Freelosophy: a centralized forum for commenting on philosophy papers

Two philosophers, Filippo Contesi and  Giulio Pietroiusti (University of Barcelona), have created a new site, Freelosophy, which allows users to search and leave public comments on PhilPapers or PhilArchive. Contesi writes:

In some academic disciplines, publication and discussion of articles
before journal submission is generally much more widespread than in
philosophy. Indeed, most journal publishing houses are publicly
committed to considering pre-archived papers for publication. You can
double-check this for your journal of choice here: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Philosophers already can make their pre-prints publicly available at
any point on at least one pre-print repository: PhilArchive.org.
However, currently existing web platforms for public discussion of
scientific pre-prints (e.g. PubPeer.org) cannot be used to discuss
PhilArchive-d papers.

So, we have created a website that allows anyone to comment freely on
papers present on PhilArchive and/or PhilPapers: https://freelosophy.github.io/
On Freelosophy, scholars can add comments to a paper (and read them)
by using its PhilPapers/Archive ID, an identifier present on the page
of each paper on PhilArchive. Each paper on PhilPapers also has its
own PhilPaper/Archive ID (in the URL).

Everyone interested is most welcome to start using our service, which
is currently in public beta. Please do not hesitate to contact us at
[email protected] for any comments or feedback.

Readers can learn more about how the site works at Daily Nous. I hope the site takes off, as I think it's a great endeavor--and I encourage the Cocoon's readers to try it out!

Comments

[Nick Byrd]

For what it's worth, commenting is already a fully-supported feature of ResearchGate (a free-to-use platform that is already among the most widely used by academics, especially in the sciences and science-adjacent fields—e.g., experimental philosophy, empirically oriented philosophy of mind, etc.). RG also provides most of the metrics that PhilPapers/PhilArchives provides. So philosophers, especially those doing anything related to science, may want to consider claiming their account/papers on RG to join in open commentary of their own and colleagues' work.

I've shared slides from a presentation comparing (among other things) the various online platforms for distributing and commenting on research at the hyperlink embedded into my name for this comment.

[F. Contesi]

FWIW, ResearchGate seems to be a commercial enterprise, like Academia.edu, Google Scholar etc., and requires a log-in to comment. Freelosophy (like PubPeer before us) is not commercial and does not require log-in to comment. Moreover, if I may say so myself, it is also easier to navigate and less cluttered than RG :)