
Academic Journal
Q1Philosophical Topics
About Philosophical Topics
Philosophical Topics is a scholarly journal published by University of Arkansas Press. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.522 and H-index of 25.
Coverage: 2011-2024. Research categories: Philosophy (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Philosophy and Theoretical Science; Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics; Philosophical Ethics and Theory; Political Philosophy and Ethics; Philosophy and History of Science; Classical Philosophy and Thought.
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Sensitization to cruelty as a challenge of practical philosophy: Richard Rorty versus Judith N. Shklar and Donatella Di Cesare
Burkhard Liebsch
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Marcello Ruta
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255315Contingency at play: Blumenberg and Rorty on how contingency matters for human life form
Sebastian Lederle
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255319Exploring Authenticity and Cruelty: Rorty’s Therapeutic Edification of Freud
Philipp Battermann
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255317Contingencies of the Self: Rorty’s Pragmatic Blessing and Günther Anders’ Existential Curse
Daria-Leona Mac Award
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255318The “second Enlightenment”: Rortyan or Hegelian?
Samuel Vitel
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255314Pragmatism as (a Form of Kantian) Anti-Authoritarianism
Sebastian Luft
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255313“I Am Not What I Am”: Mendelssohn and Cavell on Self-Alienation and the Stakes of Skepticism
Jens Pier
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255311Editors’ Introduction to the Lecture Notes of 1982, “Philosophy 333, Philosophy From Kant to 1900,” Princeton University, Winter Term 1982
Sebastian Luft, Lukas Nehlsen
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics202553111Richard Rorty, Lecture Course Phil 333, “Philosophy from Kant to 1900”
Richard Rorty
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics202553112Who’s Afraid of Transcendental Idealism? Rorty, Davidson, and Kant on the Limits of Intelligibility
Lukas Nehlsen
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255312Rorty and Nietzsche: The liberal containment of the will to power
Martin Müller
2025 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20255316Bias Reduction as an Aesthetic Norm
Emine Hande Tuna
2024 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20245215On not acknowledging an animal’s wound: Reading Coetzee with Mulhall
Edward Witherspoon
2024 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics202452220Introduction: Philosophy as Discourse: The Thought of Stephen Mulhall
Edward Minar
2024 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics202452212The Resurrection of God?
A. W. Moore
2024 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics202452218Varieties of Aesthetic Response
Robbie Kubala
2024 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20245214Almost Every Work of Art is a Failure
Kenneth Walden
2024 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20245217“A Wedge-Shaped Core of Darkness”: On Self-Knowledge, Self-Opacity, and Soul-Pictures
Francey Russell
2024 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics202452219(In)Alienable: Acknowledgment and Its Limits
David R. Cerbone
2024 · DOI: 10.5840/philtopics202452216Reviews
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