The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (jesp) is a peer-reviewed online journal in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. The journal was founded on the principle of publisher-funded open access. There are no publication fees for authors, and public access to articles is free of charge. Funding for the journal has been made possible through the generous commitment of the Division of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi.

jesp aspires to be the leading venue for the best new work in the fields that it covers, and it is governed by a correspondingly high editorial standard. The journal welcomes submissions of articles in any of these and related fields of research. The journal is interested in work in the history of ethics that bears directly on topics of contemporary interest but does not consider articles of purely historical interest. It is the view of the editors that the journal’s high standard does not preclude publishing work that is critical in nature, provided that it is constructive, well argued, current, and of sufficiently general interest.