John Martin Fischer (UC Riverside) writes:

You might be interested in this post on the gfp in which we are announcing an indefinite hiatus.  We frankly were distressed over time with a lowering of the quality of discussion.  I resonate with your recent post in which you talk about some of the problems of the blogosphere.

Bottom line: it was a great run, and a fun experiment.  But in the end I really want something more disciplined and of higher quality.  Perhaps something will emerge in the future.

A shame, but the problems GFP confronted are real.  Only aggressive moderation can sustain serious philosophical discussion in cyberspace.  Question:  will some of the other philosophy blogs committed to substantive discussion (including many of those noted here) survive?