The International Philosophical Quarterly is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 edited by a group of academics at Fordham University

Fordham University

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, with the collaboration of the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix

Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix

The University of Namur or Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix , in Namur , is a Jesuit, Catholic private university in the French Community of Belgium...

. It was established in 1961 to provide a publishing forum for the international exchange of basic philosophical ideas

Philosophy

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. The journal is circulated internationally to individuals and institutions in both print and electronic formats, and all issues are available online from the Philosophy Documentation Center

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.

Notable contributors

• Masao Abe
• Judith Butler
  Judith Butler
  Judith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley.Butler received her Ph.D...
  
  
• Antony Flew
  Antony Flew
  Antony Garrard Newton Flew was a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he was notable for his works on the philosophy of religion....
  
  
• Horace Romano Harré
• Hans Jonas
  Hans Jonas
  Hans Jonas was a German-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.Jonas's writings were very influential in different spheres...
  
  
• Joseph Koterski, S.J.
  Joseph Koterski
  Joseph Koterski, S.J. is an American Jesuit priest, philosopher, author, and currently associate professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York.-Academic career:...
  
  
• Paul Ricœur
• Richard Rorty
  Richard Rorty
  Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University...
  
  
• Edward Said
  Edward Said
  Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...
  
  
• Yves Simon
  Yves Simon
  This article is about the political philosopher. For the singer, see Yves Simon .Yves René Marie Simon was a French Catholic political philosopher, sometimes referred to as the "Philosopher of the Fighting French" for his support of the resistance to the Vichy government.-Life:Simon studied under...