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?
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