The Harvard Review of Philosophy is an academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 covering philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 and published annually as a single volume since 1991. The journal is entirely edited and published by students at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, mostly undergraduates.

In addition to academic articles, the journal publishes interviews with living philosophers. These have included such notables as Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...

, Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell

Stanley Louis Cavell is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.-Life:...

, Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam

Hilary Whitehall Putnam is an American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science...

, 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...

, and Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition...

. The first issue had an interview with John Rawls

John Rawls

John Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University....

, one of the few he ever gave.

Three books have been published collecting articles from the journal, one collecting some of the interviews and the others the philosophical essays:

• Philosophers in conversation: interviews from the Harvard Review of Philosophy (2002)
• The Space of Love and Garbage: And Other Essays from The Harvard Review of Philosophy (2008)
• All We Need Is a Paradigm: Essays on Science, Economics, and Logic from The Harvard Review of Philosophy (2009)

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a title coined by American philosopher and logician George Boolos in an article published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996 for the following Raymond Smullyan inspired logic puzzle:Boolos provides...

appeared in the 1996 issue of The Harvard Review of Philosophy.