The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 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...

 of 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...

 published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the School of Philosophy (University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

) and is edited by the faculty there. The journal covers all major areas of philosophy in the analytic tradition

Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy is a generic term for a style of philosophy that came to dominate English-speaking countries in the 20th century...

, sometimes as special issues aimed at a particular topic.

History

The journal was established in 1920 as The Personalist by Ralph Tyler Flewelling

Ralph Tyler Flewelling

Ralph Tyler Flewelling was an American philosophy professor, born ar De Witt, Mich., and educated at the University of Michigan, Alma College . the Garrett Biblical Institute , and Boston University...

 and focused on the philosophy of personalism

Personalism

Personalism is a philosophical school of thought searching to describe the uniqueness of a human person in the world of nature, specifically in relation to animals...

. It obtained its current name in 1980 and "devoted itself exclusively to analytical and logical philosophy".