On Book Reviews

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There has been discussion among some philosophers on social media about the decline in the number of book reviews published by Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR).


[detail of “Pile of Books” by Cornelius Volker]

Last year NDPR published 65 book reviews. But in the years 2006-2019 the number of reviews published there annually ranged from 250 to 426.

Of course, NDPR isn’t the only outlet for reviews of philosophy books. Many journals publish book reviews.

Last year, in attempt to provide a central hub for the listing of these book reviews, and greater publicity for them, Daily Nous started including in its Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Updates book reviews published in journals, provided they were open access.

Responsibility is with the journals to let us know when new open access reviews are published, however, and only a small number of journals do so regularly.

If more journals made their book reviews open access, and more journals regularly sent in to us their open access book reviews for inclusion in the Weekly Updates, that might go some of the ways to making up for the slowdown at NDPR. Journal editors, please consider doing both of these things, if possible. Thanks.

 

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