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Ratio
An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Edited by:
John Cottingham
Ratio publishes work of a high quality on a wide variety of topics. It encourages articles which meet the highest standards of philosophical expertise, while at the same time remaining accessible to readers from a broad range of philosophical disciplines. The journal's main emphasis is on analytic philosophy, but it also includes work from other traditions.
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Ratio Conference
The conference is held at the University of Reading each year and the next conference will be on: 'McDowell, 'Agents and their Actions'', held on Saturday 18th April 2009. The speakers are John McDowell, Joseph Raz, John Hyman and Robert Stern.
2009 Special Issue - articles now available online:
Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters by John Cottingham and Jussi Suikkanen
Derek Parfit's book On What Matters (formerly known as Climbing the Mountain) has been long awaited in the philosophical community, and has already aroused keen interest through successive drafts which have been privately circulated over the past few years. In the book, Derek Parfit, one of the world's leading moral philosophers, develops his reflections on a wide range of fundamental debates in ethical theory, including the nature of practical reason, and the interpretation of Kant's ethics and its relationship to consequentialism.
This special issue of Ratio, arose from an 'Author meets Critics' conference at the University of Reading, in which Parfit debated his views with leading experts in the field. Contributors to the special issue include Michael Smith, James Lenman, Seiriol Morgan, Michael Otsuka, Michael Ridge and Gideon Rosen.
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Recent Articles include:
The Harm of Immorality, Paul Bloomfield
Ratiocination: An Empirical Account, Fred Sommers
Kantian Value Realism, Alison Hills
Moral Knowledge, Epistemic Externalism and Intuitionism, Daniel Star
Why Qualia are Not Epiphenomenal, Hans Muller
Inequality, Injustice and Levelling Down, Thomas Christiano & Will Braynen
Rule-following without Reasons, Crispin Wright
Freedom of Occupational Choice, Michael Otsuka
How to Reconcile Essence with Contingent Existence, Stephen K. McLeod
Starred Issues
The June number of Ratio is designated a 'Starred' Issue, and opens with an invited contribution by an internationally known philosopher. The 'star' contributors in recent years include Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford), Edward Craig (Cambridge), Tim Williamson (Oxford), Michael Smith (ANU Canberra), Simon Blackburn (Cambridge), Adrian Moore (Oxford) and Susan Wolf (UNC Chapel Hill), Fred Sommers (Brandeis University).
Special Issues
- 2009 Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters by John Cottingham and Jussi Suikkanen
- 2008 Justice, Equality And Constructivism by Brian Feltham
- 2007 WITTGENSTEIN AND REASON. Edited by John Preston
- 2006 THE MEANING OF THEISM. Edited by John Cottingham
- 2005 METAPHYSICS AND SCIENCE. Edited by Alice Drewery
- 2004 THE SELF Edited by Galen Strawson
- 2003 ON WHAT WE OWE TO EACH OTHER Edited by Philip Stratton-Lake
- 2002 THE PHILOSOPHY OF BODY Edited by Michael Proudfoot
- 2001 MEANING AND REPRESENTATION Edited by Emma Borg
Contributors: John Hyman, Gregory McCulloch, Tim Crane, Jerry Fodore and Ernice Lepore, Paul Horwich, R. M. Sainsbury - 2000 ARGUING WITH DERRIDA Edited by Simon Glendinning
Contributors: Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington, Adrian Moore, Thomas Baldwin, Stephen Mulhall, Darren Sheppard - 1999 NORMATIVITY Edited by Jonathan Dancy
Contributors: Derek Parfit, Joseph Raz, Peter Railton, Frank Jackson, Christopher Hookway, John Broome - 1998 FORM AND MATTER Edited by David Oderberg
Contributors: John Haldne, Jonathan Lowe, Peter Simons, Michael Rea, Kit Fine, Gary Rozenkrantz, Joshua Hoffman - 1997 IDEALS OF EQUALITY Edited by Andrew Mason
Contributors: Derek Parfit, David Miller, Jan Narveson, Richard Norman, Janet Radcliffe Richards - 1996 THE RISE OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY Edited by Hans-Johann Glock
Contributors: Peter Hacker, Ray Monk, John Skorupski, Hans Sluga, Dagfinn Follesdal - 1995 TRUTH IN ETHICS Edited by Brad Hooker
Contributors: Bernard Williams, Crispin Wright, David Wiggins, Peter Railton, Michael Smith
