Brian Leiter reported a couple of days ago on the accepted papers for this year’s Philosopher’s Annual. At risk of violating some copyrights, here’s the list:
Nomy Arpaly, Moral Worth, from the Journal of Philosophy.
Ned Block, The Harder Problem of Consciousness, from the Journal of Philosophy.
Michael Friedman, Kant, Kuhn and the Rationality of Science, from Philosophy of Science.
Hans Halvorson and Rob Clifton, No Place for Particles in Relativistic Quantum Theories?, from Philosophy of Science.
John Hawthorne, Deeply Contingent A Priori Knowledge, from Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Richard G. Heck, Jr., Do Demonstratives Have Senses?, from Philosophers Imprint.
Karen Jones, The Politics of Credibility, from Louise M. Antony and Charlotte E. Witt, A Mind of Ones Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, Westview Press.
Marc Lange, Whos Afraid of Ceteris-Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them, from Erkenntnis.
Derk Pereboom, Robust Nonreductive Materialism, from the Journal of Philosophy.
Christopher F. Zurn, Deliberative Democracy and Constitutional Review, from Law and Philosophy.
Congrats to all, especially to my current colleague Nomy Arpaly, and to my former colleague and sometime co-author John Hawthorne.
What’s particularly worth noting on this list though, especially in light of some of one of my running themes, is the inclusion of an article from Philosophers’ Imprint. This is, I would think, another sign that electronic publication, or at least at least credibly refereed electronic publication, is being taken seriously in the profession. I think that with any new journal, print or electronic, younger philosophers might be wary of publishing in it until they see what its reputation will be. This is another sign that Philosophers’ Imprint is quite well regarded.
By the way, last time I sang PI’s praises I forgot to put in a plug for NDPR. My mistake – it’s also a very good publication. My guess is that for book reviews it’s now as important as any publication in the country except, perhaps, Philosophical Review.
I try and keep in touch with lots of things, but due to the vagaries of electronic access, only two of those papers were published in journals I regularly read – Richard Heck’s paper and John Hawthorne’s. Maybe I need to be reading more widely. I’d been so hoping that I could start narrowing down.