@geoslack Hi George, sounds great! I am working on it. Regards, Michael
@kmf.aho Hi Karlāfinally getting back to you on this!
Weāve now gotten a clearer sense of an editing workflow, and have decided it would be most efficient for chapters to go to the Part Editors first for a read through and comments, and then come to the rest of the authors of that Part, as well as other Part Editors, for comments.
So weāll open up the chapters for comments by other authors of the Ethics part once @geoslack has gone through them first!
Hi everyone,
Those here in the Ethics thread may want to take a look at the new Part outline for Social and Political, in case you have some expertise there too. Weāre seeking comments on the outline for the chapters!
Social & Political philosophy: outline is here, join the discussion thread here
In case you want to take a look at the other outlines we have ready for comment too, here they are:
Logic: outline is here, join the discussion thread here
Philosophy of Mind: outline is here, join the discussion thread here
Philosophy of Religion: outline is here, join the discussion thread here
Note that for any discussion threads you want to follow, itās good to click āwatchingā at the bottom to make sure you get email notifications when there are new posts. I think that if you post to the thread youāre automatically watching but Iām not 100% positive of that.
Finally, there are still some chapters remaining on Ethics and Aesthetics, in case anyone wanted to sign-up for them! Look at the gaps in the Public TOC and indicate your interest in this thread.
Hi @geoslack, Iāve finished the first draft for the chapter on evolutionary ethics. Where can I upload the document or should I send it to you via email? Regards, Michael
@mklenk Hi Michael! Not sure if youāve heard from George elsewhere, so Iāll jump in just in case. If youād like, you can send your draft to me at zoe@rebus.community and Iāll make sure it gets to where it needs to go. Thanks so much for your contribution!
@zoe Hi Zoe, great, Iāve just sent you an email to zoe@rebus.community. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Hello everyone, I am interested in contributing to Chapter 4. Is it still available? My name is Sherry Ya-Yun Kao. I am a PhD candidate in my last year at Rice University. My specialties are normative ethics and value theory. My dissertation project is to propose a new account of well-being. I have also been working on biomedical ethics and environmental philosophy. I have taught Phil 101 contemporary moral issues 3 times and I am currently teaching Phil 100 Problems of Philosophy at Rice. Next semester I will teach a Freshman Writing Intensive Seminar. I am particularly interested in (and have devoted myself to) making philosophy accessible and intriguing to anyone who is interested in and yet has no background in philosophy. I would love to contribute to the open textbook. @geoslack Please let me know if that would still be a possibility. Thank you for your consideration. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
@yk18 Hi Sherry, welcome to the Rebus Community! Chapter 4 is still available. Could you please send us a copy of your CV? You can upload it in the forum here, or can send it to me via email at apurva@rebus.foundation. I will pass this along to @geoslack, who will make the final decision on chapter authors for this part.
Hi @geoslack, @clhendricksbc, and everyone,
Just checking in on the text. I see that the new Ethics section has 7 chapters, and I was working on a part (feminist ethics) that looks like it will go in that chapter. Do you need anything from me? Do you need a revised version, shorter/longer, or otherwise?
Hope all is progressing well!
@kathrynlmackay Thanks for checking back! Iāll let @geoslack reply specifically to your questions. In the meantime, we are trying out a new project management platform that Rebus has created for open textbook projects, and weād love for you to join us there. We are continuing to monitor both places but are trying to eventually move our discussions to that new platform!
Sorry for the confusion about this ā the ethics part of the text should have 8 chapters, not 7 and your chapter on Feminist ethics is one of them. It awaiting the next phase of review, now that your initial edits from the first review have been completed. Currently we are getting a list of peer reviewers together who will look at the chapters that have been submitted so far.
Thanks!
George
@geoslack Thanks for the update, George! Looking forward to reviews!
Just an update because itās been awhile! The chapters in this book have been peer reviewed, and now I (as the series editor) and doing a once-over of them to ensure they fit with the author guide and style sheet in that guide. After final revisions are done we will put this volume into Pressbooks and it will be ready for viewing and distribution!
Another update: the chapters have been revised after peer review and my review, and now we need to move into copyediting and other final publication tasks. We are going to try very hard to have this book published before the beginning of September!
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Iāll share a collection of these updates in the newsletter this Thursday. Itās great to see so much progress! 
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Quick update: @metatechne has agreed to do copy editing for the Ethics book! She has already copy edited the Philosophy of Mind book, and weāre so grateful that she is willing to do so for this one too. Thanks, Colleen!
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Thanks, @christina.hendricks. Happy to help! I think Iāll just need edit access to the folder and Iāll be able to get started Wed. evening.
Hi @metatechneāI realized I should copy the chapters and put them into a new āpublishing copiesā folder, which I am working on doing now (and will send you an invitation to that new folder). Iām re-reading them as I do so, so they will go in there piecemeal. Iām still working on the Philosophy of Mind book, and am also doing a review of newly-written chapters for Philosophy of Religion, so things have suddenly gotten very busy! 
Thatās certainly a lot to be working on! (Funny how thereās a point where all tasks on a project seem to converge all at once.) I got the Ethics folder you just shared so Iāll begin working tonight.
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Iām behind! Iāll put chapters in the folder as soon as I read them. Right now am swamped with the two other books, though.
Oh, and there are a few small front matter/back matter docs for Philosophy of Mind that will be ready within the next few days, if youād be willing to copy edit those before we put them in? Things like licensing info, acknowledgments, and also a series intro as soon as I write it!
