Ratio is an international analytic philosophy journal edited by University of Reading Professor David S. Oderberg. The publication encourages submissions that meet the highest standards of philosophical rigour, while remaining accessible to readers with a broad range of philosophical interests. The journal appears quarterly, including a special issue in December on a particular theme and with invited contributors.

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Read the latest Special Issue Applied Philosophy of Language: Politics and Power, edited by Emma Borg, Sarah A. Fisher, Nat Hansen, Antonio Scarafone, and Marat Shardimgaliev


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Upcoming Special Issue 2022: 'Rules to Live By: Essays in Honour of Brad Hooker', edited by Luke Elson and Charlotte Newey

News & Announcements

Annual Ratio Conference 16 September 2023:

Purpose in Biology: New Directions. This is a FREE hybrid online/in-person conference at the University of Reading.

Speakers:
Stephen Boulter (Oxford Brookes)
Mark Okrent (Bates College)
Michele Paolini Paoletti (Macerata)
Matthew Tugby (Durham)

Registration details to be announced shortly.

Wiley Humanities Festival 2018:
See here for a conversation with Ratio's editor, David S. Oderberg.

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Knowing with

Heather Rabenberg, 
  •  23 April 2024
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Recalcitrant emotions: The problems of perceptual theories

Giulio Sacco, 
  •  23 April 2024
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Relaxed realism, robust realism, and the truthmaker challenge

Paiman Karimi, 
  •  29 March 2024
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Mathematical structuralism and bundle theory

Bahram Assadian, 
  •  9 February 2024
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Knowability paradox, decidability solution?

William Bondi Knowles, 
  •  9 January 2024
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On being angry at oneself

Laura Silva, 
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  •  236-244
  •  15 May 2022

Are superintelligent robots entitled to human rights?

John-Stewart Gordon, 
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  •  181-193
  •  10 July 2022
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A trilemma for naturalized metaphysics

Rasmus Jaksland, 
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  •  1-10
  •  30 June 2022
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Reasons for Rule Consequentialists

Christopher Woodard, 
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  •  251-260
  •  3 August 2022

Deflationism, truth, and desire

Jamin Asay, 
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  •  204-213
  •  12 May 2022
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From Brad to worse: Rule‐consequentialism and undesirable futures

Tim Mulgan, 
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  •  275-288
  •  5 August 2022
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Hooker's rule-consequentialism and Scanlon's contractualism—A re-evaluation

Jussi Suikkanen, 
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  •  261-274
  •  3 August 2022
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Hooker's rule-consequentialism, disasters, demandingness, and arbitrary distinctions

Fiona Woollard, 
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  •  289-300
  •  9 August 2022
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Deep personal relationships and well‐being: A response to Hooker

Roger Crisp, 
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  •  301-309
  •  17 August 2022

Meaning and beauty

Lucas Scripter, 
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  •  51-63
  •  21 October 2022
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Equality and Priority

Derek Parfit, 
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  •  202-221
  •  17 December 2002
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Against Narrativity

Galen Strawson, 
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  •  428-452
  •  17 November 2004

THE NATURE OF HOPE

Ariel Meirav, 
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  •  216-233
  •  26 April 2009

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