Here is the latest announcement of note:
We unanimously leave our editorial roles at Philosophy and Social Affairs, published by Wiley, and introduces the new Diamond open access journal published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). We will all play the same editorial role in the new journal and will maintain the goal of publishing the best philosophical work that touches on issues of social importance.
Read the whole text, but you can imagine how the arguments go. Many big names are behind this, including Sen, Scheffler, Srinivasan, Waldron, and others. I fight for them, but can this work?
How sticky are the shadows anyway? Nine months from now, what percentage of the people on the university-wide committee will know about this change? Three years from now?
Or consider the new journal itself. Without a long history of popular articles behind it, could it, with the same set of editors, have a lower reputation? Talk about feelings!
Or does the existence of a “naming dispute” itself discredit the old magazine and the new business? “Well, if they can’t get along, both stores will have trouble managing their reputation in the future…”
Or could some of the respected editors, in the long run, be more willing to leave than they would have been under the old moniker? Perhaps the newly formed board will not be able to keep up with it on its own, without the last backstop of the “company” (Wiley) to force the basis of all negotiations.
If I’m in my second year of work in a philosophy department, and I have a good paper, do I submit it to a new journal? In its former guise it was a premium outlet, but is it still? What risks am I running? Or I send it to something that was invented Philosophy and Social Affairswhich may still have excellent new editors.
I’ll be watching.
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