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New Open Access Journal

Symposion has been relaunched as an open access, multilingual, quarterly, philosophy-centric interdisciplinary journal. Its first issue in its new format has just been published.

Making Philosophy Journal Statistics Publicly Available

Philipp Blum, one of the co-editors of the journal, dialectica, has a request for other journal editors:

I think it would be very helpful if philosophy journals would make
publicly available much more information on acceptance rates and
submission statistics.

He notes that dialectica has been doing this for 14 years; check out these charts and graphs, which could s..

Should Publishers Pay Referees and Authors?

If academic work is to be commodified and turned into a source of profit for shareholders and for the 1 percent of the publishing world, then we should give up our archaic notions of unpaid craft labor and insist on professional compensation for our expertise, just as doctors, lawyers, and accountants do.

This does not mean we would never referee articles free. Jus..

Must Journal Submissions Conform to Style Guidelines?

An assistant professor writes in with the following query:

Do journal editors ever reject something simply because it doesn’t fit the stated style guidelines? While it is becoming more popular for journals to state that guidelines need only be followed for accepted articles, a good amount of venerable journals still seem to require submissions to fit their guideline..

The inaugural issue of the academic journal Porn Studies is out, and it’s a big one, by which I mean it is a double issue. Not that size matters. The publisher, Taylor & Francis, has made the entire contents free to download, and after a cursory inspection I can report two things my readership probably wants to know: (1) it seems to be entirely SFW, and (2) it seems..

How Should Journals Instruct Referees?

“How, then, can philosophy become more inclusive and less boring?” Over at the Philosopher’s Cocoon, Marcus Arvan suggests that one way might be to have journals give referees different instructions from what they typically do.

Is “Life” Useless?

I have received lots of advice from friends about the blog, including “get a life.” Turns out this is easier said than done, since defining “life” is notoriously tricky. See t his post at Scientific American for some of the problems nailing down the concept, and for further discussion, check out this special issue of Synthese.

Thirty Takes on Free Will

You really have no choice but to check out this issue of Methode Journal featuring thirty short interviews with philosophers about free will. It’s a terrific line-up, and each interview is downloadable as its own pdf.

New Journal: Science, Religion, and Culture

A new, peer-reviewed, open-access, interdisciplinary journal, Science, Religion & Culture, has been launched by Smith & Franklin publishing. There are a number of philosophers on the editorial board, including editor-in-chief Gregg D. Caruso (Corning Community College, SUNY), who explains what the new journal is about in this piece.