We've written an article based on the PhilPapers Survey of professional philosophers: What Do Philosophers Believe?. It covers the popularity of various views; correlations with age, gender, and geography; a factor analysis that tries to isolate important underlying factors; and discussion of the results of the Metasurvey, bringing out just how surprising some of the survey results are. There are various goodies along the way that haven't been previously revealed. The article is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. We'll be submitting the final version soon, but in the meantime all comments are welcome in the article's discussion forum (see "discussion" at the bottom of the page linked above).

I have found quite many philosophical texts about the "Resurrection of Jesus". I suggest that we need a leaf category for this under "Christianity" with an alias under "Miracles". They do not fit into "Resurrection" because that is about human life after death. (The articles that should be in "Resurrection" in my view could all be in "Afterlife".)
Daniel

Good day,
My leaf category ‘Miracles, Misc.‘ contains already 261 texts, and I will find more. I propose a few new leaf categories:
* The definition of the concept of a miracle (or omit 'The definition of')

* The possibility and nature of miracles (or omit 'and nature') (for all the discussions about whether and how there is room for miracles, about whether in a miracle God makes the wave function collapse, etc.)

* Epistemological questions about miracles.
Yours,
Daniel

Good day,
I find no suitable leaf categories for
- German 17th century philosophy, often called Protestant Scholasticism, e.g. Taurellus, Christoph Scheibler, Cornelius Martini, Clemens Timpler. There is a lot of these texts! They  are all in Latin. This movement begins quite precisely in 1598. At http://von-wachter.de/scans.htm you find a list of these philosophers. I propose a category "17th Century German Philosophy" for them. Alternatively, it could be "17th Century Philosophy" (including British, French and other philosophers too) or "Protestant Scholasticism".

- German realist 18th century philosophy, e.g. Christian Thomasius, Christian August Crusius, Martin Knutzen, Johann Franz Budde, Joachim Lange, August Friedrich Müller, Johann Georg Walch, and if we take Christian von Wolff to be a realist, he fits into this group too. Some of this is in Latin, some in German. They could be put into a category "18th century German philosophy, misc." or "18th century German reali ... (read more)

We are pleased to announce that PhilPapers now accepts papers in any language.

As a pilot project, the index has been enriched with a large database of Polish publication data maintained by members of the Centre for Philosophical Research. We are grateful to Paweł Grabarczyk, Katarzyna Kuś and Piotr Wilkin for their work on this project, which has been financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Publications in languages other than Polish are not systematically covered at this time, but we will improve our coverage over time. For now, we are accepting submissions of individual items in other languages. We are also open to recommendations for philosophical journals in other languages that should be included in our database, especially if they have an electronic feed. If you are interested in helping to develop systematic coverage in other languages, please contact us.

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Analytic/synthetic and a priori/ a posteriori distinctions? 

Why refrain from asking the next questions that are directly related to these questions and distinctions already answered within the PhilPapers survey, namely: Are there analytic a priori judgments or statements?  Are there synthetic a priori judgments or statements (e.g., a straight line is the shortest distance between any two points)?  Synthetic a posteriori?  And (the anti-Kantian) analytic a posteriori? 

Depending upon one's view of contradictions, there could be a set of valid arguments supporting a fourth set of analytic a posteriori judgments or statements.  Anyway, it would be interesting to see if 1-5% made that distinction or sided with Kant against it.  I doubt it would be 0% though, and it is important to see how many would make the synthetic a priori distinction contra Hume, which has important implication in ethics and metaethics. 

Thanks,

William

As far as I can tell, there is no option to put "Philosophy of Education" as a sub-category.  There should be.  

Is there a way to delete items from my reading list? 

It is reasonable to suppose that academics must take a consultative role in their relationship with their students and that consequently students may have to wait for their queries to be considered. On this model I cannot find fault with the delay in non-professional users of PhilPapers needing to wait for their posts to appear, for discussion is something that takes place between academics and not between academics and students. More important again, the consultative role prevents scholastic dilution and dissolution of the University text into anecdote under a potential wave of less informed student contributions.

That would be the academic model employed by the University (which I have called the integral text), a model that safeguards knowledge. In this model knowledge such as ideas and personages is safeguarded by being integrated with other factual nodes or elements, such as style, date, syntax preferences, and these together form a net that must be laboriously learned, and where e ... (read more)

PhilPapers writers with no professional status have to wait for their forum posts to be ratified by an academic, as many of us already know. My posts sometimes take over three weeks to be ratified and appear, even if I have expressed some urgency concerning them. Late ratification makes it difficult to maintain a discussion and is a source of frustration. In my own case, I write here to hone my conceptual skills in preparation for a PhD (Kant and Wittgenstein; transcendental philosophy).

I do not know if different forums have different ratifiers. If this is so, it may be the reason why posts aren't regularly scrutinised for ratification. Another reason may be that post ratifiers are academics and so may be unable to attend to forum posts as often as they would like to because of their heavy work load.

Could there not be some sort of work-around? Here is one idea. I like to think that my posts demonstrate a fair degree of scholastic prowess and have generated some interest among readers h ... (read more)

I have been told a work of mine has is not in any leaf category. When I go to fix this I cannot see how to do it. The main category is fine - but how do I add leaf categories? I suspect I'm missing something obvious but what? Thank you.   .

Hi,
I note that next to items in PhilPapers with an empty abstract field there is a "fix it" link, which allows one to enter an abstract.

Is it intended that this should only be filled by an abstract written by the author of the piece?  Or would it be useful/helpful to have abstracts written by others when the field is otherwise empty?

Kind regards

Simon

For the past three days, I have been unable to upload a new copy of a paper using the "Edit this record" function ("Online copies"). I browse and click on my new file, but the status bar remains grey. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By the way, I appreciate the update to the BibTeX export so that it no longer includes stray commas. (Even if I did have to adjust my post-processing script!)

Recently, I noticed that I'm getting incorrect page numbers in the BibTeX exported for some entries. It doesn't apply to all entries. For example, I exported data from a number of articles from Mind and Language 2000 vol. 15 no. 1 today. Some of these had correct page numbers but others were erroneous. The start page always seems to be correct but the last page is sometimes messed up. When this happens, the erroneous number is usually the same for all entries which include the error. In this case, three or four articles had completely correct numbering while three or four had a last page of 8211. This included, if I remember correctly, the introduction which should end on page 46.

Any idea why this is happening?

PhilPapers sometimes automatically quotes the start of the first paragraph of a paper posted in my account, which can get annoying, particularly when the quoted snippet doesn't adequately summarize the paper. I have repeatedly edited entries to delete quoted summaries, only to find that PhilPapers has been overriding my edits. How do I stop these persistent unwanted automatic corrections to entries under my name? Thanks in advance for the help.

I have Analysis deselected in 'My journals', but I continue to get updates about it in the 'New articles in your journals' e-mails.

I get a notification of messages, but when I go to look they aren't there.  The following links take me to the Demonstrating Equality thread, but e.g. the Tenenbaum 2012-03-16 message is not there, nor "3 more," whatever they may be.  Is this misbehaving software or karmic dysteleology?

Thanks.

• Tamara Yael Tenenbaum, 2012-03-16 : Thanks for your answer, I appre I'll give you your first point, but I'm still unsure about the second. I believe... (read more)
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Hello, Philpapers!
I joined philpapers just today because I wanted to ask this question. The thing is, that I found out about this site about a month ago and I loved the way it is SO much, that I started visiting it every day to see what's new in the articles section. Now I start to wish that the Philosophy was an area of my primary interest, but, unfortunately, it's not primary, and, as I am not a native speaker of English I can't read all of the articles properly. My areas of interest are Literature and Religion (separately), but I couldn't find any sites, constructed in the same way as this. So I wonder if there are such ones, where I can trace the latest articles dedicated to my area of interest?
Thank you very much!

Under my profile there is a blurb under the heading "About Me". I cannot find a place to edit that blurb. Where is it?

Similarly, I cannot find a way to edit my contact info. When I click on what appears to be most relevant "edit" button, I am taken to a place where I may enter, among other things, an email address. But the email address I enter does not show up as contact info under my profile. What am I missing?

I uploaded a discussion under Value Theory but cannot find it.  Does it take time for discussions to show up?  Am I looking in the wrong place for it?  Has it been rejected for some reason?  An inquiring mind wants to know.  Thanks.