JESP is now on hiatus from considering new submissions. This hiatus will extend until May 1, 2023 or we successfully overcome the copyediting and production backlog, whichever comes first. JESP continues to process and evaluate all current submissions under consideration, and if you have received a past invitation to revise and resubmit, you can resubmit at any time - if you have any technical troubles doing so through our website, please just e-mail us.

Unfortunately, this moratorium on new submissions has become necessary in order to overcome a backog for copyediting and publication that we have accumulated during the pandemic and as our publication volume has grown. Taking this brief break will allow us to use our limited resources in order to get into a position in which we can better serve our authors as they deserve. Thanks so much for your interest in and support for JESP and its completely open-access, university-funded mission, and we hope that you will consider submitting your work again once we reopen.

JESP is going to temporarily close to new submissions for up to six months beginning on November 1st, 2022. We don't take this move lightly, as we are well aware of the shortage of good venues to publish all of the great new work in moral, social, legal, and political philosophy, and the lengths to which many younger scholars entering the field must go to publish their work. But at this time we believe that taking this brief hiatus from new submissions is the best way to protect the future of the journal and ensure that JESP can continue to provide a model for completely open-access, university-funded publication far into the future.

Welcome on board to Saba Bazargan-Forward, Hallie Liberto, and David Plunkett, who have all joined our team of associate editors in November 2021.  Carrying out the work of the journal is a service and intensive labor even in good times, and the last two years it has been especially difficult for all of us.  We are proud and delighted to have new help on board.

JESP is always grateful to the incredible amount of volunteer work contributed by our vast network of referees from across philosophy and a range of cognate fields, who put in an incredible amount of uncompensated work for no other reason than that we e-mail them out of the blue to ask them to do it, and they believe in professional service and in the possibilities of fully open-access journal publication. 

This year, we have chosen a small group of our referees from 2019 and 2020 to designate as belonging on our JESP Referee Honor Roll for contributing in ways that are some combination of especially timely, reliable, and courteously instructive.  The construction of this list is in many ways arbitrary and many other names could easily have gone onto it.  But these are people who have been singled out by our associate editors as particularly worthy of thanks over the last year or more.

We have begun to delete submissions to JESP that are opened but not completed and submitted after one year.  If you began the process of submitting an article to JESP over one year ago and would like to complete it, please just begin with a new submission.  Thanks for understanding!

The Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences of the University of Southern California has renewed its commitment to JESP's fully university-funded, fully open-access publication mission, guaranteeing the full support of JESP through the end of the decade.  Commitments like this one make good on the core value of the research university to participate in the dissemination of knowledge, rather than locking behind paywalls.

Congratulations to JESP author Kenneth Walden, whose 'Practical Reason, Not As Such' has been selected by the Philosophers' Annual as one of the ten best papers published in philosophy in 2018!

https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v13i2.257

Over the last year, JESP has moved to an increasingly distributed editorial process, with a larger number of associate editors making more independent decisions about the refereeing process.  Our goal is to improve the speed of submissions through our system and keep a manageable workload for each of our valuable editors, each of whom are volunteering their time to support JESP's open access mission!