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All about class.
*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
29. Should competitive examination questions obey Betteridge’s Law?
It’s likely that Notre Dame will return to a policy of requiring GREs next year (this year they’re officially optional…
Would love to see what a successful answer (in the view of the All Souls’ examiners) looks like.
That list of questions has a beauty to it, I swear.
A philosopher elsewhere writes:
“I’m trying to put…comments [received on the philosopher’s recent book] together in the form of a book symposium, which would also include my replies. After learning that PPR no longer publishes book symposia — I’m not sure why — it occurred to me that it might be useful to list journals that do so, and perhaps also to discuss how useful it is and how the books get selected.
Readers?
I think Analysis just ran a book symposium on Peter Langland-Hassan’s *Explaining Imagination*.
Yes, Analysis has a section, Analysis Reviews (with a separate Editorial Board), which publishes, among other things, book symposia.
https://academic.oup.com/analysis/pages/reviews_guidelines
I just learned via email this morning that the Nordic Wittgenstein Review has started organizing book symposia. A symposium on James Shaw’s “Wittgenstein on Rules” is now available for public comment: https://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/index
The International Journal of Philosophical Studies does. They actually have a very nice format: you have the usual brief pieces on the book alongside some standalone articles on the broader topic(s) of your book.
Doesn’t Analysis regularly do this?
Several journals do this on an ad hoc basis, when a book symposium is pitched to the editors who then agree. _Law and Philosophy_ does this semi-regularly, and I’ve taken part in one at the _European Journal of Political Theory_. The Italian journal _Filosofia e questioni pubbliche – Philosophy and Public Issues_ also regularly published book symposia. Information can be found here: https://www.fqpjournal.com/Page/t01/view_html?idp=25 . The _Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics_ also fairly regularly publishes book symposia, though, I think, a bit less often than PPI. Some info here: https://ejpe.org/journal/about
Mind & Language
Philosophia
European Journal of Philosophy
Criminal Law and Philosophy regularly publishes book symposia (our December issue will be a special on Andrew Simester’s philosophically rich Fundamentals of Criminal Law). The choice of books is largely down to the Reviews Editor, with other editorial input, but we also occasionally respond positively to suggestions from others.
Here are some journals of political philosophy — a couple of them online only — that publish book symposia:
REVIEW OF POLITICS
CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC ISSUES (also above mentioned by Matt Lister)
LAW, ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY.
Anyone interested in publishing a symposium in one of these journals should check the journals’ websites or write to their editors for more information.
The journal *Metascience* also does book symposia. Or used to, until recently.
Journal of Moral Philosophy and CRISPP do if the book is in the relevant areas.
/History of European Ideas/ publishes symposia on books European intellectual history since the Renaissance, including the history of philosophy
I’m a bit late to the party here but the relatively new, Diamond Open Access (i.e. totally fee-free), journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences has done quite a few book symposia now.
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