British Journal of Aesthetics explained

British Journal of Aesthetics
Cover:	British Journal of Aesthetics.gif
Editor:	Paloma Atencia-Linares, Derek Matravers
Discipline:	Philosophy
Abbreviation:	Br. J. Aesthet.
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Country:	United Kingdom
Frequency:	Quarterly
History:	1960–present
Website:	https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics
Link2:	https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/issue
Link2-Name:	Online archive
Oclc:	299334726
Lccn:	63005058
Issn:	0007-0904
Eissn:	1468-2842

The British Journal of Aesthetics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering philosophical aesthetics and the philosophy of art. It was established in 1960 and is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society of Aesthetics.^[1] The first issue was edited by Harold Osborne in November 1960. The journal was originally published by Routledge and then by Thames & Hudson, before switching to its current publisher in 1975.^[2]

Editors-in-chief

The following people have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

• 1960-1978: Harold Osborne
• 1978-1995: Terry Diffey
• 1995-2008: Peter Lamarque
• 2008-2019: John Hyman, Elisabeth Schellekens
• 2019–present: Paloma Atencia-Linares, Derek Matravers

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index^[3]
• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities^[3]
• EBSCO databases^[4]
• Modern Language Association Database^[4]
• Philosopher's Index^[4]
• ProQuest databases^[4]
• Scopus^[5]

Notable articles

Some of the most cited articles published in the journal are:

• Levinson . Jerrold . 1979-01-01 . Defining art historically . British Journal of Aesthetics . 19 . 3 . 232–250 . 10.1093/bjaesthetics/19.3.232.
• Carroll . Noël . 1996-07-01 . Moderate moralism . British Journal of Aesthetics . 36 . 3 . 223–238 . 10.1093/bjaesthetics/36.3.223.
• Lamarque . Peter . 1981-04-01 . How can we fear and pity fictions? . British Journal of Aesthetics . 21 . 4 . 291–304 . 10.1093/bjaesthetics/21.4.291.
• Tolhurst . William E. . 1979-01-01 . On what a text is and how it means . British Journal of Aesthetics . 19 . 1 . 3–14 . 10.1093/bjaesthetics/19.1.3.
• Budd . Malcolm . 2003-10-01 . The acquaintance principle . British Journal of Aesthetics . 43 . 4 . 386–392 . 10.1093/bjaesthetics/43.4.386.

BSA essay prize

Since 2008, the journal publishes the biannual British Society of Aesthetics essay prize.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: About The British Journal of Aesthetics . Oxford Academic . 6 January 2018.
2. Web site: Memoir of the BSA and BJA . Diffey . Terry . 16 February 2019 . British Society of Aesthetics . 20 April 2019.
3. Web site: Master Journal List . . Intellectual Property & Science . 2019-04-21.
4. British Journal of Aesthetics . 0007-0904 . 2019-12-01.
5. Web site: Source details: British Journal of Aesthetics . . Scopus preview . 2019-04-21.
6. Web site: 2018 BSA Essay Prize . British Society of Aesthetics . 2019-04-20.