PHI 220 Honors: Ethics and Society (Brennan-Loudoun)

For the most part, contemporary philosophical research is conducted by way of essay-length papers published in academic journals. Philosophers do still publish monographs in order to provide a longer or more detailed argument on a subject—but many monographs begin their lives as journal articles. The American Philosophical Association keeps a fairly thorough (though still incomplete) list of journals here. Below is an incomplete selection of some of the more well-regarded generalist journals (which publish essays on a wide range of philosophical topics for a general audience) and specialty journals.

Generalist Journals:

• The Philosophical Review – Access to everything but the most recent six years through JSTOR.
• Noûs – Access to everything but the most recent six years through JSTOR (and up to the most recent year through EBSCO).
• Philosophers’ Imprint – Entirely open access.
• Journal of Philosophy – Access to everything but the most recent six years through JSTOR.
• Philosophy and Phenomenological Research – Access to everything but the most recent six years through JSTOR (and everything from 2001 to the present through Wiley Online Library).

Ethics Journals:

• Ethics – Access to everything but the most recent six years through JSTOR (and up to the most recent year through EBSCO).
• Journal of Moral Philosophy – Access to everything but the most recent three years through EBSCO.
• Journal of Applied Philosophy – Access from 1997 to the present through Wiley Online Library.

Political Philosophy Journals:

• Political Philosophy – Entirely open access (this is a new journal, created when the former editors of The Journal of Political Philosophy resigned en masse in 2023).
• Free & Equal – Entirely open access (this is a new journal, created when the former editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs resigned en masse in 2024).
• Journal of Political Philosophy – Access from 1997 to the present through Wiley Online Library (though no new issues have been published since the mass resignation of the editorial staff in 2023).
• Philosophy & Public Affairs – Access to everything but the most recent three years through JSTOR (and everything from 1997 to the present through Wiley Online Library. A new editorial staff took up the journal in late 2024 after the mass resignation of the previous editorial staff).

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metaphysics AND epistemology

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"Zeno's Paradox" 

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ethic*