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Philosophers' Imprint
is a refereed series of original papers in philosophy, edited by
philosophy faculty at the University of Michigan, with the advice of an
international Board of Editors, and published on the World Wide Web by
the University of Michigan Digital Library. The mission of the
Imprint is to promote a future in which funds currently spent on
journal subscriptions are redirected to the dissemination of scholarship
for free, via the Internet.
Although the Imprint is
edited by analytically trained philosophers, it is not restricted to any
particular field or school of philosophy. Its target audience consists
primarily of academic philosophers and philosophy students, but it also
aims to attract non-academic readers to philosophy by making excellent
philosophical scholarship available without license or subscription.
The Imprint
issues papers at irregular intervals; readers can receive periodic notices
of recent publications by subscribing to an electronic mailing list.
Papers are published in an attractive, typeset format that can be read
on-screen or printed by the reader. Their physical appearance and
Universal Resource Locators (URLs) are permanently fixed, to allow for
reliable citations. The Imprint provides its own indexes and
full-text search engine, in addition to being indexed by Philosophers'
Index and public search engines.
Submissions to the
Imprint are refereed anonymously and selected for publication on the
basis of their estimated long-term significance. The Imprint does
not publish regular book reviews or discussion notes, though papers
responsive to the current literature may of course meet the Editors'
criteria. Submissions must be sent electronically; submissions in hard
copy will not be considered, acknowledged, or returned. Although there is
no page limit on submissions, the Editors value economy of expression and
do not currently plan to publish book-length works.
