American Philosophical Quarterly
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Since its inauguration in 1964, the American Philosophical Quarterly (APQ) has established itself as one of the principal English vehicles for the publication of scholarly work in philosophy. The whole of each issue—printed in a large-page, double-column format—is given to substantial articles; from time to time there are also "state of the art" surveys of recent work on particular topics. The editorial policy is to publish work of high quality, regardless of the school of thought from which it derives.
APQ is published by the University of Illinois Press on behalf of North American Philosophical Publications.
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Editors
Editor
Patrick Grim
University of Michigan
Center for Study of Complex Systems
americanphilquarterly@gmail.com
Incoming Editor
Ali Hasan
Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa
English-Philosophy Bldg — room 167
University of Iowa
251 W Avenue
Iowa City, IA 52241
Consultants
- Robert Francis Almeder, Georgia State University
- Nomy Arpaly, Brown University
- Bradley Armour-Garb, SUNY Albany
- Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame
- Terence Cuneo, University of Vermont
- Laura Fearnley, University of York
- Jeremy Goodman, Johns Hopkins
- Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Baylor University
- Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University
- Marc Lange, University of North Carolina
- Alfred Mele, Florida State University
- Paul Moser, Loyola University Chicago
- Ronald R. Sundstrom, University of San Francisco
- Neil Tennant, Ohio State University
- Patrick Toner, Wake Forest College
- Nathan Wildman, Tilburg University
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Upon publication, authors will receive a link to access their article free for three months. They are permitted to share the link (not the PDF) with friends, colleagues, and on social media.
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Submissions
The American Philosophical Quarterly welcomes original articles that advance our understanding of philosophical problems or positions, on any aspect of philosophy apart from history. Articles are subject to blind review and evaluated based on originality, rigor, depth of insight, mastery of relevant literature, and lucidity of style. The journal does not publish news items, book reviews, critical notices, or "discussion notes" (short or long). The journal does not consider articles under consideration elsewhere.
Contributions should be 2,000 to 7,000 words in length, include an informative abstract of fewer than 125 words, up to 5 key words, and be formatted as a Word document (or a file type compatible with MS Word). All files should be double spaced throughout. Endnotes are preferred to footnotes and should be used sparingly. Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (18th edition) in preparing manuscripts for APQ. In order to ensure anonymity of submissions, authors using Word are advised to go to "File. . .Properties. . ." and delete all author-identifying information, under all tabs.
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Articles should be submitted electronically to the APQ online manuscript submission system. This secure, personalized resource will allow you to track your manuscript through each step of the review and acceptance process. To begin, click on the link below to set up your personal account and upload your submission. Your transmitted material will be reviewed as soon as possible.
The APQ will not publish material that has already appeared elsewhere. This is not at odds with authors sharing their papers with selected individuals whose comments they would welcome or whom they wish for other reasons to inform about their work. But it precludes pre-publication with broadcast dissemination, alike in print or electronically in open-access forums such as Academia.edu.
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