Ethics (journal)

Ethics is the direct continuation of the International Journal of Ethics, established in October 1890. Its first volume included contributions by many leading moral philosophers, including the pragmatists John Dewey and William James, idealists Bernard Bosanquet, and Josiah Royce, and the utilitarian Henry Sidgwick.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

The journal was established by the leaders of the humanist Ethical Movement, most notably Felix Adler,{{cite journal |last=Turner |first=Piers Norris |date= October 2014 |title= On Felix Adler's "The Freedom of Ethical Fellowship" |journal=Ethics |volume=125 |pages=208–210 |doi=10.1086/677019 |s2cid=170229965}} who was involved in the American Ethical Union, but also his humanist counterparts in the British Ethical Union such as Stanton Coit, John Stuart Mackenzie, and J.H. Muirhead, as part of an editorial board which also featured philosophers from Paris, Berlin, and Prague.{{cite web |url=https://heritage.humanists.uk/international-journal-of-ethics/ |title=International Journal of Ethics |work=Humanist Heritage |publisher=Humanists UK|accessdate=30 April 2021}} The journal's first editor was S. Burns Weston, who assembled an international editorial committee.

From its first issue in October, 1890 the journal published articles on ethics, discussions, and book reviews. It also served another function, which was to report on the activities of ethical culture societies around the world. Examples include the 1891 "book review" summarizing the annual report of the Workingman's School that was being operated by the New York Ethical Society{{cite journal |last=Weston |first=S. Burns |date=1891 |title= Review of Society for Ethical Culture, Workingman's School, United Relief Works |journal=International Journal of Ethics |volume=1}} and Jane Addam's 1898 report and commentary on her reformist social work at Hull House in Chicago.{{cite journal |last=Addams |first=Jane |date=1898 |title= Ethical Survivals in Municipal Corruption |journal=International Journal of Ethics |volume=8}}

In 1914, James Hayden Tufts became the editor of the journal, and brought on John Dewey as an associate editor. Under his leadership, the journal gradually shifted away from the Ethical Culture Movement and became a leading journal of philosophy.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} It was sold to the University of Chicago Press in 1923.{{cite journal |last=Richardson |first=Henry |date= October 2014 |title=The 125th Anniversary of the Journal |journal=Ethics |volume=125 |pages=1–10 |doi=10.1086/677755 |s2cid=143905224}}

Thomas Vernor Smith became editor of the journal in 1932, and brought on a number of new members to the editorial committee, including Herbert James Paton, Ralph Barton Perry, and W.D. Ross.

Under the leadership of Brian Barry{{cite journal |last1=Barry |first1=Brian |title=On Editing Ethics |journal=Ethics |date=1979 |volume=90 |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2380496 |issn=0014-1704}} in 1979, the journal became more interdisciplinary{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} and once again quite international,{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} and the editorial board grew to fifty-two members. Editor Gerald Dworkin instituted a double-blind review process in 1991. In 2017, the then editor, Henry S. Richardson, removed the remaining qualifications resulting in a review process in which none of the editors learn the authors' names until after the final decision has been reached on their submission. In 2018, Julia L Driver and Connie S. Rosati became co-editors of the journal, the first women to do so in its history. In 2024, Douglas W. Portmore became the current Editor of ETHICS.

• S. Burns Weston (founding editor)
• Frank Thilly (co-editor with Weston)
• James Hayden Tufts
• Thomas Vernor Smith
• Charner Marquis Perry
• Charles Wegener
• Warner Wick
• Brian Barry
• Gerald Dworkin
• John Deigh (1997-2008){{cite web |title=John Deigh |url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/philosophy/faculty/deighj |website=UT Austin |language=en}}
• Henry S. Richardson (2008-2018)
• Julia L Driver and Connie S. Rosati (2018-2023)
• Douglas W. Portmore (2024-)

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• {{cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Joshua |authorlink=Joshua Cohen (philosopher) |date=October 1986 |title= An Epistemic Conception of Democracy |journal=Ethics |volume=97 |issue=1 |pages=26–38 |doi=10.1086/292815 |jstor=2381404 |s2cid=143727410}}
• {{cite journal |last=Young |first=Iris |authorlink=Iris Marion Young |date=January 1989 |title=Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship |journal=Ethics |volume=99 |issue=2 |pages=250–274 |doi=10.1086/293065 |jstor=2381434 |s2cid=54215809}}
• {{cite journal |last=Kymlicka |first=Will |authorlink=Will Kymlicka |date=July 1989 |title= Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality |journal=Ethics |volume=99 |issue=4 |pages=883–905 |doi=10.1086/293125 | jstor=2381238 |s2cid=143501657}}
• {{cite journal |last=Buchanan |first=Allen |authorlink=Allen Buchanan |date=October 1992 |title=Assessing the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism |journal=Ethics |volume=99 |issue=4 |pages=48–75 |jstor=2381237}}
• {{cite journal |last=Pogge |first=Thomas |authorlink=Thomas Pogge |date=October 1992 |title=Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty |journal=Ethics |volume=97 |issue=1 |pages=48–75 |doi=10.1086/293470 |jstor=2381495 |hdl=1885/30478 |s2cid=143951313|hdl-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last=Miller |first=David |authorlink=David Miller (political theorist) |date=April 1992 |title= Distributive Justice: What the People Think|journal=Ethics |volume=102 |issue=3 |pages=555–593 |doi=10.1086/293425 |jstor=2381840 |s2cid=144567039}}
• {{cite journal |last=Galston |first=William |authorlink=William Galston |date=October 1986 |title=Two Concepts of Liberalism |journal=Ethics |volume=105 |issue=3 |pages=516–534 |doi=10.1086/293725 |jstor=2382140 |s2cid=222814373}}
• {{cite journal |last=Jones |first=Katen |date=October 1986 |title=Trust as an Affective Attitude |journal=Ethics |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=4–25 |doi=10.1086/233694 |jstor=2382241 |s2cid=144929560}}
• {{cite journal |last=Stilz |first=Anna |date=April 2011 |title=Nations, States, and Territories |journal=Ethics |volume=121 |issue=3 |pages=572–601 |doi=10.1086/658937 |s2cid=144410621}}
• {{cite journal |last=Barnes |first=Elizabeth |authorlink=Elizabeth Barnes |date=October 2014 |title=Valuing Disability, Causing Disability |journal=Ethics |volume=125 |pages=88–113 |doi=10.1086/677021 |s2cid=170520002}}
• {{cite journal |last=Jenkins |first=Katharine |date=January 2016 |title=Amelioration and Inclusion: Gender Identity and the Concept of Woman |journal=Ethics |volume=126 |issue=2 |pages=394–421 |doi=10.1086/683535 |s2cid=147699916}}

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