My philosophic life is immeasurably enhanced by the existence of three wonderful philosophical web-resources: Edward N. Zalta's The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, David Chalmer's PhilPapers, and Gary and Anastasia Gutting's The Notre Dame Philosophical Review. All three projects tap the collective genius of philosophy to exhibit a far more comprehensive snap-shot of the state of philosophical research than ever before in the history of philosophy since, say, the time of Plato and Aristotle or, maybe, the library of Alexandria. As a philosophic community we owe a huge debt of gratitude to these wonderful institutions. (I start every work-day by reading the reviews in NDPR.)
But discussion with Dario Perinetti reminded me that there is still room for improvement. In particular NDPR rarely reviews books published in languages other than English (it does review translations regularly). This makes NDPR needlessly more provincial than it could be. No doubt within one's expertise one can keep track (if one is so inclined) with non-English scholarship/philosophy. But the current state of affairs means that our principal source for reflection on the state of philosophy is either a couple of years out of date (i.e., until translations appear--and these are often catered to the demands in Literary Theory) or simply out of touch even with most work in very dynamic philosophic cultures (Germany, France, Italy, South America).
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