History of Philosophy Quarterly

History of Philosophy Quarterly
Title	History of Philosophy Quarterly
Discipline	Philosophy
Abbreviation	HPQ
Publisher	[See Editorial Board and Publisher]
Country	United States
History	1984–present
Frequency	Quarterly
Issn	0279-5142

History of Philosophy Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarship on the history of Western and non-Western philosophical traditions. Founded in the 1980s, the journal has featured research on figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, and Immanuel Kant alongside studies of Confucius, Maimonides, Avicenna, Hume, and Wittgenstein. It has served scholars affiliated with institutions like Harvard University, Oxford University, University of Chicago, Princeton University, and University of Cambridge.

History

The journal was established in 1984 amid wider developments in scholarly publishing exemplified by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Routledge, and Springer Nature. Early volumes engaged debates shaped by work on Socrates, Plotinus, Boethius, Dante Alighieri, Niccolò Machiavelli, and René Descartes while responding to historiographical shifts influenced by scholars from King's College London, Yale University, Columbia University, Brown University, and Johns Hopkins University. Editorial strategies reflected intellectual currents associated with the histories of interpretation tied to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The journal navigated institutional changes occurring alongside initiatives at American Philosophical Association, Modern Language Association, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Royal Institute of Philosophy, and International Ryan?.

Scope and Focus

The journal’s remit covers historical work on figures such as Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Epicurus, Plotinus, and Proclus; medieval thinkers including Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham; early modern authors like Francis Bacon, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and John Locke; and modern philosophers such as David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx. It also publishes research on continental figures like Edmund Husserl, Henri Bergson, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida and on non-Western traditions involving Nagarjuna, Zhuangzi, Laozi, Ibn Sina, and Al-Farabi. The coverage intersects with institutional and intellectual contexts tied to Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, and Palgrave Macmillan.

Editorial Board and Publisher

The editorial board has included scholars affiliated with University of Notre Dame, University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, Cornell University, and Duke University and has featured editors known for work on Ancient Greek philosophy, Medieval scholasticism, Early Modern rationalism, British empiricism, and Continental phenomenology. The publisher relationship situates the journal within American scholarly infrastructure alongside partnerships and comparisons to publications from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Blackwell Publishing, Taylor & Francis, and SAGE Publications. Board members have been participants in associations including American Philosophical Association, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Medieval Academy of America, North American Kant Society, and Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.

Publication History and Frequency

Since its founding in 1984 the journal has maintained a quarterly schedule, issuing four numbers per year that assemble essays, critical notes, review essays, and book reviews. Over its run it has appeared in thematic clusters and special issues on topics such as Platonic dialogues, Aristotelian ethics, Cartesian metaphysics, Lockean empiricism, Kantian critique, Hegelian dialectic, and Nietzschean genealogy, and has coordinated symposia tied to conferences at American Philosophical Association divisional meetings, workshops at Institute for Advanced Study, and colloquia at Getty Research Institute. Production and distribution practices have evolved in conversation with developments at JSTOR, Project MUSE, CrossRef, DOAJ, and major university libraries such as Library of Congress.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in major bibliographic services and citation databases alongside titles listed in Philosopher's Index, Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, and ProQuest. Its inclusion facilitates discoverability for researchers consulting catalogs at WorldCat, databases used by libraries at University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, Harvard Library, New York Public Library, and interlibrary loan networks connected to OCLC.

Notable Articles and Impact

Notable articles have examined foundational texts and authors such as Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Aquinas's Summa Theologica, Descartes' Meditations, and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, while advancing interpretive debates concerning Stoicism, Scholasticism, Cartesian dualism, Empiricism versus rationalism, and Phenomenology. Contributors have included scholars associated with Cornell University, Brown University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Michigan, and the journal’s pieces have been cited in monographs from presses such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Princeton University Press. Special issues have influenced teaching and research at programs in Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Studies, Early Modern Studies, Continental Philosophy, and Comparative Philosophy.

Category:Academic journals