The first issue of The Philosophical Quarterly was published in October 1950. In the sixty years since, the PQ has established itself as one of the world’s leading general philosophy journals. The journal continues to publish across the full spectrum of academic philosophy, and welcomes original research in all areas of philosophy and its history.
The editorial board have recently compiled this virtual issue to produce a representative sample of the last sixty years. Limiting themselves to two articles for each decade, they sought to give readers a taste of the variety of topics discussed in the journal, and the range of philosophical approaches taken to those issues. As the team find every week, when deciding which articles to publish today, the final choice was not easy. Many wonderful articles missed out. They could, of course, have included more, but wanted the virtual issue to be as close as possible to a real issue. The PQ hope that their selection will whet your appetites – encouraging you to search back through the PQ archive and discover hidden riches for yourselves.
The virtual issue opens with the editor’s introduction from the first issue, and with a brief piece by Malcolm Knox.
The Virtual Issue
Front Matter
Volume 1: Issue 1, 1950
A Passage in Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’
T. M. Knox
Volume 1: Issue 1, 1950
Feelings
Gilbert Ryle
Volume 1: Issue 3, 1951
Direct Perception
Norman Malcolm
Volume 3: Issue 13, 1953
Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch
Bernard Williams
Volume 12: Issue 49, 1962
Plato’s “Third Man” Argument (PARM. 132A1-B2): Text and Logic
Gregory Vlastos
Volume 19: Issue 77, 1969
The ideas of Power and Substance in Locke’s Philosophy
Michael R. Ayers
Volume 25: Issue 98, 1975
Common Knowledge
Jane Heal
Volume 28: Issue 111, 1978
Epiphenomenal Qualia
Frank Jackson
Volume 32: Issue 127, 1982
What does a concept script do?
Cora Diamond
Volume 34: Issue 136, 1984
A Furry Tile About Mental Representation
Deborah Brown
Volume 36: Issue 185, 1996
Finkish Dispositions
David Lewis
Volume 47: Issue 187, 1997
How to Reid Moore
John Greco
Volume 52: Issue 209, 2002
Kant’s second thoughts on race
Pauline Kleingeld
Volume 57: Issue 229, 2007
The Philosopher's Eye 