Philosophical Studies

Discipline	Philosophy
Language	English
Edited by	Wayne Davis Jennifer Lackey
Publication details
History	1950–present
Publisher	Springer
Frequency	12/year
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Philos. Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	PLSDA3
ISSN	0031-8116 (print) 1573-0883 (web)
LCCN	52062286
JSTOR	00318116
OCLC no.	01490601
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Philosophical Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. The journal is devoted to the publication of papers in exclusively analytic philosophy and welcomes papers applying formal techniques to philosophical problems. It was established in 1950 by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars. Starting in 1972, publication was assumed by D. Reidel.^[1] It is currently published by Springer, a corporate heir of D. Reidel.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic OneFile, Academic Search, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, ProQuest, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, EBSCO databases, FRANCIS, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, Mathematical Reviews, MLA International Bibliography, Scopus, Summon by Serial Solutions, and The Philosopher's Index.^[2] The journal ranked in the top ten of all general philosophy journals in an unscientific poll of philosophers conducted in 2012.^[3] It also ranked in the top ten in a later unscientific poll of philosophers ranking general and specialist journals together that was conducted in 2013.^[4]