Agent skill

Philosophy And Public Affairs

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs or deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue.

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Install Philosophy And Public Affairs

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill philosophy-and-public-affairs -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills philosophy-and-public-affairs --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs .claude/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
philosophy-and-public-affairs
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
809 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs or deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue.

  • Targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs
  • SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue

What it does

Philosophy And Public Affairs is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs or deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the rigorous-argument and public-significance bar, dialectical-engagement expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs
  • Deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/philosophy-and-public-affairs”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Philosophy And Public Affairs loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 809 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 809 words, ~1,824 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
philosophy-and-public-affairs
description
Use when targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs or deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the rigorous-argument and public-significance bar, dialectical-engagement expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Philosophy & Public Affairs (philosophy-and-public-affairs)

Journal positioning

Philosophy & Public Affairs, published by Wiley, brings philosophical rigor to matters of public concern — justice, rights, equality, war and its ethics, democracy, immigration, bioethics, the environment, and questions of policy. Its defining expectation is a rigorous, original argument that genuinely bears on a problem people outside academic philosophy care about: a clearly stated thesis, a valid and carefully defended line of reasoning, and head-on engagement with the strongest opposing positions, while remaining tethered to the real practical or political question. It is the applied/political-moral counterpart to Ethics, which ranges more widely into moral theory and metaethics; choose between them by whether the center of gravity is a public-affairs problem or a question of moral theory. Abstract theory with no public stake, or opinion with no argument, is a poor fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid. It does not replace the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Philosophy & Public Affairs author instructions.

When to trigger

  • The author names Philosophy & Public Affairs for an applied/political-moral manuscript on a matter of public concern and wants a fit/framing check.
  • A practically engaged argument must be sharpened philosophically — thesis, structure, and engagement with the strongest objections — to clear a top bar.
  • The author is choosing between Philosophy & Public Affairs and Ethics and needs the applied-vs-moral-theory distinction clarified.
  • The author needs the journal's public-significance + rigor bar and desk-reject heuristics.

Scope & topic fit

  • Theories of justice, equality, rights, and distributive questions with concrete public bearing.
  • The ethics of war, harm, coercion, and political violence; just-war and its alternatives.
  • Democracy, legitimacy, authority, and the design of political and legal institutions.
  • Bioethics, the ethics of risk and health, and the moral dimensions of public policy.
  • Global justice, immigration, climate and environmental ethics, and intergenerational concerns.
  • Applied normative arguments where philosophical analysis materially changes how a public problem should be understood.

Method & evidence bar

  • The contribution is an original thesis defended by a valid, carefully structured argument that bears on a real public problem; the claim and its practical stakes are stated early.
  • The strongest objections and rival positions — including those a thoughtful policy interlocutor would press — are engaged head-on and answered.
  • Distinctions are drawn precisely, key normative and conceptual terms are defined, and the argument's structure is transparent and independently motivated.
  • Empirical or institutional premises invoked are used responsibly and are not overstated beyond what the argument needs (the contribution remains philosophical, not a policy report).
  • Scholarly engagement is current and fair, situating the contribution in the live political/moral philosophy literature without padding.
  • Cases and examples connect the abstract argument to the public stakes and do real work.

Structure & house style

  • Full-length article in applied/political-moral philosophy with a sustained argument tethered to a public problem; re-check current length expectations and article types on the live guide.
  • Thesis and roadmap appear early; sections build the argument step by step; objections-and-replies are integral, not appended.
  • Citation follows the journal's current style; footnotes carry qualifications and secondary dialectic.
  • Double-blind review: anonymize the manuscript (self-citations and acknowledgements) per current policy.
  • Prose is precise and accessible, keeping the practical stake visible to readers beyond the immediate sub-area.
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Official-submission checklist

  • Before giving submission-ready advice, read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the press/society anchors, then cite the current Philosophy & Public Affairs page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "Philosophy and Public Affairs submission guidelines" (Wiley) and follow the current version.
  • Re-check article types, length expectations, and the abstract requirement.
  • Confirm the citation/style format and anonymization for double-blind review.
  • Re-check the journal's policy on prior presentation/preprints, simultaneous submission, and AI-use disclosure.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • There is a single, clearly stated, original thesis that bears on a genuine public concern.
  • The argument is valid and each premise — including any empirical premise — is motivated and defined.
  • The strongest objections, including a thoughtful policy interlocutor's, are engaged and answered.
  • Engagement with the current political/moral philosophy literature is fair and non-padding.
  • The manuscript is anonymized and follows the current citation style.
  • The practical stake stays visible; the piece remains philosophy, not a policy report.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • Abstract moral or political theory with no discernible bearing on a matter of public concern.
  • Opinion or advocacy on a public issue with no rigorous philosophical argument.
  • A policy report or empirical summary dressed as philosophy, with no conceptual contribution.
  • An argument that ignores or only gestures at the strongest opposing positions.
  • Imprecise theses, undefined key terms, or overstated empirical premises.
  • Better-fit elsewhere: a moral-theory or metaethics paper that Ethics would serve.

Re-routing decision

  • Moral-theoretical or metaethical center of gravity → ethics.
  • Equally strong generalist article with broad philosophical reach → the-philosophical-review / nous / the-journal-of-philosophy.
  • Broad philosophy, especially in the UK tradition → mind.
  • Short, focused normative argument or counterexample → analysis.
  • Aesthetics / philosophy of art with a public dimension → the-journal-of-aesthetics-and-art-criticism.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Philosophy & Public Affairs
[Public problem] <the matter of public concern at issue>
[Thesis] <the original claim in one line>
[Argument/engagement] <does the argument + objection-handling clear a rigorous public-significance bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <length / citation style / anonymization / preprint policy>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Philosophy And Public Affairs

What does Philosophy And Public Affairs do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs or deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue. Philosophy And Public Affairs is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs or deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue.

When should I use Philosophy And Public Affairs?

Philosophy And Public Affairs fits situations like: targeting Philosophy & Public Affairs; deciding whether an applied/political-moral philosophy manuscript on a matter of public concern fits this venue.

How do I install Philosophy And Public Affairs in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill philosophy-and-public-affairs -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Philosophy And Public Affairs in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill philosophy-and-public-affairs -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Philosophy And Public Affairs in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill philosophy-and-public-affairs -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs, .gemini/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs, .github/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs and .opencode/skills/philosophy-and-public-affairs in your project.

What does Philosophy And Public Affairs need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Philosophy And Public Affairs is instructions for the agent only.

Does Philosophy And Public Affairs access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Philosophy And Public Affairs safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Philosophy And Public Affairs use?

Philosophy And Public Affairs is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Philosophy And Public Affairs use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Philosophy And Public Affairs?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.