ANNOUNCEMENT

Maurice Goldsmith died on Saturday, 21st June, 2008. Maurice was Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy from 2002 to late 2007. He was Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter, where he had held the chair from 1969 until moving to New Zealand in 1989. Subsequently he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, then Research Fellow in the Philosophy Programme at the Victoria University of Wellington. He wrote widely on political thought, including books and articles on Mandeville and Hobbes. He gave his full and patient attention to the task of editing the Journal: close scrutiny of its pages reveals, for example, a significant number of authorial acknowledgments of his direct assistance. On behalf of the Australasian philosophical community, we of the AJP’s editorial team extend our sympathy to his wife, Elizabeth McLeay.
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The Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP) is one of the world's leading philosophy journals. It is recognized as publishing the very best work in the analytic tradition, but is not narrow in what it regards as worthy of acceptance. Heavily cited in the general philosophical literature, it is covered by all the major abstracting and indexing services, including ISI as well as the Arts and Humanities Citation Index^® which provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in the world's leading arts and humanities journals. In 2007 it was rated 'A' (the highest category) in the European Reference Index in the Humanities (ERIH), a European Science Foundation project which aims to help impartially assess the quality of Humanities research output.

Founded in 1923, the AJP has appeared without a break ever since, moving from triannual to quarterly issues in 1979. It was originally produced directly by the Australasian Association of Philosophy (which remains its owner and sponsoring organization). Responsibility for publication was transferred by the Association to Oxford University Press in 1998. Since 2005 it has been published by Taylor & Francis under their Routledge imprint. It is now available in full-text in more than 8,000 academic and research libraries world-wide, including developing nations, through online arrangements with Taylor & Francis.

Of approximately 400 submissions per year from across the globe, about 30 are selected for publication as articles. The Editor bases decisions on the advice of a world-wide network of referees, with the additional support of an internationally distinguished Board of Associate Editors, who take an active part in the running of the Journal.

The AJP has a reputation for supplying, on average, timely decisions on submissions, with helpful comments from referees.

The Editor is elected to the position by a vote of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, to which he reports annually and to whose Council he belongs ex officio.