Thanks and a Call for Contributions

Salutations, dear readers!

I know you’re out there somewhere, I can hear you breathing.

Your indulgence I crave for the briefest of spells. Two things I have, two things for a bright Wednesday afternoon.

Thing 1 is a simple thank you. On behalf of our authors: to those kind-hearted readers who have lately taken the trouble to comment on our efforts, you’re too kind. Well, perhaps not too kind; too kind might be something more like sending piles of cash or buying us speedboats and champagne and the like. Nevertheless, your comments are, believe it or not, very much appreciated.

It is always very nice to know that someone, somewhere, sometime, has taken the trouble to cast their baby blues – or browns or greens or what have you – over our writings, be they never so rambling and windy. It is nicer still when the occasional someone goes to the effort of posting a comment, even if all they have to say is that they enjoyed what they read.

Who am I kidding? Those are always the best comments. They warm the very cockles of our hearts; nay, not just the cockles but the entire sub- and supra- cockle area is kept toasty and snug by your thoughtfulness. 

Of course, those who spare a moment to respond at greater length kind, with a thought or two of their own, are also very dear to our shrivelled up literary hearts. Nice, it is, to feel that, once in a while, we are engaged in some kind of conversation; especially of the style where no one gets called a ‘Nazi’.

Thing 2 is more by way of an invitation. It occurs to me that the time may have come to open our doors and, indeed, our arms – metaphorically speaking – to contributions.

Short pieces of up to about 1000 words would be exceeding welcome, short pieces that are, for preference, in some way connected with or at least in orbit around concepts of persons or personhood (whatever that means). Writings philosophical, theological, psychological, sociological, historical, hysterical, creative, constructive, political, perspicacious, perspirational and, of course, literary, we should be most glad to see.

Writers and researchers keen to discuss or even – dare I use such filthy language? I dare, I dare! – promote their work should feel very free to get in touch. We’d like to know what you’re up to, as I’m certain, would our readers. The doings of others are always of considerable interest. Likewise, conference or workshop reports, reviews of (almost) any kind; or merely, as so often seems the case, reflections inspired by new reading and old conversations.

Should any of you be tempted, send your submissions to BPFblogsubs@gmail.com.

A word about writing style. As you may have noticed, we do not have a ‘house style’ as such. All we ask is that submissions be as clear as possible with as little jargon/technical terminology. This, like change, appears to be an anathema to many philosophers. However, please keep in mind that not all of our readers are familiar with the nonsense-words we pepper our official publications with.

Submissions as editable documents please: .doc, .docx, .rtf or what have you; just not pdfs. And if you could put your name and affiliation (if you have one) at the top of the first page, that would be grand.

One last request: keep it clean. We’re delicate souls here at the BPF blog, untouched and innocent when it comes to all that mucky business you find on the internet – pictures of ladies sans vests and such like.

And if it’s not clean, it had better be good.