The Journal of Political Philosophy

The Journal of Political Philosophy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of political philosophy.

Controversy
The journal became engaged in a controversy when it published three articles on Black Lives Matter, each written by white academics and previously presented at a conference on that subject. The controversy began when Yale professor Christopher Lebron published an "open letter" criticizing the journal for not having included "philosophers of color" in the symposium. Lebron further claimed that the journal had not, up to that point, published on race since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement began, and that it had not published a philosopher of color since the journal's inception. The conference organizers pointed out that they had invited philosophers of color to contribute to the symposium but that none had chosen to. Others noted that the Journal of Political Philosophy had published on race since the beginning of Black Lives Matter movement, and that they had published philosophers of color - indeed, the journal was co-founded by Chandran Kukathas, a philosopher of color. The editors issued a formal apology, promised to add at least two African American academics to the editorial board, and committed to seeking more works written by non-white academics.

Editorial Resignation
In April 2023, publisher Wiley-Blackwell fired Robert Goodin as editor of the journal, citing problems of "communication". In response, the associate editors Sally Haslanger, Philip Pettit, Anne Phillips, and Amia Srinivasan, and editorial board members Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jane Mansbridge, Jeff McMahan, and Anna Stilz resigned from their positions at the journal in protest to Goodin's removal as editor. The former editors of the Journal of Political Philosophy announced the formation of a new journal, Political Philosophy, in its stead.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

• EBSCOhost

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

• Scopus

• Sociological Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.044, ranking it 63rd out of 163 journals in the category "Political Science" and 24th out of 51 journals in the category "Ethics".