Jordan's Free Voices

Academics write 'literature reviews', and talk about 'logical space'. I wonder if there's any way to literally map out the existing literature, with nodes and connections, to provide an explicit representation of our communal knowledge? Two kinds of map Read More...

Truepath argues that " Academic philosophy creates a structural incentive to be insufficiently critical and arrive at the wrong answers. " I thought I should make a new thread to continue the discussion. His latest comment follows: Well no, I don't expect Read More...

I want to say a little more about how academics might hope to take advantage of the shift to a ' publish, then filter ' world. The first thing to note is that we already solicit and offer each other informal feedback (i.e. outside of the journal peer Read More...

Crooked Timber has an interesting discussion about publishing in open access journals, and what it would take to get people to make the switch. For an even better read, see the old Leiter Reports thread: ' Time to End For-Profit Journals? ' As Tim Crane Read More...

Hmmm . The work done on disability by most bioethicists breeds contempt for disabled people and fosters condescending, dismissive and patronizing responses to their testimonials and subjective accounts about their own lives. Imagine what it is like to Read More...