blog writing #criticisms of michael parker’s arguments on the openness of open access publishing

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that Michael Parker's argument regarding open access publishing which claims that applied ethics scholars ought to prefer open access publications is flawed. The argument of Parker (2013) is that ethicists and those engaged in public ethics ought to be firm advocates of making empirical and normative literature available. According to him, open access publication will enable a critical evaluation of all normative arguments regarding morality. He adds that public reason is impoverished when access to essential ideas is limited. Therefore, open access to publications enables applied ethics scholars to relay public reason richly, according to Parker.