Anyone still here? My question has gone unanswered.
@dmgile Hi Douglas, apologies for the delayed response. I believe George ( @geoslack ) is currently revisiting his part outline and will prepare a final list of chapter authors shortly. For now, you can view the chapter assignments and current authors. Kathryn MacKay ( @kathrynlmackay ) is writing chapter 7, so you can coordinate with each other as needed. Iām roping @clhendricksbc to see if she has any thoughts about connections and possible overlap in the two chapters as well.
@dmgile Sorry but Iām no help hereāI was waiting for @geoslack to reply because he is the one in the know about the current state of the chapters! Thanks for pointing out your question is still unanswered; hopefully not for long.
@dmgile
Hi Douglas,
Sorry about the lack of response, somehow I do not get always get updates from this discussion board.
Touching on feminist virtue ethics would be a great addition to your chapter. I am happy to leave it up to authors to come up with their preferred list of things to cover in each chapter and then we can take it from there.
We do not yet have a final list of authors. Here is what we have so far:
Chapter 1 on Relativism: Paul Rezkalla ā draft submitted
Chapter 2 on Ethics and Religion (Divine Command Theory and Natural Law Theory) STILL OPEN
Chapter 3 your chapter on Virtue Ethics ā in progress
Chapter 4 Egoism and Social Contract Theory STILL OPEN
Chapter 5 Utilitarianism: Frank Aragbonfoh, draft submitted
Chapter 6 Kantian Deontology: Joseph Kranak, draft submitted
Chapter 7 Feminist Ethics: Kathryn MacKay
(Chapter 8: Contemporary Approaches? It seems like maybe it is best to have a standalone chapter on feminist ethics, and spin this off as a separate chapter assuming that there is interest out there in someone writing it)
@clhendricksbc
I am reading and commenting to authors on their drafts (and/or will be soon). I think we decided among the editors to make that process somewhat open to contributors as well, but I am honestly not sure how to set that up. Do I just add the drafts to the shared Google Drive folder and then go from there? I am a little leery with doing that since major revisions might get done without much discussion and that seems like a potential headache for keeping track of edits. Any thoughts on this?
@geoslack About doing revisions, Google Docs does have a track changes system. Itās called Suggesting mode. You can change the modes on the upper-right side. The document will show what changes are being proposed, and people can also add comments.
You can also create separate documents for each round of revisions. So, after a document gets a bunch of suggestions for revision and comments, then you duplicate that document and do all the changes to the new document.
@jakranak Thanks for the tip, I will do that!
@geoslack I think that if you set up the documents to let only comments in from those with the link then they can use āsuggestingā mode stillā¦Iām not certain about that but I think so. Then you can give a few people permission to edit directly while giving permission only to comment to those with the link. Perhaps thatās what youāve done, though; I havenāt looked carefully yet!
@geoslack Oh, one more thing: have you clicked āwatchingā on this thread to make sure you get the notifications? That should send notifications to your email if someone mentions your name. Actually, I think it sends you an email for all replies to the thread, which is not a bad thing either! 
Iāve just submitted the Feminist Ethics chapter by uploading it to Google Drive and inviting @geoslack to view/edit it.
Only 19 days late! :raised_hands_tone2:
I looked around on the authorās guide, but didnāt find any other instructions, so I hope this is the right thing to have done. If not, please let me know and Iāll resubmit it properly ASAP.
@kathrynlmackay Wooo! Thatās fantastic Kathryn, thank you! And yes, thatās the right process to submit. Weāll add it to the author guide for others in future, thanks for flagging the oversight
@zoe @kathrynlmackay
Yes, thanks for the chapter I will look it over and comment on it as soon as I can!
Zoe, should it be in the āsubmitted chaptersā folder along with the others? If so would you mind putting it there ā I am afraid of breaking things again if I do that.
Are the currently drafted chapters open to suggestion at this point? I was just reading over the deontology chapter and realized that it would be good to be able to compare it to other chapters for the sake of unity (though we neednāt require uniformity).
If so, could I get the links to those chapters? Thanks!
@kmf.aho Hi, Iāll refer this to @zoe and @clhendricksbc ā are the chapters open to general comments now?
I have uploaded Chapter 3 to the Google Drive. Sorry for the delay. Life has been complicated the past three weeks.
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@dmgile Wonderful! No worries about the delay ā things are moving along!
@geoslack I can take care of the folder organising, no trouble there ā @kathrynlmackay, would you mind also sharing the doc with zoe@rebus.community? Iāll make sure it ends up in the right place!
@kmf-aho thatās an interesting thought. I think weād like to keep the first round of editing & suggestions within the editing team (just to avoid a ātoo many cooksā situation), and thereās a balance to maintain between connecting chapters and making them modular & useful separately, but you make a very valid point. There are a few ways we could manage it, weāll discuss with @clhendricksbc and the other editors and keep you in the loop.
@geoslack @kmf-aho We are actually right now in the process of deciding on a workflow once chapters have been drafted. Iām sending an email to Part editors right now asking about when we might open chapters out to other authors to comment. So weāll get back to you soon on this!
@clhendricksbc Sounds good. There was a link to the Kant chapter and an invitation to comment earlier, so I thought we were supposed to be doing the same thing for the other chapters. But if the book/section editors are supposed to get to them first before other folks take a look, thatās fine too. Thanks!
Hi everyone, is the chapter assignment for chapter 7 - on naturalistic approaches in ethics still open? I saw that @kathrynlmackay submitted the draft on feminist ethics, but the chapter assignment spreadsheet still says a second author for naturalistic approaches is needed. Iād be happy to contribute, if that is still possible. My name is Michael Klenk, I am a PhD in my final year at Utrecht University and currently a visiting fellow at Harvard. I specialise in evolutionary approaches to (meta-)ethics and have relevant teaching experience and I think it would be good fun to contribute to the textbook. @geoslack would that still be a possibility and, if so, how long should the text be given that it is only a part of chapter 7? What would the deadline be? I am looking forward to hearing from you!
Regards,
Michael
@mklenk Hi Michael! Glad to see that you are interested in participating! At this point maybe it would be best to spin off your topic into its own chapter. If you could suggest here more or less what you would cover in a chapter of your own, I will revise the table of contents accordingly.
You can have look at the Author Guidelines for some more detailed information in response to your other questions. And the deadlines are, so to speak, evolving at the moment so Iād say fit it in to your schedule and if you could get a draft to me within the next few weeks to a month that would be wonderful!
Welcome aboard!
-George
