Highly debated legal, moral, and political issues require (good) reasons to be dealt properly with, if only in view of tentative arrangements. Reasons require, in turn, a deep and unbiased understanding of the problems at stake, which only a careful philosophical analysis can provide. Since 1993, Ragion Pratica has painstakingly offered to its readers, in Italy and abroad, a timely forum of principle on the major puzzles in normative ethics and legal philosophy, always using those topics both as a benchmark for ethical theory, and as a field for testing and enhancing the ideal of a public reason, against any sort of fundamentalist thinking. Each issue contains a part devoted to a specific ethical problem, that is usually entrusted to guest editors, plus a selection of essays, review-essays, and the discussion of a case. Its contributors come from the international community of legal, moral, and political philosophers. Pluralism in ethical allegiances and variety of philosphical perspectives are among the foremost editorial principles of the review.
Editorial board Mauro Barberis, Paolo Comanducci, Riccardo Guastini (editor in chief), Francesco Viola Editorial staff Susanna Pozzolo (coordinamento), Marco Brigaglia, Costanza Margiotta Broglio, Giovanni Tuzet Advisory board Bruno Celano, Pierluigi Chiassoni, Enrico Diciotti, Tecla Mazzarese, Elena Pariotti, Baldassarre Pastore, Giorgio Pino, Aldo Schiavello, Isabel Trujillo, Vito Velluzzi Scientific board Robert Alexy, Jesús Ballesteros, Maria Vittoria Ballestrero, Francesco Botturi, Michelangelo Bovero, Gaetano Carcaterra, Alfonso Catania, Guido Corso, Raimondo Cubeddu, Luigi Ferrajoli, Ernesto Garzón Valdés, David Gauthier, Ricardo A. Guibourg, Mario Jori, Antonio La Spina, Eugenio Lecaldano, Javier de Lucas, Pasquale De Sena, José Juan Moreso, Ulfrid Neumann, Giampaolo Parodi, Pasquale Pasquino, Stanley L. Paulson, Giuliano Pontara, Pier Paolo Portinaro, Pierluigi Sacco, Kurt Seelmann, Michele Taruffo, Michel Troper, Mirella Urso, Rodolfo Vázquez, Vittorio Villa, Ermanno Vitale, Giuseppe Zaccaria, Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Stefano Zamagni, Paolo Zatti.
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The journal is rated "A", by the Italian academic research evaluation agency (Anvur), for the following scientific areas: 14 a1 (Political philosophy), 12 h3 (Legal philosophy).
