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ISSN 1869-778X

Frankfurt School Verlag
 
Editors' Note, May 2010
 

Call for papers

  
   
Amartya Sen's recent book "The Idea of Justice" is put forward as a challenge to what Sen holds to be the predominant approach to justice in contemporary philosophy and marks as 'transcendentalism'. Justice is a matter of reason, but, argues Sen, there is no and cannot be a reasoned agreement on the nature of perfect justice. Moreover, no ideal conception of 'spotless' justice will help us solve the numerous problems of injustice easily identified in the real world. So Sen promotes a different 'comparative' account of justice whereby societies, practices and states of affairs are judged against actual and possible alternatives drawing on a plurality of views and conceptions of the good as expressed and argued for in public debate. Thorough economic and political analysis is at the heart of such moral reasoning. In expanding on and arguing for his conception of justice Sen expounds and integrates many of his well known ideas about welfare, capabilities, equality and liberty, democracy and human rights.

"The Idea of Justice" has immediately attracted the attention of the scholars in the field. Without doubt, it is an exceptionally resourceful and important contribution to the philosophy of justice. It is most instructive and illuminating but there is also plenty to argue with.


  
RMM invites contributions to a special topic:
Sen’s "The Idea Of Justice"
 
Contributions may discuss the general perspective on justice that Sen proposes, methodological aspects of his theory or particular material aspects and applications of his thought. Submissions will be subject to the regular review process.

There is no explicit deadline.  Contributions to a special topic in RMM are published continuously as soon as they passed the refereeing process. There will be no special issue (as RMM is not organized in issues). Contributions will appear on the latest entries page of RMM as well as on the respective volume page (in this case most probably 2010) and additionally on a special page containing all articles (and, hopefully, comments) on the specific topic. The topic will be open for additional contributions as long as there are interesting contributions to add, at least for the rest of 2010.




  

Editors' Note, January 2010
 
A new journal  
   
Rationality, Markets and Morals (RMM) is an international journal addressing issues at the intersection of philosophy and economics. Contributors are expected to approach economic problems from a philosophical point of view, to apply economic methods to the investigation of philosophical problems, or to explore the common foundations of both disciplines (see Aims and Scope for more details). Volume 0, available now, presents paradigm examples of RMM’s topical and methodological scope. It is a festschrift in honour of one of the editors, Hartmut Kliemt, who was invited to join RMM on the occasion of the festschrift’s presentation.


  
A new type of journal  
   
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All research articles passing an initial editor screening will be subject to rigorous double-blind peer review. In addition to original research articles, RMM will feature a discussion section with short articles and comments and a book review section. Contributions in these sections will undergo a simplified and faster review process (see Peer Review Policy for more details).

If you are interested in problems at the intersection of philosophy and economics, you are kindly invited to contribute to RMM (see How to Submit). A group of outstanding scholars is supporting this project as members of our editorial board. The internet offers us the opportunity to provide a high-quality journal that is nevertheless fast and accessible free of charge for scholars and students around the world. Let us jointly make the most of it.