Social Philosophy and Policy
Last updated ISSN 0265-0525
Social Philosophy and Policy is published by Cambridge University Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Social Philosophy and Policy concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Free Will and Agency
- Legal Cases and Commentary
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Political Economy and Marxism
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Ethics in medical practice
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0265-0525, 1471-6437 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,211 |
| Publishing since | 1983 |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-an |
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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