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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

 
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly  
Abbreviated title(s) Pac. Phil. Quarterly
Discipline Philosophy
Language English
Edited by Faculty of the School of Philosophy at USC
Publication details
Publisher Blackwell (U.S.)
Publication history 1920/1980 - present
Frequency Quarterly
Indexing
ISSN 0279-0750 (print)
1468-0114 (web)
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The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (formerly The Personalist) is a philosophy journal published by Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California and is edited by the faculty there. The journal publishes articles quarterly (four times per year) in all the major areas of philosophy in the analytic tradition, sometimes as special editions aimed at a particular topic.

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History

Prior to 1980, The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly was known as "The Personalist". The Personalist was started in at the University of Southern California in 1920 by Ralph Tyler Flewelling and focused on the philosophy of Personalism. The journal changed its name to "The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly" in 1980[1] and "devoted itself exclusively to analytical and logical philosophy".[2] Volume 61 was first volume published under the new name.

Notable articles

  • "Partial Character and the Language of Thought" (1982) - Stephen White
  • "Consciousness: The transmutation of a concept" (1983) - Patricia Churchland
  • "Individuation and Causation in Psychology" (1989) - Tyler Burge
  • "Well-Being and Time" (1991) - J. David Velleman
  • "Do Belief Reports Report Beliefs" (1997) - Kent Bach
  • "Causal and Metaphysical Necessity" (1998) - Sydney Shoemaker
  • "A Theory of the A Priori" (2000) - George Bealer
  • "Textbook Kripkeanism and the Open Texture of Concepts" (2000) - Stephen Yablo

Notes

References

  1. ^ One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers, edited by Stuart C. Brown, Diané Collinson, and Robert Wilkinson, (Routledge, 1998) p. 226.
  2. ^ "An Editorial Statement on the Transition Between Journals", Randall E. Auxier, accessed 10 Aug. 2008.

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