My paper with Emmie Malone, Popular Music and Art-interpretive Injustice, has appeared in a recent issue of Inquiry. Here’s a sentence from the conclusion, which can serve as a pull quote:
We hope the examples we have given make an initial case for adding to the already crowded field of philosophical terms that take the form ‘some adjective injustice.’
The paper has been on-line at the journal, typeset except for the pagination, since 2023. A couple of decades ago, this would have been cited as forthcoming, but recent practice— encouraged by journals— has been to cite the on-line first version by its year. So future scholars will be left with the slight confusion that (Malone and Magnus 2023) and (Malone and Magnus 2026) are indeed the same publications. Annoyingly, some databases will record one as a reprint of the other. And other databases will count them as separate publications.
It’s a mess, and I’m disappointed that we didn’t settle on some better practice for dealing with the gap between on-line publication and appearance in a journal.1
- We has time to come up with a better solution, but we didn’t. I was blogging about the collapse between on-line publication and appearance in the issue of a journal almost twenty years ago.