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A Meta-Epistemological Reason for Rejecting AI-Written Philosophy

“The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text were generated by an LLM.” (more…)

Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up (guest post) (updated)

“Philosophy’s broadening impact has generated increasing interest from industries looking to partner with academic philosophers. Ties are now especially common between philosophers and technology companies producing AI products. These changes call for discipline-wide reflection on the norms of research integrity.” (more…)

Utilitas Pausing Submissions, Bringing on More Editors

The philosophy journal Utilitas is temporarily halting submissions.

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The New Open-Access Journal Philosophical Logic Is Now Publishing

Last December, all of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic resigned and formed Philosophical Logic, a new “diamond” open-access journal (details here). (more…)

Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online

What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? (more…)

Illicit Use of AI by Philosophers Refereeing for Journals

In 2024, a study found that “7–17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs”. It was only a matter of time before this spread, and now it appears to have reached philosophy. (more…)

Where Should I Publish My X-Phi? A New Resource (guest post)

Some philosophy journals seem friendlier to work in experimental philosophy (x-phi) than others. (more…)

New: The Journal of Natural Law

The Journal of Natural Law is a new peer-reviewed journal “committed to publishing the best interdisciplinary research on natural law in philosophy, theology, and legal theory.” (more…)

Philosophy: More Empirical Than Ever

“In the early 1970s, fewer than 10% of articles cited any empirical sources. However, by the 2020s, this grew to over 50%.” (more…)

How Much Time Do Journals Give Their Referees?

Elizabeth Hannon, deputy editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS), has a query about other philosophy journals. (more…)

Problems with Publishers Moving to AI-Based Production

Straive is a firm that uses AI to, among other things, help publishers with various tasks “across the publishing value chain”. (more…)

New Journal: Experimental Philosophy

A new peer-reviewed open-access journal, Experimental Philosophy, has been launched. (more…)

Editors at Springer’s Journal of Philosophical Logic Resign, Launch New Open Access Journal

All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal, Philosophical Logic. (more…)

Ethics Announces AI Policy

Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors, and reviewers. (more…)

Editor of Ethics Floats AI-Use Guidelines

In a recent editorial, Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), the editor-in-chief of Ethics, sets forth some “initial guidelines” about AI use for the journal. (more…)