Moral Philosophy and Politics
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About this journal
The current volume of Moral Philosophy and Politics (MOPP) is open access via Subscribe to Open (S2O). All accepted articles will be published under a Creative Commons license at no cost to authors. Learn more about De Gruyter Brill’s Subscribe to Open program.
Moral Philosophy and Politics (MOPP) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original philosophical articles addressing matters of public relevance. The notion ‘public relevance’ is construed broadly to encompass various domains and aspects. The journal has a special focus on the philosophical assessment of policies and their normative foundations, analyses of the philosophical underpinnings or implications of political discourse, and discussions of the justice or injustice inhere nt in social and political structures that govern human conduct.
MOPP is committed to the ideals of clarity, evidence-based reasoning, and intellectual openness. interdisciplinary work and historical approaches are encouraged when they are relevant to contemporary issues. MOPP considers both theoretical and meta-ethical works, as well as those tackling conceptual problems, provided they offer insights into political, moral, economic or social issues that characterize contemporary societies. Contr i butors are expected to make clear how their work relates to these issues.
Current Calls for Papers
- 'Citizenship and Global Inequality', ed. by Daniel Sharp
deadline: November 1st, 2026 (for more information click here) ‘Philosophy of Societal Transformations’, ed. by Eike Düvel and Jeroen Hopster
deadline: March 2nd, 2026 (for more information click here)
Call for Special Issues and Symposia
Moral Philosophy and Politics welcomes guest editors who are interested in organizing special issues f or our journal. If you have a topic in mind that aligns with the scope and focus of MOPP and would like to collaborate with us, please get in touch with our editorial team. Interested guest editors are kindly requested to inclu de a one-page proposal outlining their envisioned special issue. For more information about the process of publishing a special issue with MOPP, please click here.
Complete Archive Access
As of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost.
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Open AccessSpeech, Shame, and UptakeApril 13, 2026
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February 25, 2026
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Open AccessIgnoring the UnreasonableJanuary 6, 2026
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Open AccessWhen and Why Is Social Kind Membership Morally Wrong? On the Moral Foundations of Ontic InjusticeOctober 27, 2025
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Open AccessEcological Sustainability: What We the People Owe Ourselves as a Duty of Self-DeterminationAugust 1, 2025
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedStyles of Social KindsLicensedJuly 17, 2025
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Issue 2
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Issue 1Special Issue: Mathias Risse and Gabriel Wollner’s On Trade Justice; Guest Editors: Peter Dietsch and Frank J. Garcia
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Issue 2
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Issue 1Special Issue: Towards Foolproof Democracy: Improving Public Debate and Political Decision-Making (Part II); Guest Editors: David Lanius and Ioannis Votsis
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Issue 2Special Issue: Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights; Guest Editors: Anca Gheaus und Sabine Hohl
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Issue 1Special Issue: The Ethics of State Mass Surveillance, Guest Editor: Peter Königs
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Issue 2Special Issue: Towards Foolproof Democracy: Improving Public Debate and Political Decision-Making, Guest Editors: David Lanius and Ioannis Votsis
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Issue 1Special Issue: Demandingness in Practice Guest Editors: Marcel van Ackeren and Simon Derpmann
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Issue 2Special Issue: Normative Aspects of International Trade Institutions, Guest Editor: Valentin Beck
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Issue 1Special Issue: Philip Pettit’s The Robust Demands of the Good, Guest Editors: N. P. Adams and Susanne Burri
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Issue 2Special Issue: Legitimate Expectations
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Issue 1Symposium: Autonomy and The Morality of Freedom
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Issue 2Special Issue: The Ethics of Immigration in a Non-Ideal World, Guest Editors: Jan Brezger, Andreas Cassee and Anna Goppel
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Issue 1Symposium: Brain Drain and Emigration, Guest Editor: Eszter Kollar
Call for Papers
Supplementary Materials
| Journal Impact Factor | 0.6 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 0.9 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 0.74 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 2.4 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.403 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.777 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Moral Philosophy and Politics (MOPP) invites submissions on any topic falling within the scope of the journal. It welcomes both submissions for special issues as well as submissions unrelated to any current call for papers. Submissions should be between 3.000 and 12.000 words in length.
MOPP uses a double-blind refereeing process. The identity of the author(s) of a submission is not known to the referees, nor vice versa. The editor in charge of the submission knows the identity of both. Submissions must be anonymized to allow for blind reviewing. Each submission is typically reviewed by two referees within six to twelve weeks.
Submissions need not conform to any particular formatting style upon submission, but must be adjusted to the MOPP house style upon acceptance.
Manuscripts are submitted via ScholarOne at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mopp.
De Gruyter allows authors the use of the final published version of an article (publisher pdf) for self-archiving (author's personal website) and/or archiving in an institutional repository (on a non-profit server) after an embargo period of 12 months after publication. The published source must be acknowledged and a link to the journal home page or articles' DOI must be set. Authors may not self-archive their articles in public and/or commercial subject based repositories. Click here for more information on De Gruyter’s self-archiving policy.
MOPP has a policy of making selected papers of every issue openly available for free.
For information on De Gruyter’s Open Access policy, please click here.
Editor-in-Chief
Lukas Meyer (Graz University, Austria)
Editors
Marcelo de Araujo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Tongdong Bai (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Anja Karnein (Binghampton University, NY, USA)
Jennifer M. Page, (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Michael Schefczyk (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Antoinette Scherz (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Managing Editor
Harald Stelzer (Graz University, Austria)
Editorial Board
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan, MI, USA)
Arthur Applbaum (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Dieter Birnbacher (Düsseldorf University , Germany)
Rüdiger Bittner (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Idil Boran (York University, Canada)
John Broome (Oxford University, UK)
Simon Caney (Oxford University, UK)
Paula Casal (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain)
Stephen Darwall (Yale University, New Haven, CN, USA)
Andreas Føllesdal (Oslo University, Norway)
Rainer Forst (Frankfurt University, Germany)
Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Stefan Gosepath (Free University Berlin, Germany)
David Heyd (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Wilfried Hinsch (Cologne University, Germany)
Duncan Ivison (Sydney University, Australia)
Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Matt Matravers (University of York, UK)
Kirsten Meyer (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
David Miller (Oxford University, UK)
Nenad Miscevic (Maribor University, Slovenia)
Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany)
Elif Ö ;zmen (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
Nigel Pleasants (University of Exeter, UK)
Thomas Pogge (Yale University, CT, USA)
Mathias Risse (Harvard University, MA, USA)
Sam Scheffler (New York University, USA)
Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Ralf Stoecker (Potsdam University, Germany)
Adam Swift (University of Warwick, UK)
John Tasioulas(U niversity College London, UK)
Leif Wenar (King’s College London, UK)
Andrew Williams (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain)
Lea Ypi (London School of Economics, UK)
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