''Philosophers' Imprint'' is a refereed

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journal. The journal was launched by

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Philosophy professors Stephen Darwall (now at

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) and

J. David Velleman J. David Velleman (born 1952) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at New York University and Miller Research Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He primarily works in the areas of ethics, moral psychology, and rel ...

(now at

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and

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). In 2000, a year before the

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conference promoted open-access more widely, Darwall and Velleman approached Michigan's librarians with the goal of starting a small revolution in academic philosophy publishing. They hoped that publishing philosophical research online could significantly reduce the amount of time between submission and publication from what was then typical in professional journals. The university's librarians, incentivized by the rising costs of subscribing to academic journals, in turn drew on their expertise in managing digital content to collaborate with the editors to produce a journal from within the library, calling the resulting operation The Scholarly Publishing Office. The editors of ''Philosophers' Imprint'' recognized that by publishing an academic journal online, they could also make research available to everyone with internet access, “including students and teachers in developing countries, as well as members of the general public.” Originally edited by Darwall and Velleman, ''Philosophers' Imprint'' is now edited by

Brian Weatherson Brian Weatherson is the Marshall Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He specializes in epistemology and philosophy of language.http://brian.weatherson.org/cv.pdf Education and career Born in Australia, Weatherson r ...

leading a team of thirteen philosophers and advised by an international editorial board. The journal consistently ranked in the top ten of all general philosophy journals in an recurrent poll between academic philosophers.

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