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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Editor
Patrick Grim
University of Michigan
Center for Study of Complex Systems
americanphilquarterly@gmail.com
Consultants
- Robert Francis Almeder, Georgia State University
- Professor Nomy Arplay, Brown University
- Professor Bradley Armour-Garb, SUNY Albany
- Professor Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia
- Professor Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Baylor University
- Professor Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University
- Professor Marc Lange, University of North Carolina
- Professor Alfred Mele, Florida State University
- Professor Paul Moser, Loyola University Chicago
- Professor Neil Tennant, Ohio State University
- Associate Professor Patrick Toner, Wake Forest College
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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 (17th 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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Notices of Books Received
Books submitted for this list should be sent to:
Nicholas Rescher
Executive Editor, APQ
Department of Philosophy
1012 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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