Of course, while these rule changes might help, they're not going to change the fact that, sooner or later, we need to accept that IF the Hugo Awards are a populist choice
among readers in general they'll need to align roughly with the socio - political demographics of the readers.
Philosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but
among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel —
in short, and
in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition,
in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the
reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history of thought).
By Hannah Johnson Over the last few years as self publishing has gained more traction
among readers, booksellers and the publishing industry
in general, self publishing has been seen as competition to traditional publishing.