March 23, 2026
- Added 3 new journals: New Blackfriars (~2,300 reviews), Phenomenological Reviews (~400), and Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion (~25)
- Improved review detection for Kantian Review, Hegel Bulletin, and Kant-Studien — backfilled ~275 previously missed reviews
- Data quality sweep: cleaned ~820 garbled titles across multiple journals (HTML tags, publisher info, swapped fields)
- Fixed weekly update crash caused by conflicting LaunchAgent configuration
- Added 301 redirects for old GitHub Pages URLs flagged by Google Search Console
March 21, 2026
- New browsable pages for each of 1,200+ journals and 15 subfields — browse all journals or browse by subfield
- Added XML sitemap and Google Search Console integration for better discoverability
- Clicking an author or reviewer name now filters by that name without clearing other active filters
- New “Share” button copies a link to your current search
- Improved search: possessive terms (Kant’s, Hume’s) now match correctly
- Added /health endpoint and HTTP health checks on Fly.io
- Infrastructure: consolidated deployment code, added automated weekly backups, standardized logging across all scrapers
March 16, 2026
- New navigation: book titles now link directly to the review; new “Info” button expands detail panel with subfield, access badges, and related reviews
- “Other reviews of this book” link in the detail panel lets you quickly find all reviews of the same book
- New source: The Unpopulist book reviews, integrated into weekly update pipeline
- Performance fix: symposia queries reduced from 19s to under 200ms
March 8, 2026
- Added 2,676 reviews from mainstream outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, New Yorker, Atlantic, and 100+ other publications
- History of Political Economy gap fill: added 861 reviews that were missing due to inconsistent Crossref metadata formatting
- Database now at 212,600+ reviews
March 5, 2026
- Migrated from GitHub Pages to a dynamic Flask app on Fly.io — page load dropped from 81 MB to ~15 KB, with server-side full-text search via SQLite FTS5
- All filtering, sorting, and pagination now handled server-side; search results returned in milliseconds
- Weekly automated updates resumed (had been blocked by GitHub Pages build size limits)
March 2, 2026
- Major data expansion: 36,000+ new reviews, bringing the database to 208,700+ reviews across 1,320+ journals
- Subfield classification expanded to 99.1% coverage via Haiku batch API
- Massive NYRB expansion: 3,900+ book reviews from The New York Review of Books (1963–2026), filtered for philosophical relevance
- Added 9 journals to weekly Crossref scan: Teaching Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Journal of Philosophy, HOPOS, Kantian Review, Research in Phenomenology, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Argumentation, Philosophy & Rhetoric
- Added 17 Jacobin book reviews on political philosophy
- Name normalization: consolidated variant author/reviewer name forms
- Journal display: dropped leading “The” from journal names for cleaner alphabetical sorting
March 1, 2026
- Major data expansion: 77,000+ new entries from 834 newly indexed journals, bringing coverage to 168,000+ reviews across 1,178 journals
- Significant new international coverage including French, Dutch, German, Spanish, and Italian philosophy journals
- Book symposia coverage expanded from 270 to 432 symposia (1,840 entries) across 60+ journals, including Philosophical Studies, Jurisprudence, Metascience, History of European Ideas, and more
- Added 12 reviews from non-academic sources (3:AM Magazine, Reason Magazine)
February 28, 2026
- New subfield filter: browse reviews by philosophical subfield (ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, etc.) — 15 subfields, 99.6% of entries classified via journal mapping and LLM
- Subfield badges now shown in expanded review details
- Added 6 new journals: Political Studies Review (2,980), The Thomist (2,037), The Journal of Symbolic Logic (1,810), Metascience (1,542), History of European Ideas (261), Contemporary Political Theory (189)
- Data cleanup: fixed 180 ALL CAPS titles, 36 leading punctuation artifacts, 27 HTML entities, 25 HTML tags, 10 editor annotations in author fields, 41 swapped first/last names; deleted 26 empty “Book review” entries
- Backfilled 601 missing reviewer names: 576 for Journal of Markets & Morality via API, 25 for mainstream outlets (TLS, The Guardian, The Nation, and others) via page scraping
February 27, 2026
- Added 16 new journals including The Heythrop Journal (3,358), Topoi (348), Noûs (231), Ratio Juris (210), Husserl Studies (183), and 11 others; fixed detection for 3 undercounted journals: Kant-Studien (2 → 788), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (6 → 763), Theoria (42 → 309)
- Extensive data cleanup: removed ~2,600 false positives, recovered 795 missing book authors, normalized 12,500+ whitespace fields, fixed ~5,300 ALL CAPS titles/names, cleaned 1,380+ editor markers and trailing commas, decoded HTML entities, corrected 250 name suffixes
February 26, 2026
- New data source: Brave Search API scan of 16 mainstream outlets — added 468 verified reviews from TLS, LARB, NYT, NYRB, LRB, The Guardian, Kirkus, Boston Review, WSJ, and others
- Extensive false-positive cleanup: removed ~155 non-reviews (obituaries, profiles, interviews, opinion pieces, wrong-book matches) and corrected ~20 entries matched to the wrong book
- Journal sort order now ignores leading “The”
February 25, 2026
- New data source: Daily Nous “Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update” — 737 new reviews from 50+ non-academic media outlets (TLS, LARB, WSJ, The Guardian, NYRB, LRB, Kirkus, and others)
- Author, reviewer, and journal names in the review table are now clickable — clicking filters to show all related reviews
- Data cleanup: removed ~2,750 false positive entries (regular articles and precis/replies misidentified as reviews) across 70+ journals via Crossref type verification, fixed ~210 garbled titles and bogus author fields, cleaned HTML entities
February 23, 2026
- Added site logo, favicon, and Open Graph / Twitter Card meta tags for social sharing previews
- Massive JSTOR metadata import: 31,038 new reviews from JSTOR’s complete metadata archive, expanding the database from 46,313 to 77,351 reviews across 158 journals
- Added 41 new journals from JSTOR, including History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (1,928 reviews), Utopian Studies (1,457), Iyyun (1,098), The Journal of Philosophy (774), and 37 others
- Enriched 18,405 existing entries with JSTOR metadata across 25+ journals
- Expanded non-western philosophy coverage: Dao expanded from 16 to 436 reviews, plus 6 new journals (Comparative Philosophy, Filosofia Theoretica, South African Journal of Philosophy, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of Indian Philosophy)
- Added Africana philosophy journals: The Black Scholar (157 reviews) and The CLR James Journal (22 reviews)
- Expanded applied ethics coverage with 9 new journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and Journal of Applied Philosophy
- Added 123 symposium contributions across new symposia in Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and Sophia
- Added automation: weekly Crossref content check and daily Springer Nature API scan with automatic site rebuild
- Major data cleanup: fixed ~14,500 entries with garbled author names, title metadata, and HTML entities from JSTOR imports
- Enriched 778 missing book authors via Crossref DOI parsing and internal cross-referencing
February 22, 2026
- Added book symposia support: 1,272 symposium contributions across 237 symposia from 30+ journals, each with a “Symposium” badge and links to other contributions in the same symposium
- Added two new journals via direct website scraping: Cosmos + Taxis (73 reviews + 141 symposium contributions) and Constitutional Political Economy (16 reviews)
- Removed ~1,500 false positive entries (research articles, editorials) across 20+ journals
- Data quality cleanup: fixed ~1,400 garbled author entries and 900+ book titles with HTML entities or embedded bibliographic metadata
- Made the Sources section collapsible to reduce page clutter
February 21, 2026
- Added 37 new journals including Journal of the History of Philosophy (3,100 reviews), Dialectica (199), The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (149), Philosophia Mathematica (128), and 33 others
- Added Open Library as a new data source for book author lookup, fixing 1,800+ missing authors
- Fixed 450+ additional missing book authors via OpenAlex and Crossref
- Data integrity cleanup: removed 64 false positive entries, fixed hundreds of garbled author names
February 20, 2026
- Added 9 new journals including Philosophy of the Social Sciences (641 reviews), The Review of Politics (220), and Philosophical Psychology (65)
- Removed ~2,900 misidentified research articles across all journals
- Fixed 575+ missing book authors via Crossref and OpenAlex
- Added multi-review detection for journals with dual-review formats
February 19, 2026
- Added 16 new journals including Philosophy in Review (6,682 reviews), The Independent Review (1,030), Hypatia (1,050), Political Theory (773), History of Political Economy (572), and Business Ethics Quarterly (538)
- New UI features: always-visible filter bar, multi-select journal dropdown, URL persistence for sharing filtered views
- Fixed 1,187 missing book authors and cleaned 222 book titles with embedded bibliographic metadata
- Added footer links, GoatCounter analytics, and this update log page
February 18, 2026
- Initial journal coverage and static site build
