Athenians) under the direct pressure of educational questions. The earlier history of philosophy…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Australasian Journal of Philosophy is.
When we come to the idea of the soul, we have left the circle of purely impersonal forces. But above the soul the Australian religions already recognize mythical personalities of a superior order: spirits, civilizing heroes and even gods who are properly so-called. While it will be unnecessary to enter into the detail of the mythologies, we must at least seek the form in which these three categories of spiritual…
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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Modern philosophic thought has been so preoccupied with these puzzles of epistemology and the disputes between realist and idealist, between phenomenalist and absolutist, that many students are at a loss to know what would be left for philosophy if there were removed both the metaphysical task of distinguishing between the noumenal and phenomenal worlds and the epistemological task of telling how a separate subject…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Australasian Journal of Philosophy
- Graham Oppy
- David Malet Armstrong
- J. N. Findlay
- John Passmore
- Jonathan Schaffer
- Charles Leonard Hamblin
- Helen Beebee
- Graham Nerlich
- R. F. Holland
Related ideas
- Analytic philosophy
- John Anderson (philosopher)
- J. L. Mackie
- Australian National University
- University of Sydney
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- J. J. C. Smart
- Oxford University Press
- Routledge
- John Passmore
- Peter Forrest (philosopher)
- Brian David Ellis
- Francis Anderson (philosopher)
- Graham Nerlich
Place in the tradition
Part of Australian philosophy.
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