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How Much Do Philosophers Referee?

Last week, we asked how many journal submissions philosophers in various positions referee each year. (more…)

What Can Journals, Publishers, and Authors Do Now to Improve the Publication Process in Philosophy?

A postdoctoral fellow at a prestigious university recently wrote in to share their story of a leading journal that took three months to desk-reject their submission. The experience, they wrote, was an example of “how dysfunctional publishing in philosophy journals can be.” (more…)

How Much Do You Referee?

How many journal submissions do you referee each year? (more…)

New Editorial Team at Philosophia

In the wake of controversies over Philosophia‘s publishing of articles on “Jewish Influence” (see here), its editor’s decisions regarding referees (see here), and its editorial processes (see here), the journal’s publisher, Springer, has brought on a new editor. (more…)

2021 Philosopher’s Annual

Philosopher’s Annual has released its 41st volume, covering the literature from 2021. (more…)

Call for Refereeing Data from Journal Editors

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen complaints from journal editors about the difficulty of finding referees and managing the refereeing process in a timely way but also some commentary suggesting that there may not be a problem. (more…)

How Editors Can Use PhilPeople to Find Referees

At least part of the “referee crisis” in philosophy comes from the fact that many philosophers are never or only rarely asked to referee. How can editors find these relatively untapped referees? (more…)

How to Fix the Referee Crisis in Professional Philosophy (guest post)

In the following guest post, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) provides a two-step solution to the referee crisis in philosophy. (more…)

Is Peer Review in Philosophy “Broken Beyond Reasonable Repair”?

Over at The Philosopher’s Cocoon, Helen de Cruz (SLU) laments her experiences with peer review from the perspective of an editor trying to get submissions refereed, saying “it is my strong suspicion that the peer review system is finally broken beyond reasonable repair.” (more…)

Why a Crowd-Sourced Peer-Review System Would Be Good for Philosophy (guest post)

Would “an online, crowd-sourced peer-review system” work better than traditional peer-review as a “quality control device” in philosophy? In a paper forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, three philosophers, Marcus Arvan (Tampa), Liam Kofi Bright (LSE), and Remco Heesen (Western Australia), argue for a positive answer to this question. (m..

A Public Database of Referee Service (guest post)

A few years ago, Neil Sinhababu, associate professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore, wrote about the “publication crisis” in academic philosophy in a post entitled “2,000 Spaces for 10,000 Papers: Why Everything Gets Rejected & Referees Are Exhausted.” In this guest post*, he follows up with a proposal for how to help make things better. (more..

Areas/Topics of Submissions to Generalist Philosophy Journals

Some philosophical areas (and topics) don’t show up often in the pages of prestigious generalist philosophy journals. Is it because the journals don’t get many submissions in those areas? (And if so, why not?) (more…)

New: Annals of Mathematics and Philosophy

A new journal, The Annals of Mathematics and Philosophy, will soon be releasing its first issue. (more…)

News About Two Open-Access Philosophy Journals

One philosophy journal has shed its corporate publisher to protect its current open-access status, while another has initiated a funding plan that offers departments of philosophy institutional memberships. (more…)

Philosophy Journal Hosts Debate on “Jewish Influence” (updates: Article Retracted; New Editor Installed at Journal)

Have Jews insinuated themselves into positions of power and influence in politics and culture because they are innately gifted with higher IQs, or is it also because they are ethnocentric and hypocritical networkers good at using non-Jews in their self-serving mission of “transforming America contrary to white interests”? Race science and/or conspiracy theory? This-..

Which Philosopher Co-Authors Most?

In the wake of last week’s post about trends in co-authoring in philosophy, a discussion has been taking place on Twitter about which philosophers co-author the most. (more…)

Rejection After Positive Referee Reports

When an author gets all fairly positive referee reports (acceptance, conditional acceptance) on a manuscript, but the editors decide not to accept it, what kind of explanation, if any, is it reasonable for the author to expect? (more…)

Journal News: Philosophical Psychology and Neuroethics (guest post)

This guest post * provides some information about recent changes at two interdisciplinary journals, including one from which a previous editor resigned last year following a controversy surrounding a piece published in it. The authors are Lisa Bortolotti, professor of philosophy at the University of Birmingham, and Katrina Sifferd, professor of philosophy at Elmhurst..

Co-Authorship in Philosophy over the Past 120 Years (by Bourget & Weinberg)

“We think philosophy is due an ethos change; one where the myth of the ‘lone genius’ is dispelled and where co-authoring is both encouraged and acknowledged.”

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Discipline Size and Progress, in General and in Philosophy

When a field of study becomes large enough, its size “may impede the rise of new ideas,” according to Johan S.G. Chu and James A. Evans, in a new paper, “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science,” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)

How Can Journals Better Serve Authors?

A philosopher who was recently appointed to an editorial position at an academic journal has a question for authors. (more…)

The Different Ways Philosophy Journals May Be Good Journals

Who is the best philosopher? What is the best philosophical idea? What’s the best philosophy book ever written? These are, to put it politely, not the best questions. (more…)