Philosophy &amp; RhetoricPhilosophy &amp; Rhetoric Philosophy & Rhetoric Philosophy & Rhetoric is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering rhetorical theory, ethics, continental philosophy, informal logic, argumentation theory, critical social theory, and political theory. It is published by Penn State University Press and was established in 1968. The editor-in-chief is Erik Doxtader (University of South Carolina). The journal was established in 1968 by Henry Johnstone Jr. and Carroll Arnold, who saw a need for a journal that would, among other things, investigate "rhetoric as a philosophical concept". Johnstone was the journal’s first editor, serving from 1967 to 1977, and then again from 1987 to  1997. Next to Johnstone, Gerard A. Hauser was the longest serving editor of the journal, filling the post from 1987 to 1993, and then from 2003 to 2017. Abstracting and indexing. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, MLA International Bibliography, and Scopus. Editors-in-chief. The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief: Special issues. Occasionally, the journal publishes special issues dedicated to a specific subject. Past special issues have been: Philosophy & Rhetoric Philosophy & Rhetoric is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal