| Philosophy and Public Affairs | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title (ISO) | PPA |
| Discipline | Philosophy, Public Policy & Administration |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Alan Patten |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing (U.S.) |
| Publication history | 1971–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0048-3915 (print) 1088-4963 (web) |
| LCCN | sn99-23362 |
| OCLC number | 40777411 |
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Philosophy and Public Affairs is a quarterly journal published by Blackwell Publishing. The journal publishes philosophical articles on legal, social, and political issues, but welcomes philosophically inclined writers from various disciplines, such as law, political science, economics, and sociology.
Issues of public concern often have an important philosophical dimension. Philosophy & Public Affairs is published in the belief that a philosophical examination of these issues can contribute to their clarification and to their resolution. It welcomes philosophical discussion of substantive legal, social, and political problems, as well as discussions of the more abstract questions to which they give rise. In addition, it aims to publish studies of the moral and intellectual history of such problems. Philosophy & Public Affairs is designed to fill the need for a venue in which philosophers with different viewpoints and philosophically inclined writers from various disciplines-including law, political science, economics, and sociology-can bring their distinctive methods to bear on problems that concern everyone.