Tad Brennan (Philosophy, Northwestern) writes:
Last week's thread on philosophy journals was right in line with the
mission of the PGR: making widely available to philosophers and
philosophy grad students some important facts about how the
profession works. There was some healthy venting, some
not-so-healthy (in my opinion) piling-on, and now everyone has a
better sense of which journals are well-run and which are not (with
perhaps some reporting-bias from the deeply aggrieved).
Following on some thoughts that Chris Gauker and I have been emailing
to each other, how about a thread soliciting comparable plaudits and
plaints about book-publishers and the philosophical book world?
A good idea, so comments are open; no anonymous postings, of course. My own nominees for excellent presses would be Oxford University Press and Routledge, though in both cases, this has much to do with their being led by creative and highly knowledgeable editors, Peter Momtchiloff and Tony Bruce, respectively. Indeed, working with them has been so constructive and rewarding, that I've really had little occasion to work substantially with other no doubt good presses.
