Abbas Raza, founding editor of Three Quarks Daily, has asked me to announce that it is time again for the Annual 3Quarks Philosophy Competition. Patricia Churchland will be judging this year!
As I wrote on the occasion of the first competition:
"I think competitions like this are going to become increasingly important in future years. After all, the only known defense for the absurd anachronism of hard copy academic journals is that the competition for space on their expensive printed pages is essential to maintaining academic standards. Maybe so, but hardcopy journals are soon going to disappear and, if standards are not to disappear with them, academics had better quickly figure out other ways to sort out what is worth reading. Congratulations to 3Quarks for conducting an interesting experiment. "
The experiment, I am happy to observe, has become an institution.
And Three Quarks Daily is indeed worth visiting every day for its original and linked content. Thanks to Abbas's unerring eye for what is worth reading it seems to me to have become The Paris Review of the internet age.
