Daily Nous has reported that a new editorial team has resurrected the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPA), owned by Wiley. This news comes barely a month after I published a call to action on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY urging philosophers to boycott Wiley and other predatory publishers. Here, I will review some of Wiley’s offenses against PPA’s former editorial board, and […]
Boycott Predatory Journals Now!
The term “predatory” was originally used to describe journals that charge authors high publication fees without providing genuine peer review or editorial services. Beal’s list of “potential predatory journals and publishers” includes titles like British Open Research Publications, which charges $300 to publish research from authors in high-income countries. These journals are also thought to have low editorial standards, […]
The Referee Crisis, Neoliberalism, & Sad Beige Philosophy
This is part of a 3-part series. You can find the second and third posts here and here. This post is dedicated to the generous philosofriends who refereed papers for me. Last month, I finished editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist perspectives on moral responsibility, which is (miraculously) scheduled to be published in […]