The Journal of Philosophy is a monthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 on philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

. Its stated purpose is "To publish philosophical articles of current interest and encourage the interchange of ideas, especially the exploration of the borderline between philosophy and other disciplines." The journal was established in 1904 as The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods and obtained its present name in 1923.

Notable articles

• "Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes" (1956) - W.V.O. Quine
• "Actions, Reasons, and Causes" (1963) - Donald Davidson
  Donald Davidson (philosopher)
  Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher born in Springfield, Massachusetts, who served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton...
  
  
• "An Argument for the Identity Theory" (1966) - David Kellogg Lewis
  David Kellogg Lewis
  David Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton from 1970 until his death. He is also closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than thirty years...
  
  
• "Ontological Relativity" (1968) - W.V.O. Quine
• "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility" (1969) - Harry Frankfurt
  Harry Frankfurt
  Harry Gordon Frankfurt is an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University and has previously taught at Yale University and Rockefeller University. He obtained his B.A. in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1954 from...
  
  
• "Epistemic Operators" (1970) - Fred Dretske
  Fred Dretske
  Frederick Irwin Dretske is a philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His more recent work centers on conscious experience and self-knowledge. Additionally, he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1994...
  
  
• "Intentional Systems" (1971) - Daniel C. Dennett
• "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" (1971) - Harry Frankfurt
• "Causation, Nomic Subsumption, and the Concept of Event" (1973) - Jaegwon Kim
  Jaegwon Kim
  Jaegwon Kim is a Korean American philosopher currently working at Brown University. He is best known for his work on mental causation and the mind-body problem. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian metaphysics, the limitations of strict psychophysical identity, supervenience,...
  
  
• "Meaning and Reference" (1973) - Hilary Putnam
  Hilary Putnam
  Hilary Whitehall Putnam is an American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science...
  
  
• "Outline of a theory of truth" (1975) - Saul Kripke
  Saul Kripke
  Saul Aaron Kripke is an American philosopher and logician. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center...
  
  
• "Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory" (1980) - John Rawls
  John Rawls
  John Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University....
  
  
• "Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes" (1981) - Paul M. Churchland
• "Skepticism about Practical Reason" (1986) - Christine Korsgaard
  Christine Korsgaard
  Christine Marion Korsgaard is an American philosopher and academic whose main scholarly interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relation of issues in moral philosophy to issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of personal identity; the theory of personal...
  
  
• "Individualism and Self-Knowledge" (1988) - Tyler Burge
  Tyler Burge
  Tyler Burge is a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. He has made contributions to several areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. In the history of philosophy, he has published articles on the philosophy of Gottlob Frege...
  
  
• "Why Abortion is Immoral" (1989) - Don Marquis
  Don Marquis (philosopher)
  Don Marquis is an American philosopher whose main academic interests are in ethics and medical ethics. Marquis is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas....