In our September "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks:

Some good and respectable journals that I can think of that publish reply papers are Analysis, Thought, and Philosophia. What other journals might be interested in publishing short reply papers to recent publications, especially in the areas of epistemology? Episteme?

Good questions! The best resource I know of here for most things journal-related is this crowdsourced spreadsheet. As you can see, it lists all kinds of details for different journals, including word counts for full-length articles as well as for those journals that accept discussion notes/replies. In terms of epistemology, a few journals seem like plausible candidates, including Logos & Episteme and Erkenntnis. However, if you visit the 'epistemology' page via the tab at the bottom, you'll see that no journals are listed there. I'd encourage this blog's readers to add and update the spreadsheet to help it become an even better resource! 

Anyway, in addition to updating it, please do feel free to note in the comments section below which journals accept replies, including but not limited to epistemology.

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9 responses to “Journals that publish replies?”

  1. person

    Philosophical Quarterly has a notable discussions section.

  2. Grad student

    PQ’s website says: “We rarely accept purely exegetical articles, or discussions of articles originally published in other journals”. I seem to recall reading a few reply papers there, though.

  3. Metaphysics Grad

    Acta Analytica

  4. JB

    Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective may be worth looking into (although the collective has a heavy STS slant, so perhaps it won’t be of much use to many analytic epistemologists). From their website:
    1) We solicit replies, and promote dialogues, on articles published in the journal Social Epistemology;
    2) We solicit reviews, and promote dialogues, on books and articles that address issues related to knowledge, society, science, and technology;
    3) We solicit contributions to projects either developed by the community affiliated with the SERRC or by interested colleagues.

  5. Phil Sci Grad

    The journal Philosophy of Science publishes discussions somewhat regularly.

  6. Current PhD student

    Seconding for the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective–I think they are actively trying to branch out of STS over there.

  7. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy has a great Discussion Notes section that publishes replies and commentaries under 3000 words.

  8. Nicolas Delon

    THOUGHT will consider replies to papers published elsewhere, although they apply a higher standard.

  9. Tom2

    INQUIRY publishes replies, regardless of where the target of the reply was published.

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