If any of you are heading to the Pacific APA this week and are interested in meeting up, feel free to email me at marvan@ut.edu or fb message me. In fact, if there's any interest, perhaps we can even do a Cocoon meetup of sorts!

In any case, I hope to see some of you there, and hope some of you choose to check out the panel I'm serving on Wednesday (tomorrow) evening at 6:00pm:

The PhilPapers Foundation
Topic: The Future of Publishing and Peer Review in Philosophy
Chair: David Bourget (University of Western Ontario)
Panelists:

Marcus Arvan (University of Tampa)
Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics)
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
David Velleman (New York University)

We'll be discussing a randomized survey on publishing David Bourget recently carried out on PhilPeople, as well as ways that publishing and peer-review might be improved. Hopefully it will be good and interesting discussion!

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3 responses to “The Future of Publishing @ Pacific APA”

  1. trying to deal with it all

    Hey Sketchburger, check out Max Weber:
    “It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving towards bigger ones… This passion for bureaucracy … is enough to drive one to despair. … the great question is, therefore,…. what can we oppose to this machinery in order to keep a portion of mankind free from this parcelling-out of the soul, from this supreme mastery of the bureaucratic way of life.”
    Colleges and universities may be among the worst offenders still today….

  2. another postdoc

    Marcus, this looks like a very interesting panel. Do you know if the survey results are available somewhere for those of us who can’t attend the panel?

  3. Marcus Arvan

    another postdoc: I don’t think the survey results are currently available anyway, but I’m looking into whether it’s possible to share them here!

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