History of Philosophy Quarterly

Editor: James Petrik

DETAILS

Current Volume: 41 (2024)
Issued quarterly (Jan, Apr, Jul, and Oct)
ISSN: 0740-0675
eISSN: 2152-1026

About

History of Philosophy Quarterly (HPQ) specializes in papers that cultivate philosophical history with a strong interaction between contemporary and historical concerns. Contributors regard work in the history of philosophy and in philosophy itself as parts of a seamless whole, treating 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. The journal favors the approach to philosophical history, increasingly prominent in recent years, that refuses to see the boundary between philosophy and its history as an impassable barrier.

HPQ is published by the University of Illinois Press on behalf of North American Philosophical Publications.


Indexes

Brepols, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes - und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur, Periodicals Index Online, Repertoire Bibliographique de la Philosophie (Online), Scopus, The Philosopher's Index


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Editors

Editor
James Petrik
Philosophy Dept
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
petrik@ohio.edu

Consultants

  • Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza, Kings College, London
  • Professor Margaret Atherson, University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Professor Sarah Broadie, University of St. Andrew
  • Professor Margaret Cameron, University of Victoria
  • Professor Roger Crisp, St. Anne’s College
  • Professor Patricia Curd, Purdue University
  • Professor Cynthia A. Freeland, The University of Houston
  • Professor Don Garrett, New York University
  • Professor Lenn Goodman, Vanderbilt University
  • Professor Paul Guyer, Brown University
  • Professor Edward Halper, The University of Georgia
  • Professor Rachana Kamtekar, University of Arizona
  • Professor Paul Katsafanas, Boston University
  • Professor Morgens Laerke
  • Marcy Lascano, University of Kansas
  • Professor Beatrice Longuenesse, New York University
  • Professor Nadia Maftouni, University of Tehran
  • Dr. Anna Marmodoro, Corpus Christi College
  • Professor Fred D. Miller, Jr., Bowling Green University
  • Professor Nicholas J. Moutafakis, Cleveland State University
  • Professor Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado
  • Dominik Perler, Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Professor John Richardson, New York University
  • Professor Mark Roberts, Franciscan University of Steubenville
  • Professor Andrea Robiglio, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Professor Peter Simpson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Professor Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University
  • Professor Steven Sverdlik, Southern Methodist University
  • Professor Thomas Williams, University of Southern Florida
  • Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University

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Pre-Publication Policy

The History of Philosophy Quarterly 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 who 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.

PDF Post-Print Policy

PDFs are permitted and issued for the following:

  • Tenure dossier.
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All PDFs will include a statement of copyright and a provision that the articles will not be photocopied, distributed, or used for purposes other than the terms agreed to by UIP.

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Submissions

Contributions may be as short as 3,000 words or as long as 8,500 including endnotes and bibliography. All manuscripts should be composed with proper pagination, wide margins, and double spacing between lines. Endnotes should be used sparingly and should be numbered consecutively, typed with wide margins and double spacing, placed at the end of the paper. Authors should follow Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.). A brief abstract and a list of key words should be included at the beginning of the article. Please follow the style described in the style sheet HPQ Style Sheet.

Articles should be submitted electronically to the HPQ 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.

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Evaluation Procedures

While some submissions are declined upon initial internal review by the editor as inappropriate, improperly prepared, too long, too weak, etc., the great majority of submissions are sent blind to two philosophers expert in the area of the topic. Reports on submitted articles are provided by members of the HPQ Board of Consults and also by a very large array of expert scholars from across the world who are not directly connected with the journal's editorial management. Reviews are always anonymous and the choice of evaluators is solely dependent on area of expertise. In order to expedite getting decisions to authors, in rare cases the editor might make a decision on the basis of one reviewer when their review is particularly thorough and authoritative.

The evaluators are asked to supply a recommendation of accept, decline, revise & resubmit, etc., and comments. They frequently respond with generous reports containing detailed critical comments and suggestions for authors. The varying multi-step process of arranging for expert readers, evaluation, revision, reconsideration, and final revision can take six or more months. The current acceptance rate is ca. 10% and declining due to an increase of highly competitive submissions.

Style Sheet

Please read the Style Sheet and follow the guidelines when writing a paper for this journal.


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Featured Articles



PETER OF PALUDE AND THE FIERY FURNACE
Zita V. Toth
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48614938?refreqid=excelsior%3A839c5651777a75ed287ce12f07286c85

ON SOME LEIBNIZIAN ARGUMENTS FOR THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON
Stephen Harrop
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48614939?refreqid=excelsior%3Aa2446f4dcfdcba7decdf9f410c7c1d0f

BERKELEY ON PERCEPTUAL DISCRIMINATION OF PHYSICAL OBJECTS
Keota Fields
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48614940?refreqid=excelsior%3Acf1c57d2da71723522f27ec3d37b785e

CHOOSING FOR NO REASON? AN OLD OBJECTION TO FREEDOM OF INDIFFERENCE
Sonja Schierbaum
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48614941?refreqid=excelsior%3A227c5a5e634f4069e3e16a4b46148afc

The Philosophy of Joseph Priestley's 1765 Timeline: Abstract Ideas, Time, and Human Progress
Emily Thomas
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/1/25/351472/The-Philosophy-of-Joseph-Priestley-s-1765

Hume on Time and Steadfast Unchanging Objects
Todd Ryan; Jani Hakkarainen
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/1/3/351469/Hume-on-Time-and-Steadfast-Unchanging-Objects

Stebbing and Eddington in the Shadow of Bergson
Matyáš Moravec; Peter West
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/1/59/351468/Stebbing-and-Eddington-in-the-Shadow-of-Bergson

Mach's Denial of Absolute Time
Matias Slavov
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/1/85/351471/Mach-s-Denial-of-Absolute-Time

Later Medieval Psychology: Deliberation, Love, and Mental Causation
Michael Szlachta
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/2/105/379491/Later-Medieval-PsychologyDeliberation-Love-and

Motivation and Beyond?: The Role of Love (amor) in Ockham's Theory of Action
Sonja Schierbaum
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/2/109/379492/Motivation-and-Beyond-The-Role-of-Love-amor-in

Deliberation and Rival Accounts of Free Choice in Medieval Philosophy
Tobias Hoffmann
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/2/132/379494/Deliberation-and-Rival-Accounts-of-Free-Choice-in

Aquinas on Dualist Mental Causation
Can Laurens Löwe
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/2/163/379493/Aquinas-on-Dualist-Mental-Causation

Deriving Positive Duties from Kant's Formula of Universal Law
Guus Duindam
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/3/191/380092/Deriving-Positive-Duties-from-Kant-s-Formula-of

The Good in Boethius’ De hebdomadibus
Dan Kemp
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/3/202/380095/The-Good-in-Boethius-De-hebdomadibus

On Splitting the Atom: Cordemoy's Cartesianism and the Indivisibility of Bodies
Fred Ablondi
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/3/222/380093/On-Splitting-the-AtomCordemoy-s-Cartesianism-and

Constitution, Causation, and the Final Opinion: A Puzzle in Peirce's Illustrations
Griffin Klemick
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/3/237/380094/Constitution-Causation-and-the-Final-OpinionA

Against Passionate Epistemology: Defending Pure Thought in the Meditations
Saja Parvizian
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/3/258/380096/Against-Passionate-EpistemologyDefending-Pure

The Virtue Ethics of Ella Lyman Cabot
Diana B. Heney
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/4/279/385816/The-Virtue-Ethics-of-Ella-Lyman-Cabot

Obscuring Reason: Kant and Fichte on Acting against the Moral Law
Jörg Noller
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/4/302/385818/Obscuring-ReasonKant-and-Fichte-on-Acting-against

Moritz Schlick's Evolutionary Game Theory
Andreas Vrahimis
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/4/317/385817/Moritz-Schlick-s-Evolutionary-Game-Theory

Attachment in the Wake of Impermanence: A Comparison of Hume and Buddhism on the Practical Implications of having “No-Self”
Lorraine Besser
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/4/338/385815/Attachment-in-the-Wake-of-ImpermanenceA-Comparison

From Sympathy to Respect: Smith and Kant on Moral Motivation
Roberto Mordacci
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/40/4/359/385819/From-Sympathy-to-RespectSmith-and-Kant-on-Moral

“Trains of Thought Long Associated with Action”: Charles Darwin's Theory of Emotion
Trip Glazer
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/41/1/1/386610/Trains-of-Thought-Long-Associated-with-Action

How to Understand the Ineliminable Weakness of Finite Modes in Spinoza
Sanem Soyarslan
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/41/1/23/386612/How-to-Understand-the-Ineliminable-Weakness-of

Avicenna's Agent Intellect as a Completing Cause
Boris Hennig
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/41/1/45/386613/Avicenna-s-Agent-Intellect-as-a-Completing-Cause

Leibniz on Innocent Individual Concepts and Metaphysical Contingency
Juan Garcia Torres
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/41/1/73/386611/Leibniz-on-Innocent-Individual-Concepts-and

Spinozian Civic Virtues and Epistemic Democracy
Gonzalo Bustamante; Leandro De Brasi
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/41/2/117/388437/Spinozian-Civic-Virtues-and-Epistemic-Democracy

Reconsidering Taylor's Design Argument
Mehrzad Ali Moin
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/41/2/143/388439/Reconsidering-Taylor-s-Design-Argument

On the Philosophical Incoherence of a Duty to Promote the Highest Good
Samuel Kahn
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/41/2/165/388438/On-the-Philosophical-Incoherence-of-a-Duty-to

Can There be Romantic Love Without Jealousy?: The Debate between José Pérez de Montoro and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in their “Romances de Celos”
Sergio A. Gallegos-Ordorica
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/article/41/2/185/388440/Can-There-be-Romantic-Love-Without-Jealousy-The