Philosophy & Public Affairs
Last updated ISSN 0048-3915
Philosophy & Public Affairs is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,460.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Philosophy & Public Affairs concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Legal case studies and regulations
- Legal Cases and Commentary
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Free Will and Agency
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0048-3915, 1088-4963 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,460 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 897 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1088-4 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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