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Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ7796972 ↗
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Thought: A Journal of Philosophy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Philosophy Documentation Center in cooperation with the Thought Trust. The journal covers logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. The editors-in-chief are Crispin Wright (Universities of Stirling and New York), John Divers (University of Leeds), and Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (Stockholm University). From 2012 to 2021 this journal was published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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