MONIST interactive issue; call for papers

--- Forwarded message follows --- From: rapaport(a)cs.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Subject: MONIST interactive issue; call for papers Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:54:44 GMT CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS MONIST INTERACTIVE ISSUE The Monist. Volume 80, Number 3, July 1997. Advisory Editors: Steven Harnad (Southampton) and J. C. Nyiri (Budapest) Philosophy, like other intellectual disciplines, has been both constituted and constrained by the media available for the production and exchange of ideas. It is the inventions of writing and print which have made scholarly inquiry possible. And as for philosophy, some of its seemingly perennial problems in fact arose as a consequence of the fact that living (spoken) language had to be transformed into language fixed on paper. Writing created the isolated thinker, while also allowing the time to think and to organize thoughts into lapidary form; but it could not be interactive in the way that real-time conversation was, and certainly not among multiple interlocutors. Electronic networks now offer new conceptual challenges and a new framework for philosophizing. This issue of The Monist will itself serve as an experiment in new interactive methods of philosophical composition. HOW THE DISCUSSION/PUBLICATION PROCESS WILL RUN ITS COURSE: The issue will be made up of 8 "papers", each destined to be about 7500 words long. Each paper will consist of interactive commentary (launched by a suitable target or series of targets). The "raw" discussion will be electronic, moderated (i.e., filtered through one moderator, but not edited by him) and archived. When the interaction has run its course, it will be edited down, revised as necessary, to form a coherent chunk of about 7500 words which would appear in the usual (paper) format, with a reference to the archive of the original "raw" discussion. POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION might include: "The Concept of Knowledge in the Context of Electronic Networking" "Originality, Plagiarism and Interactivity" "What Is Computation?" A SITE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED, where the records of the exchange will be archived. This is the MONist nETwork site. The URL for MONET is as follows: gopher://wings.buffalo.edu.:70/11/academic/department/philosophy/ For the time being, you may simply send copies of your messages/suggestions/submissions to nyiri(a)ludens.elte.hu. Those wishing to volunteer to serve as moderators should contact Nyiri as soon as possible.