Public Philosophy Journal

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The Transformative Power of Publishing

Earlier this summer, I had the honor of offering the closing keynote address of the 2019 Association of University Presses annual conference held in Detroit. The address was entitled The Transformative Power of Publishing, and…

Christopher LongAugust 5, 2019

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

Practicing Public Philosophy

“Practicing Public Scholarship.” Public Philosophy Journal 1, no. 1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.25335/m5/ppj.1.1-1. Situating the Public Philosophy Journal at the intersection of philosophy and questions of public concern, this essay articulates how the journal hopes to practice…

Christopher LongApril 23, 2018

Digital Scholarship The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

Collaborative Philosophy

The fog had receded when Danielle, Anne Marie, and Lisa moved out onto the back porch of the Inn at the Presidio to continue writing. I could hear their heated conversation unfolding below my second…

Christopher LongJune 14, 2015

Digital Dialogue Podcast The Public Philosophy Journal

Digital Dialogue 73: Public Philosophy Journal Writing Workshop 2015

We held the first Public Philosophy Journal Writing Workshop at the Inn at the Presidio this to facilitate the work of five collaborative projects. On episode 73 of the Digital Dialogue, each collaborative writing team joins me…

Christopher LongJune 12, 2015

The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

The @PubPhilJ Paradigm

At Bucknell's Digital Scholarship Conference last fall, Zeynep Tufekci made a compelling case for public academic writing. Her keynote address, Researching Out Loud: Public Scholarship as a Process of Publishing Before and After Publishing, argued…

Christopher LongJanuary 25, 2015

Digital Scholarship The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

Thick Collegiality

The Public Philosophy Journal project has been animated from the beginning by the attempt to cultivate excellent habits of scholarly communication in a digital age. To do so will require finding ways to develop thick…

Christopher LongOctober 23, 2014

Presentation: Academic Vita

Philosophy and the Networked Public

Philosophy has always been a public activity, although its relationship with the public and its own public nature have long been fraught with anxiety for philosophy and the public both. At this year’s Society for…

Christopher LongOctober 23, 2014

Presentations The Public Philosophy Journal Vita

The Public Philosophy Journal at #DH2014

In this poster session, we present the project of the Public Philosophy Journal and our plans for cultivating a community of engaged scholars to sustain it. At the session, we explain our motivations for designing…

Christopher LongJuly 10, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive The Public Philosophy Journal Vita

Public Digital Scholarship: The @PubPhilJ at the #APAEastern

This presentation on the Public Philosophy Journal, invited by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy, provides an update on the status of the development of the open access, open peer review journal. However difficult it…

Christopher LongDecember 29, 2013

The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

The Peer Review Coordinator and the Collegiality Index

As we sought to map out the design and functionality of the PPJ with colleagues at Matrix a few weeks ago, we began to suggest how a disciplinary economy of an open peer review might be navigated…

Christopher LongNovember 27, 2013

Digital Dialogue Podcast The Public Philosophy Journal

Digital Dialogue 68: Building the PPJ

During our first planning trip to Matrix at Michigan State to develop the Public Philosophy Journal, Mark Fisher and I sat down to talk with Ethan Watrall and Bill Hart-Davidson about creating the journal as…

Christopher LongNovember 20, 2013

The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

The Disciplinary Economy of Open Peer Review

There seems to be widespread skepticism that peer review without anonymity can be both rigorous and fair. This post thinks through the dynamics of an open peer review process and suggests that both rigor and…

Christopher LongNovember 18, 2013

Digital Dialogue Podcast Technology

Digital Dialogue 66: Sustainable Scholarship

Almost immediately upon being awarded a $236K Mellon Grant to develop the Public Philosophy Journal, Mark Fisher, Dean Rehberger and I found ourselves in New York at the 2013 Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship conference to learn…

Christopher LongNovember 1, 2013

Academic Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Long Road

The End of the Beginning and the Path Ahead for @PubPhilJ

On Friday, October 4th, we received the good news that the Mellon Foundation's Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program will provide $236K to support the development of the Public Philosophy Journal (PPJ, aka @PubPhilJ). The grant marks the end of…

Christopher LongOctober 18, 2013

Grants, Fellowships, Awards Vita

The Public Philosophy Journal $236,000 Mellon Grant

The Public Philosophy Journal, an innovative open access, open peer review online publication in philosophy, has received a one-year, $236,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support the development of the…

Christopher LongOctober 16, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

PPJ Workshop at PPN13

Publicness and collaboration are two of the virtues we hope the Public Philosophy Journal will embody. To that end, we want the creation and development of the journal to put those virtues into practice. So,…

Christopher LongMarch 16, 2013

Academic The Long Road

What is Public Philosophy?

As we begin to articulate the contours of the Public Philosophy Journal, some account of the meaning of the public philosophy the journal intends to practice may help us continue to cultivate the community on…

Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Philosophy is often mistakenly viewed as distant from public life, secluded in the Ivory Tower away from the public concerns of civil society. However, the affordances of digital scholarly communication have enabled philosophers increasingly to…

Christopher LongFebruary 15, 2013

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