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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@ludens.elte.hu. Those wishing
to volunteer to serve as moderators should contact Nyiri as soon as possible.

