Utilitas
Last updated ISSN 0953-8208
Utilitas is published by Cambridge University Press in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Utilitas concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Free Will and Agency
- Political Theory and Influence
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Ethics in medical practice
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0953-8208, 1741-6183 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,585 |
| Publishing since | 1989 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=UTI |
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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