popular speculative philosophy?

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

There is more to heaven and earth than was every dreamed of in 
our philosophies... [Shakespeare, I think]

Sandy Thatcher wonders whether there is any hope of advertising 
revenue for an esoteric journal like the Journal of Speculative 
Philosophy.

How will we ever know the appetite of the public for speculative 
philosophy, unless we experiment with open access?

When the NIH made Medline openly accessible in the 90's, thinking 
of expanding access to all the physicians and medical 
researchers, it came as a surprise that usage increased more than 
a hundredfold, and daily usage exceeded the numbers of physicians 
and medical researchers.

If there were no love for philosophy, why would there be an 
entire academic discipline with this name?  I suspect that not 
many sign up for this, as a quick and easy way to land a 
high-paying job after graduation.

For Sandy Thatcher's latest question on this topic, see: 
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0709/msg00089.html

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Heather Morrison, MLIS
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
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