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Issues of public con cern often have an important philosophical dimension.Philosophy & Public Aff airs is published in the belief that a philosophical examination of these issues can contribute to their clarifi cation and to their resolution.It welcomes philosophical discussions of substantive legal, social, and political problems, as well as discussions of the more ab stract questions to which they give rise.In addition, it aims to publish studies of the moral and intellectual history of such problems.Philosophy & Public Aff airs aspires to fi ll the need for a venue in which phi losophers with diff erent viewpoints and philosophically inclined writers from various disciplines-including law, political sci ence, economics, and sociology-can bring their distinctive methods to bear on problems that concern everyone.