''The Journal of Philosophy'' is a monthly

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, founded in 1904 at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. Its stated purpose is "To publish philosophical articles of current interest and encourage the interchange of ideas, especially the exploration of the borderline between philosophy and other disciplines." Subscriptions and online access are managed by the Philosophy Documentation Center. The journal is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious journals in the field. The journal also publishes the Dewey, Woodbridge, and Nagel Lectures series held at Columbia University.

History

The journal was founded at Columbia University in 1904 as ''The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods'', under the editorship of Professor Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and Professor James McKeen Cattell.Iris Bean, "Brief History of the Journal of Philosophy", 1942. Wendell T. Bush became co-editor of the journal in 1906 and provided it with its endowment. The inaugural issue announced that the journal was founded with the intent of "covering the whole field of scientific philosophy, psychology, ethics, and logic" so that "the relations between philosophy and psychology should remain intimate". In 1921, the name of the journal was shortened to ''The Journal of Philosophy.'' From 1954 to 1985, the President of the journal was Albert G. Redpath. After Redpath's death, Corliss Lamont was President for a short period. Arthur C. Danto was President from 1985 to 2010, followed by Akeel Bilgrami, the current President. The journal is published from Columbia University. From its founding until 1998, the journal was printed by the Lancaster Press in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Today, the journal is printed by the Sheridan Press in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Past contributors to the journal include: Theodor W. Adorno, G.E.M. Anscombe, D. M. Armstrong, A. J. Ayer, Jonathan Bennett, Henri Bergson, Ned Block, Tyler Burge,

Rudolf Carnap Rudolf Carnap (; ; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. ...

, Stanley Cavell, David Chalmers, Roderick Chisholm, Noam Chomsky, Paul Churchland, Arthur Danto, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett,

John Dewey John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and Education reform, educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century. The overridi ...

, Fred Dretske, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michael Dummett, Ronald Dworkin, Kit Fine, Jerry Fodor, Harry Frankfurt, Peter Geach,

Alvin Goldman Alvin Ira Goldman (October 1, 1938 – August 4, 2024) was an American philosopher who was emeritus Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a leading figure in epistemology. Educat ...

, Nelson Goodman, Jürgen Habermas,

Ian Hacking Ian MacDougall Hacking (February 18, 1936 – May 10, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, ...

, Gilbert Harman, Carl Hempel, Jaakko Hintikka, Frank Jackson, William James, Jaegwon Kim, David Lewis, Walter Kaufmann, Christine Korsgaard, Saul Kripke, Alasdair MacIntyre, J. L. Mackie,

John McDowell John Henry McDowell (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics, epistemology, anci ...

George Herbert Mead George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, Sociology, sociologist, and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago. He was one of the key figures in the development of pragmatis ...

, Sidney Morgenbesser, Ernest Nagel, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Martha Nussbaum, Derek Parfit, Charles Sanders Peirce, Alvin Plantinga,

Hilary Putnam Hilary Whitehall Putnam (; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of ...

, W. V. O. Quine, John Rawls,

Hans Reichenbach Hans Reichenbach (; ; September 26, 1891 – April 9, 1953) was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism. He founded the ''G ...

, Richard Rorty,

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic ...

, George Santayana, T. M. Scanlon, David Schmidtz, Wilfrid Sellars, Amartya Sen, Elliott Sober, Robert Stalnaker, P. F. Strawson, Charles Taylor, Tim van Gelder, and Peter van Inwagen.

Notable articles

According to the Thomson Reuters

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, the most cited articles published by the journal include:

Early 20th century

* "Does 'Consciousness' Exist" (1904) - William James * "A World of Pure Experience" (1904) - William James * "The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism" (1905) -

* "The Social Self" (1913) -

* "Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics" (1925) - George Santayana * "Behaviorism and Purpose" (1925) - Edward C. Tolman * "Logical Positivism" (1931) - Albert E. Blumberg and Herbert Feigl

Mid 20th century

* "Present Standpoints and Past History" (1939) - Arthur O. Lovejoy * "The Function of General Laws in History" (1942) - Carl G. Hempel * "The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals" (1947) - Nelson Goodman * "Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes" (1956) - W. V. O. Quine * "Actions, Reasons, and Causes" (1963) - Donald Davidson * "The Artworld" (1964) - Arthur C. Danto * "An Argument for the Identity Theory" (1966) - David Kellogg Lewis * "Singular Terms, Truth-Value Gaps, and Free Logic" (1966) - Bas van Fraassen * "Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic" (1968) - David Kellogg Lewis * "Ontological Relativity" (1968) - W. V. O. Quine * "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility" (1969) - Harry Frankfurt

Late 20th century

* "Epistemic Operators" (1970) - Fred Dretske * "Intentional Systems" (1971) - Daniel C. Dennett * "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" (1971) - Harry Frankfurt * "Causation, Nomic Subsumption, and the Concept of Event" (1973) - Jaegwon Kim * "Meaning and Reference" (1973) -

* "Functional Analysis" (1975) - Robert Cummins * "Free Agency" (1975) - Gary Watson * "Outline of a Theory of Truth" (1975) - Saul Kripke * "Preference and Urgency" (1975) - T. M. Scanlon * "Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge" (1976) - Alvin I. Goldman * "Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Theory Acceptance in Ethics" (1979) - Norman Daniels * "Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory" (1980) - John Rawls * "Rational and Full Autonomy" (1980) - John Rawls * "Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes" (1981) - Paul M. Churchland * "Moral Information" (1985) - Amartya Sen * "Skepticism about Practical Reason" (1986) - Christine Korsgaard * "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986) - Frank C. Jackson * "Individualism and Self-Knowledge" (1988) - Tyler Burge * "Why Abortion is Immoral" (1989) - Don Marquis * "The Structure and Content of Truth" (1990) - Donald Davidson * "National Self-Determination" (1990) - Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz * "Real Patterns" (1991) - Daniel C. Dennett * "Rationality Within Reason" (1992) - David Schmidtz * "Reconciliation Through the Public Use of Reason: Remarks on John Rawls's Political Liberalism" (1995) - Jürgen Habermas * "What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation?" (1995) - Tim van Gelder * "The Woodbridge Lectures: Having the World in View: Sellars, Kant, and Intentionality" (1997) -

21st century

* "Causation as Influence" (2000) - David Lewis * "Knowing How" (2001) - Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson * "The Harder Problem of Consciousness" (2002) - Ned Block * "Challenges to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition" (2004) - Robert D. Rupert * "What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice" (2006) - Amartya Sen * "The Dewey Lectures: What Kind of Creatures Are We?" (2013) - Noam Chomsky

References

External links

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