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TagPublishing, Teaching, and the Philosophy Job Market (guest post)
How many publications do early career job applicants in academic philosophy have? How many courses have they taught? How have the answers to these questions changed over the past decade? (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…)
Calling Dibs in Philosophy
Barry Lam (UC Riverside) wrote recently about the practice of “calling dibs.” (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…)
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…)
Copyright, Publishers, and Your Anthropic Payout
In October, a settlement was announced in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, providing authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation of around $3000. There were certain eligibility conditions, though. (more…)
Open Access Philosophy Books
Neil Mehta’s Guide to Professional Philosophy
“It is often thought that philosophical excellence is the sole province of the genius. I by contrast believe that it can be achieved through countless small techniques that can be taught and learned.” (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…)
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…)
What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (updated)
Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms of service. (more…)
Philosophy’s Journal Problem Captured in One Number?
In the first six months of 2025, a top philosophy journal received 403 submissions. Of those, how many did it accept during that time? (more…)
The Ethics of Using AI in Philosophical Research
“How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?”
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Nature to Include Reviewer Reports & Author Replies with Published Articles
From now on, “new submissions of manuscripts that are published as research articles in Nature will automatically include a link to the reviewers’ reports and author responses.” (more…)
Momtchiloff Consulting for Lex Academic
Peter Momtchiloff, who retired from his long-held position as philosophy editor at Oxford University Press at the end of 2023, has been brought on by Lex Academic, a firm that helps its clients with various aspects of academic publishing. (more…)
A Philosopher’s Advice on How to Write & Publish an Article
Want some advice on writing and publishing good philosophy in a good journal? (more…)
Acquisitions, Revenue, and Morale Down at Harvard University Press
“Harvard University Press published 142 new titles in the fall of 2016. Last fall, it put out just 26.” (more…)
A Mysterious Publication (updates, incl. response from publisher)
(ETA: See Update 5, below, from Springer.)
An article published recently in Synthese caught the eye of a few Daily Nous readers. (more…)
The First Year of Political Philosophy (the Journal)
In the beginning of 2024, a new journal, Political Philosophy, started accepting submissions. How is it doing? (more…)
Why Do Journal Articles Linger in “Online First”?
Some philosophy journals have a lot of articles in “online first” status. They’ve been accepted, copyedited, and typeset, but not yet assigned an issue. Why? (more…)
Competent Referees for Controversial Ideas
“I think Jeff McMahan is in for the surprise of his life when the submissions to his new journal start coming in.” (more…)
Transferring Referee Reports from One Journal to Another
Several publishers have policies that say that a manuscript rejected by one of its journals may be referred to another of its journals. (more…)
Publishers Want To Sell Companies the Right to Train AI on Your Books: Should You Consent?
Should authors consent to have their publishers grant licensing requests by firms and projects to allow them to train their generative AI on their books? (more…)
An Unexpected “Solution” to the Publishing Crisis?
What will the academic humanities look like in twenty years? (more…)
Publishers Using AI-Written Abstracts of Your Work – CORRECTION
Academic publishing corporation Wiley appears to be using a large language model (such as ChatGPT) to generate abstracts for works it publishes, without involving the author—and they may not be good. (more…)
Little Things Journals Can Change Now To Improve the Review Process
Maybe you’re among those who are hoping for drastic changes to the practices and norms of reviewing manuscripts for publication in philosophy journals. (more…)
Philosophers Available To Referee
Some people are asked to referee papers for philosophy journals way too much. Others are asked less frequently. (more…)