The Canadian Journal of Philosophy (CJP) is a philosophy

Philosophy

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 journal, founded in 1971 by John King-Farlow, Kai Nielsen, T.M. Penelhum, and W.W. Rozeboom. The journal publishes four issues per year by the University of Calgary Press

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 as well as a Supplementary Volume once per year consisting of invited papers on a particular philosophical topic.

Notable articles

The following is a partial list of some of the most notable articles in the CJP (in date order):

• "Legal Paternalism" (1974) - Joel Feinberg
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• "Counterfactuals and Possible Worlds" (1974) - Jonathan Bennett
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• "The Representative Theory of Perception" (1975) - Barry Maund
• "The Nature of Laws" (1977) - Michael Tooley
• "Modifiers and Quantifiers in Natural Language" (1980) - Terence Parsons
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• "Misinformation" (1989) - Peter Godfrey-Smith
• "The Ontology of Complex Systems" (1994) - William C. Wimsatt
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• "Breaking Up: An Essay on Secession" (1994) - David Gauthier
  David Gauthier
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• "Are Thought Experiments Just What You Thought?" (1996) - John D. Norton