Our History
Frustrated by the antagonistic, discouraging, and private nature of academic publishing—especially in philosophy—in 2013 a group of scholars came together to imagine a more open, encouraging, and transformative peer review process that would involve not just academics, but also the broader public. Through the tremendous collaboration among scholars, community leaders, grant funders, and partner organizations, this vision has become the Public Philosophy Journal .
Below, Christopher P. Long and Mark Fischer narrate their early vision:
Land Acknowledgement
We, the Public Philosophy Journal, collectively acknowledge that Michigan State University (our main sponsor and institutional home) occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg-Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. In particular, the university resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. We recognize, support, and advocate for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Michigan State University more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.
