Philosophy and Rhetoric
Last updated ISSN 0031-8213
Philosophy and Rhetoric is published by Penn State University Press in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Philosophy and Rhetoric concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Classical Philosophy and Thought
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
- Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Key facts
| Publisher | Penn State University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0031-8213, 1527-2079 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,343 |
| Publishing since | 1936 |
| Journal website | www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_pr.html |
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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