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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (more…)

The Complete Carnap: Online and Open-Access

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) are launching a joint project to digitize and place online the complete works of Rudolf Carnap. (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…)

Open Access Philosophy Books

It’s International Open Access Week. (more…)

Philosopher Wins Open Access Award

Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is one of the winners of the 2025 Open Access Award. (more…)

New Editorial Team at Philosophy & Public Affairs

Philosophy & Public Affairs, the highly regarded philosophy journal whose future was put in doubt when all of its editors and editorial board resigned en masse this past spring to form a new journal, has a new editorial team. (more…)

“Free & Equal” Now Open To Submissions

Free & Equal: a Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs, the open-access journal created by the editorial team that resigned en masse from the Wiley-published Philosophy & Public Affairs earlier this year, now has a home on the internet and as of today is accepting submissions. (more…)

A Different Open Access Model for Journals

Recent discussion of open-access journals and their financing prompted a reader to share information about a different model for publishers and journals converting to open-access, known as “subscribe-to-open”. (more…)

Journal Created from the Ashes of PPA Gets Name, Editor-In-Chief (updated)

In May, the executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of the influential journal, Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPA), resigned and in June PPA’s editor-in-chief, Anna Stilz (Berkeley) also left. (more…)

The Case for Diamond Open Access

“As editors of one of our field’s leading journals, we feel a strong responsibility to help build collective momentum towards a better arrangement: a publishing model that no longer wastes massive amounts of public resources feeding profits to private corporations, secures editorial independence against the pressures of profit-making and makes research available to ..

Journal of the APA to Go Open Access

In less than two weeks, the Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JAPA) will transition into an open access journal. (more…)

Editors at Philosophy & Public Affairs Resign; Will Launch New OA Journal

The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have resigned en masse.

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The Challenges of a Large Interdisciplinary Project (guest post)

Over the past decade or so we’ve seen philosophers win sizable grants for projects involving multiple teams of researchers with different disciplinary and institutional homes.

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Dialectica and the Challenges of Converting a Journal to Open Access

A reader recently pointed out that the philosophy journal Dialectica in 2020 became an open access journal, after 15 years of being published by Blackwell-Wiley, but that the journal’s latest issue was dated 2020. What’s going on at this journal? (more…)

Philosophers, Should You Pay to Publish Your Paper? (guest post)

“In a survey of 27 philosophy of science journal editors we conducted in 2023, many, if not most of them, did not know that they were working in a transformative journal.” A what now? (more…)

Open Access Journals in Philosophy

How many open access philosophy journals are there? Take a guess. (more…)

The Future of Philosophy Journals

“What is the future of philosophy journals?” (more…)

Utilitas Becomes Open Access

At the end of October, Utilitas, one of the leading journals in moral philosophy, converted to an open-access publication. (more…)

Logic Courseware, Surveyed (guest post)

What materials exist for teaching large introductory logic courses, and how do they compare? (more…)

Over 1000 Academics Sign Onto Pending Work Stoppage at the Journal of Political Philosophy

Over 1,000 academics have added their names to a resolution pledging that, as of the end of 2023, they will not submit manuscripts to, review articles for, or accept invitations to join the editorial board of the Journal of Political Philosophy, unless its publisher, Wiley, meets certain conditions, including rescinding its decision to fire the journal’s editor-in-c..

New Project to Fund Converting Journals to Open Access

Editors of academic philosophy journals whose content is largely behind paywalls may be interested in applying to a new program from MIT Press that will “cover the expenses of transitioning a journal to open access model for a three-year term, provide the Press’s full suite of publishing services, and support the development of a sustainable funding model for the fu..

New Publishing Arrangements for “Thought: A Journal of Philosophy”

Crispin Wright (NYU), one of the editors of Thought, tells us that the journal has a new publisher and is moving to an open access arrangement.

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Free Business Ethics Course Materials

A team of scholars at Georgetown University have developed a set of open-access resources for teaching and learning business ethics. (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…)

New: Journal of Spinoza Studies

The Journal of Spinoza Studies (JSS) is a new, online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that “aims to publish original, innovative scholarly work on any aspect of Spinoza’s thought or its reception, and is committed to promoting a lively exchange of ideas among scholars working in different intellectual and philosophical traditions.” (more…)