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Philosophy & Public Affairs

Overview

Philosophy & Public Affairs is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by John Wiley & Sons. It publishes philosophical articles on legal, social, and political issues. The journal was established in 1972 under the sponsorship of Princeton University Press. Blackwell (now Wiley) became the journal's publisher in 2004. The current editor-in-chief is Jason Brennan (Georgetown University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.000, ranking it 100th out of 183 journals in the category "Political Science" and 20th out of 56 journals in the category "Ethics".

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1. For popular use this definition is amply sufficient, but it still falls short of the complete accuracy required for the purposes of the philosopher. Political Economy does not treat of the production and distribution of wealth in all states of mankind, but only in what is termed the social state; nor so far as they depend upon the laws of human nature, but only so…

   John Stuart Mill, Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy

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2. It is suggestive that European philosophy originated (among the Athenians) under the direct pressure of educational questions. The earlier history of philosophy, developed by the Greeks in Asia Minor and Italy, so far as its range of topics is concerned, is mainly a chapter in the history of science rather than of philosophy as that word is understood to-day. It had nature for its subject, and speculated as to how…

   John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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3. The dignity of philosophy may rise in proportion as the submission to public opinion and the danger to liberty increase; it was at its highest during the convulsions marking the fall of the Roman Republic, and in the time of the Empire, when the names of both philosophy and history became _ingrata principibus nomina_. Brutus shows its dignity better than Plato; his was a time when ethics cease to have commonplaces.

   Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II

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Philosophers who discussed Philosophy & Public Affairs

• Roger Scruton
• Thomas Nagel
• Judith Jarvis Thomson
• Ronald Dworkin
• T. M. Scanlon
• Frances Kamm
• A. John Simmons

Related ideas

• Princeton University Press
• Philosophy
• Public policy
• Thomas Nagel
• Peer review
• T. M. Scanlon
• Wiley-Blackwell
• Wiley (publisher)

Opposing perspectives

• Socialism

Place in the tradition

Part of Consequentialism.

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