Plagiarized Content at the Online Encylopedia of Philosophy? (up-to-date)
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Mark Thakkar (St. Andrews) states he has identified plagiarism in all over 40 content articles in the Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
In a thread posted on Twitter very last night, Dr. Thakkar wrote:
There are ≥40 plagiarized articles in the Web Encylopedia of Philosophy (@iephilosophy). I know this many thanks to a likelihood discovery by @InnocentOP, who spotted that the Augustine entry was lifted from the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1908–12).
Ditto English Deism, French Deism, Denis Diderot, Emanation, Encyclopedists, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, William Hamilton, Karl Robert Eduard Von Hartmann, Claude Adrien Helvetius, Renaissance Humanism, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Peter Lombard, William Paley, William Warburton.
A 16th entry lifted from the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Spiritual Understanding (1908–12) was replaced by a truly original report in 2017, but the plagiarized model is even now readily available on the IEP site: iep.utm.edu/aquinas-iep/.
10 entries can be traced to Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1896), sometimes with supplementary materials from one more supply: Damon, Democritus, Demonax, Diogenes Laertius, Hippias, Menippus, Roman Philosophy, Symposium, Theophrastus, Timon.
4 entries are plagiarized from Sorley’s A Heritage of British Philosophy to 1900 (1920): Edward Herbert of Cherbury, Thomas Henry Huxley, Shadworth Hodgson, Leslie Stephen. The final of these also can take material from the Dictionary of Nationwide Biography (1912).
The other 10 are from resources which include Baldwin’s Dictionary of Philosophy & Psychology (1902) and Burnet’s Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato (1914): Euclides, Leucippus, Peripatetics, Prodicus, Pyrrho, Pythagoras, Stilpo, James Hutchison Stirling, Synderesis, Voluntarism.
The Net Encyclopedia of Philosophy statements to be peer-reviewed, but some of its articles or blog posts have experienced only beauty adjustments given that the 18th century (a single repeat source currently being William Enfield’s Historical past of Philosophy, a 1791 translation of Brucker’s 1767 Historia Critica).
I was in a position to discover these plagiarized entries mainly because they had been all labelled with “The writer of this posting is nameless. The IEP is actively searching for an writer who will publish a substitute report.” I very a great deal hope this implies the earlier mentioned listing is exhaustive.
No question Prof. James Fieser, the founder of the IEP (@iephilosophy), will be ready to determine the plagiarist(s) dependable. I’m also tagging Michael Dougherty (@MVDougherty123), who warrants to be superior recognized as a tireless opponent of plagiarism in academic philosophy.
I have an inquiry out to the editors of the IEP asking about this, and I’ll update this submit when they reply. In the meanwhile, have you appear throughout other articles in the IEP that surface to be plagiarized? Permit us know.
(by way of Catarina Dutilh Novaes)
UPDATE (2/10/22): James Fieser (College of Tennessee at Martin), founder and editor of the World wide web Encyclopedia of Philosophy, despatched the subsequent response:
I welcome this chance to respond to issues about the IEP’s “proto articles”. Our useful resource came online in 1995, and, for considerably of that time, the IEP “About” site contained the subsequent assertion:
“Most of the content articles in The IEP are primary contributions by specialized philosophers these are identifiable by the author’s name at the foot of the post. Many others are non permanent, or “proto content articles,” and have mainly been adapted from older sources. They are identifiable by the inclusion of the initials “IEP” at the shut and will in time be replaced by first articles or blog posts.” (web.archive.org/net/
All these older resources were printed reference is effective in the community domain. In 2012, through the standard class of updating our internet site, this statement was removed. Nevertheless, the latest IEP “Submissions” web site nevertheless involves the next reference to the proto posts:
“Authors might also offer to exchange any IEP proto-content, which are identifiable by the inclusion of the initials “IEP” somewhat than a person’s identify at the foot of the report.” (iep.utm.edu/post)
While these proto articles or blog posts have ably served the philosophical local community over the yrs, we are utilizing this occasion to bid farewell to the remaining kinds.
