Josh May

Is seems to me that abstracts are much less common in philosophy than in other disciplines. Whenever I look into, say, some psychology literature, nearly every paper on ingenta, etc. has an abstract. It's way helpful when you're sifting through a bunch of literature and trying to figure out whether to read the article or not.

Of course, there are philosophers who house drafts of their own papers with abstracts on their own sites. Take Richard Holton or Stephen Finlay, for example. (Thanks guys!) But I'd really like to see the movement more widespread in the discipline.

Am I way off on my claim about the lack of abstracts in philosophy? If so, I still maintain that abstracts should be more common in any discipline. But if I'm not wrong, then why are there not more abstracts in places where philosophy articles are housed? I know journals very often require an abstract with submission, but then they just dump the abstract and publish the article. Is the abstract the philosopher's kryptonite? Is there something inherently evil about abstracts?