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Reader Howard Simmons writes:
Did you know The Philosopher's Magazine had closed down? I don't think this has been widely publicized online. I only know because I tried to submit a paper to them and the email bounced back. The website gives a phone number, which I called, and was told they had closed.
Comments are open in any case anyone knows what happened. I had been unaware of its closure.
I was asked to write a book review for them in Fall 2023, which I did. After I had written the review, in January this year I was told that TPM had been struggling financially and its owners had been looking for a new publisher, but this hadn't been successful and so the next issue wouldn't be coming out in print. I was also told at that point that TPM will continue to have a website and to publish things there, which seems to be the case though I haven't heard back about the book review…
Don't know anything about the goings on there. Just want to point out that they published Kodsi's review of Byrne's Book (I think) only two days ago, which you reported yesterday. The shut down would have to be extremely recent, maybe so recent that they still had papers to publish before officially announcing the shutdown.
Kodsi's piece: https://philosophersmag.com/unexceptional-sex/
BL Post: https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2024/09/alex-byrnes-trouble-with-gender-reviewed.html
I check their website from time to time and for a fairly long time it was unchanged, but when I just checked, it has a whole new look. So I doubt that it's gone out of business.
I hope not. Jeremy Stangroom, one of the editors and founders, dedicated one of his books to the memory of my son Pablo after we had talked about him in an email conversation. I'm not in touch with Jeremy, but I wish him and his magazine very well.
Here's the answer. It no longer appears in print, but it's a "rebranded online publication".
This does not accord with what I was told in my phone conversation. I forget the exact wording, but it was something to the effect that the magazine no longer existed, not that it had become online only. Also, why would my email have bounced back?
See also this site, which confirms the closure:
http://www.pdcnet.org/tpm/The-Philosophers-Magazine#:~:text=TPM%20ceased%20publication%20in%202023,accessible%20for%20a%20
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