Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society

The Aristotelian Society, founded in 1880, is one of the oldest and most prestigious philosophy societies. Content covers all areas of philosophy, including Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Meta-Ethics, and History of Western Philosophy. The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, focuses on publishing the first rate philosophy articles which are read at the Society's fortnightly meetings in London throughout the academic year. In addition to these commissioned pieces, the journal welcomes submissions of short discussion notes on these papers. Papers are drawn from an international base of contributors and discuss issues across a broad range of philosophical traditions, including those which are of greatest current interest. See also the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume Abstracting and Indexing Services Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Elite (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Thomson Reuters) Philosopher's Index (Philosopher's Information Center) Philosophy Research Index (PDC) PhilPapers SCOPUS (Elsevier) Journal metrics Citation metrics Scopus 2025 CiteScore 1.2 Philosophy (Rank by CiteScore) 223/891 2025 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 1.332 Readership 2025 Full Text Usage 40,478 About metrics Disclaimer Statements of fact and opinion in the articles in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society are those of the respective authors and contributors and not of the Journal, The Aristotelian Society, or Oxford University Press, unless otherwise expressly indicated. Neither Oxford University Press, The Aristotelian Society, nor the Journal make any representation, express or implied, in respect of the accuracy of the material in the Journal and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Readers should make their own evaluation as to the appropriateness or otherwise of the information included.