Comments on: Journal of Political Philosophy 15 (4), Dec 2007

By: Dave Estlund

Dave Estlund — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:09:05 +0000

BEARS didn’t receive enough submissions, so we had to rustle up symposia, which were a lot of work (but very good I think). Jamie Dreier and I have retired BEARS and moved over to the new online journal, The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (www.jesp.org). We’re intending to start up a new version of the BEARS idea on that journal, and this conversation will spur me to remind the other editors that we had agreed to do that. I’m glad people would value it, and I’ll sign you all up to contribute article reviews…

I’m thrilled about the reading group on my book too. I’ll try not to chime in too much.

By: David J Watkins

David J Watkins — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:02:51 +0000

I’d be very interested in seeing whether political philosophers would be inclined to post short, rough, informal discussions of published journal articles on a fairly regular basis

For my money, this is one of the most promising areas for academic blogs; it’s something traditional academic publishing has very limited opportunities for.

By: Thom Brooks

Thom Brooks — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:54:10 +0000

All fair enough. Either way, delighted about the reading group and looking forward to hearing more in due course!

By: Simon Cabulea May

Simon Cabulea May — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:41:24 +0000

Yes, I think that there may be a case for bringing BEARS out of hibernation, now we’re in Web 2.0 and all that. In any event, I’d like to hear more about what happened there. The curious thing is that they had a lot of reviews in the first year or two, then it seemed to slow down a lot before picking up at the end. Hopefully, this site will provide some impetus to getting interesting articles discussed both quickly and broadly, which may in turn help in provide impetus to publishing high quality article reviews on the internet.

Re: the Estlund reading group, Jonathan is organising that. The idea is to start in January, but he’ll provide more information in due course. My copy of the book has shipped from Amazon.com — hopefully Amazon.co.uk is on the same schedule.

By: Thom Brooks

Thom Brooks — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:54:47 +0000

I am all for more commentary on recent papers and hope to contribute on more shortly.

On BEARS, I suspect there may be a case for begging Dave Estlund to re-start it.

Speaking of Estlund, shall we formally agree a reading group on his new book (as suggested in previous posts)? Public Reason bloggers might each agree to lead discussion on a chapter, not unlike the blog Ethics Etc online reading group.

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:45:44 +0000

I think BEARS was primarily too soon.