IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

From 4.00 p.m. West Australian time (that is, 08.00 Universal Time), on Friday 1st August, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy is temporarily closed to new submissions of unsolicited material (including unsolicited book reviews).

This is to enable our transfer to a new, web-based, platform.

New submissions arriving after that time will not be considered for publication nor stored for transfer to the new platform.

Contributions from authors who have been given a verdict of revise-and-resubmit will be exempt from this closure. They should resubmit in the usual way. No other exceptions will be permitted.

The closure is not expected to last more than three months, and may well be less. In the meantime, those contemplating submission should consult this website, where the reopening, and any significant developments, will be announced.

All material which has been submitted prior to the above deadline via the existing email-based system will be finalized through the same system: no material will be moved from one platform to the other.

When we reopen for business, all submissions must take place through the new platform.

The Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP) is one of the world's leading philosophy journals. It is recognized as publishing the very best work in the analytic tradition, but is not narrow in what it regards as worthy of acceptance. Heavily cited in the general philosophical literature, it is covered by all the major abstracting and indexing services, including ISI as well as the Arts and Humanities Citation Index^® which provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in the world's leading arts and humanities journals. In 2007 it was rated 'A' (the highest category) in the European Reference Index in the Humanities (ERIH), a European Science Foundation project which aims to help impartially assess the quality of Humanities research output.

Founded in 1923, the AJP has appeared without a break ever since, moving from triannual to quarterly issues in 1979. It was originally produced directly by the Australasian Association of Philosophy (which remains its owner and sponsoring organization). Responsibility for publication was transferred by the Association to Oxford University Press in 1998. Since 2005 it has been published by Taylor & Francis under their Routledge imprint. It is now available in full-text in more than 8,000 academic and research libraries world-wide, including developing nations, through online arrangements with Taylor & Francis.

Of approximately 400 submissions per year from across the globe, about 30 are selected for publication as articles. The Editor bases decisions on the advice of a world-wide network of referees, with the additional support of an internationally distinguished Board of Associate Editors, who take an active part in the running of the Journal.

The AJP has a reputation for supplying, on average, timely decisions on submissions, with helpful comments from referees.

The Editor is elected to the position by a vote of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, to which he reports annually and to whose Council he belongs ex officio.