Are you familiar with the philosophy journals published by the University of Illinois Press? For World Philosophy Day, celebrate by learning a bit more about our journals, reading a featured article, and perhaps even submitting your own work for consideration. You can even suggest one (or all!) of the journals to your library with our Library Request Form, or you can get your own subscription at each journal’s webpage.
Editor: Roger Ward
The Pluralist upholds the Socratic dictum of self-knowledge and the love of wisdom as the purpose of philosophy. It seeks to express philosophical insights and concerns humanely and with an eye to literary as well as philosophical excellence, but technical papers are welcome. The Pluralist is a forum for discussion of diverse philosophical standpoints and pluralism’s merits.
- Featured Article: “John Dewey and India: Expanding the John Dewey-Bhimrao Ambedkar Story” by Scott R. Stroud
- What did Dewey know of India and its traditions and philosophies? Did the pragmatist sage of Morningside Heights think about the topics that drove Ambedkar’s project after his time with Dewey? Might Ambedkar have altered the course of Dewey’s thought?
Editor: Daniel A. Dombrowski
The mandate of Process Studies is to explore Whiteheadian-Hartshornean process thought at an advanced level and as it appears in related philosophies and theologies, applying the Whiteheadian-Hartshornean conceptuality to a wide range of other fields.
- Featured Article: “Sand Talk: Process Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledges” by Julien Tempone-Wiltshire
- Yunkaporta’s text carves out a language of resistance to the McDonaldization of Indigenous research. While historic scholarly engagement with Aboriginal culture has overemphasized content, Yunkaporta demonstrates how this has occurred to the exclusion of the processes of Indigenous knowledge transmission and creation. Yet a process view requires engagement with the how, not only with the what.
Journal of Aesthetic Education
Editor: Tracie Costantino
Journal of Aesthetic Education is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning, welcoming articles on philosophical aesthetics and education.
- Featured Article: “The Transformative Power of Literary Perspectives” by Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
- This article employs the concept of “transformative experience” to develop a radical version of aesthetic cognitivism, according to which engaging with literary perspectives might lead the reader to experience not only an epistemic but also a personal transformation.
Editor: Jason Brennan
Public Affairs Quarterly publishes work in all areas of practically engaged normative philosophy, broadly understood to include normative work on issues of public concern in applied moral, social, political, and legal philosophy.
- Featured Open Access Article: “Why Not Effective Altruism?” by Richard Yetter Chappell
- This paper addresses some common misconceptions and argues that the core “beneficentric” ideas of effective altruism are both excellent and widely neglected. Reasonable people may disagree on details of implementation, but all should share the basic goals or values underlying effective altruism.
American Journal of Theology and Philosophy
Editor: Gary Slater
The American Journal of Theology & Philosophy is a scholarly journal dedicated to the creative interchange of ideas between theologians and philosophers on some of the most critical intellectual and ethical issues of our time.
- Featured Free Article (Until Dec. 31, 2024): “The Influence of Personalism on Harkness and King, Their Pacifism, and Their Persistence” by Natalya A. Cherry
- In this article, Cherry identifies Personalist-influenced models of God common to Georgia Harkness, the first woman appointed a theology professor in an American theological school, and Martin Luther King, Jr. that appear to undergird their commitments to nonviolence. Though she is not claiming that Harkness had a direct influence on King, her article considers their influences and their models of God, the confluences of their commitments, and the outlook for nonviolence.
American Philosophical Quarterly
Editor: Patrick Grim
American Philosophical Quarterly publishes original articles that advance our understanding of philosophical problems or positions, on any aspect of philosophy apart from history. The editorial policy is to publish work of high quality, regardless of the school of thought from which it derives.
- Featured Open Access Article: “Making a Murderer: How Risk Assessment Tools May Produce Rather Than Predict Criminal Behavior” by Donal Khosrowi and Philippe van Basshuysen
- Algorithmic risk assessment tools are increasingly used in criminal justice systems to predict the risk of defendants to reoffend in the future. This paper argues that these tools may not only predict recidivism, but may themselves causally induce recidivism through self-fulfilling predictions.
- Check out part one of the special issue series on The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
History of Philosophy Quarterly
Editor: James Petrik
History of Philosophy Quarterly specializes in papers that cultivate philosophical history with a strong interaction between contemporary and historical concerns. Contributors treat the work of past philosophers not only in terms of historical inquiry, but also as a means of dealing with issues of ongoing philosophical concern.
- Featured Article: “Spinozian Civic Virtues and Epistemic Democracy” by Gonzalo Bustamante and Leandro De Brasi
- This article rereads Benedict de Spinoza and recent interpretations of him as an epistemic democrat through the prism of contemporary debate on the conditions for deliberation in a democracy.