MOVING TO THE FRONT (from December 8): the discussion has continued, and there is much interesting debate (and even a few fireworks) with contributions from Keith DeRose, Ken Taylor, Ralph Wedgwood, Gilbert Harman, John Hawthorne, and others. Most memorable comment, from Tom Hurka at Toronto:
Let’s see. Like Keith DeRose I’m getting e-mails from people in less prestigious departments thanking me for raising an issue they’re very disturbed by but don’t feel safe raising themselves. And then there are reassuring posts from senior folks at Stanford, Oxford, and Princeton saying don’t worry, cronyism doesn’t happen, it’s just excellence being recognized. How much fancy epistemology does it take to figure out what’s going on? Could it be that sitting in the centre of circles of privilege makes it harder to see that they’re there?
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Ted Warfield (Philosophy, Notre Dame) has raised some interesting issues here about publication practices in philosophy, especially in invitation-only journals.
UPDATE: The editor of the journal issue in question in Professor Warfield's post has added some pertinent information to the thread linked, above. Those who checked the discussion earlier should probably look again now.
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