Where Should I Publish My X-Phi? A New Resource (guest post)

Some philosophy journals seem friendlier to work in experimental philosophy (x-phi) than others. You may have a sense about this when it comes to some journals, but with others it can be hit-or-miss. Would it be useful to you to have more information handy about whether particular journals tend to publish x-phi? If so, then you can thank Sinéad Cleary (Oxford), Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford), and Alexander Max Bauer (Oldenburg) for a new resource they’ve created to help scholars figure out where to publish their x-phi. In the following guest post, they describe the site and ask some questions the answers to which might help them improve it. (A version of this post first appeared at The Experimental Philosophy Blog.) Where should I publish my X-Phi? A New Resource by Sinéad Cleary, Joanna Demaree-Cotton, and Alexander Max Bauer We (Sinéad Cleary, Joanna Demaree-Cotton, and Alexander Max Bauer) are excited to announce a new community resource to help experimental philosophers choose journals for their work: (Where To Publish X-Phi Site) (Direct Link to Spreadsheet) After another recent round of identifying a suitable journal for one of our own recent experimental philosophy manuscripts (going through the process of identifying prospective journals with any record of publishing experimental studies, as well as basics—subfield, word count, etc.) we figured: why not pool the community’s knowledge and resources? The result is a crowd-sourced, interactive table compiling journals that publish experimental philosophy. The table includes links to official journal guidelines as well as existing crowdsourced metrics and sources, and lets users filter and sort by keywords and various categories. This resource was partly inspired by the memory of a previous resource compiled by Justin Sytsma in 2018 (see here and here). However, some things have (happily for x-phi) changed since then. To give just one example, while in 2018 Justin noted only one experimental paper published in Ergo, this journal now has an area editor in the field of experimental philosophy (shout out to Pascale Willemsen!) and a number of great experimental philosophy papers have appeared on its pages in recent years. We have not attempted any analysis of change over time, nor have we attempted to replicate Justin’s efforts to quantify how much x-phi is published where. But we expect things have changed.. The post Where Should I Publish My X-Phi? A New Resource (guest post) first appeared on Daily Nous.