Here is a tale of journal woe with a happy ending.

Now I’m going to reveal the ending. After fifteen years with no luck they sent their paper on the Two-Envelope Problem to an open-access online journal SORITES, and it got published.

Don’t be fooled by the eye-irritating 1995 HTML version of the website. SORITES’ has clean PDF versions of their issues. Here’s the PDF version of the issues that Schwitzgebel and Dever’s article appeared in.

Let me wrap this post up with a little list of things that need to be appreciated:

1. Schwitzgebel and Dever Went Open-Access

Schwitzgebel and Dever are both Associate Professors of Philosophy at very prestigious graduate programs. They both have very impressive publication records, and are clearly capable of publishing in the top print journals.

2. SORITES’ mission statement is awesome.

...dedicated to the promotion of analytical standards of rigour and clarity, favours no particular school or tendency within analytical philosophy. Its only allegiance is to a [fuzzy] set of methodological standards of rigour, clarity and careful argumentation, which characterize any rational way of doing philosophy. Submission of manuscripts written in accordance with such guidelines is welcome, in all fields of pure and applied philosophy.

3. SORITES’ Roll of Referees boasts some incredible philosophers.

Here are just a few…Ernest Sosa, Terrence Horgan, Mark Sainsbury, Phillip Pettit, Peter Simons, and Graham Priest.
(to see the full list open the PDF version of the March 2008 issue)

4. I’m probably going to have to submit my next paper to SORITES.

P.S. If the editor’s of SORITES ever read this post, I humbly suggest changing the HTML version of the site – with black text on white background. It’s a little jarring on the eyes, and it’s reminiscent of the internet circa 1995)