The Editors of Philosophical Psychology Stalled and Rejected Our Commentary to an Unscientific and Racist Publication

By Rasmus R. Larsen (Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto Mississauga), Helen De Cruz, (Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University), Jonathan Kaplan (School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University), Agustín Fuentes (Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame), Jonathan Marks (Department of Anthropology, UNC Charlotte), Massimo Pigliucci (Department of Philosophy, City University of New York), Mark Alfano (Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University), Lauren Schroeder (Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga), and

David Livingstone Smith (Department of Philosophy, University of New England)

An unscientific and racist article was recently published in Philosophical Psychology. We submitted a commentary to the journal, but our efforts were first stalled by the editors, and later rejected on arbitrary grounds. Here we share our experience.

On December 23, 2019, the journal, Philosophical Psychology, published a polemical article by Nathan Cofnas, entitled “Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry” (2020). The journal editors — Cees van Leeuwen and Mitchell Herschbach — also released an editors’…