the phylosophy project blog

While processing dissertation title pages, I’m finding a number of signatures that don’t belong to any of the faculty members listed for the department. In some cases, these are faculty from other departments (e.g., linguistics, Greek) at the same institution, but in many cases, I suspect these are external reviewers from other programs. Unless these faculty are named in (say) an acknowledgment page, there’s virtually no way to figure out who signed. (I’m wondering, in general, how frequent external readers are for North American institutions.) My guess is that we’ll have to develop some kind of “wish list” for this kind of missing data.