Following some of our recent discussions on peer-review and feedback, I've had an email exchange with Scott Forschler (Independent Scholar), who asked whether I've ever given any thought to a service matching early-career philosopher to exchange feedback akin to our Job-Market Mentoring Program. In all honesty, no, it never occurred to me–but as someone who works in a tiny department myself and has trouble getting feedback on unpublished material, it strikes me as a great idea!
Would anyone be interested in me putting together such a service–perhaps quite a bit more informally than the Mentoring Program? I could perhaps keep a spreadsheet of people who contact me in need of feedback–arranged, say, by AOS or paper-topic–and then serve as an intermediary matching people working on similar topics. What does everyone think of the idea? Any suggestions? Given time-constraints on my side, it would probably have to be pretty informal so that it would be easy for me to do–but if people think it would be helpful, I'm happy to do it!
Any thoughts?
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