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How can we help you? (April 2025)

Now that it's been several months since our last "how can we help you?" thread, it's time for a new one.

For those of you unfamiliar with this series, this is a chance for you to post openly or anonymously in the comments section below on anything you could use help with related to the profession. After you post your query in the comments section, I will then post new threads for readers to discuss your query. 

As usual, feel free to ask questions on anything (within the Cocoon's mission) that you could use help with, including but not limited to:

  • The job-market (applying for jobs, etc.)
  • Issues in the profession (including issues of social justice)
  • Graduate school
  • Publishing
  • Teaching (including in the age of A.I.)
  • Work-life balance
  • Mental health & well-being
  • Personal struggles
  • Etc.

Ask away – we're here to help! 

Finally, a quick reminder of the following RULE: Please do not submit replies to other comments in this thread. It makes these threads unwieldy and difficult for me to keep track of which queries I've posted new threads on. If you'd like to respond to a comment in this thread, please wait until I dedicate a new post to the person's query myself and comment in that thread instead!

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56 responses to “How can we help you? (April 2025)”

  1. eternal recurrence of the same

    Empirical question: Do we expect to see individuals in precarious* TT positions ‘applying down’ (in a non-pejorative sense) in the coming years? That is, applying to full-time lecturer positions, select VAPs and Postdocs, and so on?
    Normative question: Ought search committee members not think twice when an application from just such a candidate pops up on their desktop? If in fact there’s reason to worry about such an applicant even after they’ve stated clearly in their cover letter why they are applying, can folks say more about what the worries would be?
    *By this I largely mean TT positions in red states whose boards of higher ed are hell-bent on demanding that their public universities divest from the humanities; or someone whose in a position where their major is on the chopping block (or already chopped); and so on

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  2. apprendiendo

    I’d love recommendations anyone might have for spanish-language philosophy podcasts. Thanks in advance!

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  3. anonymousgradstudent

    I am wondering how the new president will affect the upcoming job market (especially in America)? More revealingly: is this recent political turn a significant hit to my chances of success given that I am a non-American grad student working on Black/Africana philosophy, planning on applying next cycle?

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  4. Book reviewer

    I expect this has been covered before, but I’d keen to write a few book reviews for journals. Set aside the point that this is not especially valuable on a C.V., I simply like the idea of doing it. Also, it seems a nice way of engaging with – and (hopefully )making yourself known – to people who are doing important work in your field of research.
    Question: How do people go about doing this? I’ve looked at some journals that publish book reviews, but they don’t provide any information (e.g., a list of books available for review or how to go about reviewing a book).
    Do you write the review and then submit it? Do you agree with the journal to write the review before doing so?
    Books can be very expensive – can you expect journals to provide books?
    Any insights welcome!

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  5. Bad Proofreader

    I struggle with proofreading. I never manage to completely eliminate small errors from my published work, and I am embarrassed by this. Does anyone have any tips for more effective proofreading? Has anyone managed to leverage AI to effectively help with proofreading and editing?

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  6. ChastenedAuthor

    Can we get updated advice or pointers on doing R&Rs for top-5 journals?

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  7. apprehensive emailer

    What are the best practices for cold-emailing someone whose work you admire but that you don’t know personally (especially if you’re still early career)?

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  8. I’m out

    After years trying to solve my two-body problem, I’ve decided I’m finished with the profession. Living alone while fascism rises is just not worth it (I’m in the US). But for various reasons, I can’t leave for another year. I worry that the job advice here and elsewhere may be moot by that time, given the rise of AI, a looming economic crisis in the US, and all the rest. Is there anything I should or can be doing now? Is an immediate pivot a wiser move than waiting, even if that means leaving an employer stuck and ongoing academic collaborators in the lurch?
    I imagine there are others in similar positions. If so, thoughts about how to manage another year in academia while mentally having moved on, thinking about other careers, would be welcome.

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  9. Stressed Graduate Student

    I’m a first year PhD student working with my dream supervisor. However, they are moving to a different school and I am really not sure what I should be doing – without my supervisor, the university really has just one other person I could work with and they are not in my department.
    My supervisor has said a transfer to his new institution isn’t possible after asking about it at his job talk/negotiations. He has said it would be possible to be a “visiting student” there and still work with him – possibly going back and forth between the two departments (they are in different cities roughly 7 hours away). The solution seems quite disappointing to me – I am only at this department because he was here, and staying here even if I get to visit his new department and possibly TA there as well does not seem the same as being a student there. I’m sure he could be on my committee from almost anywhere really if that’s the case. The cost of living is also much higher in his new city and my funding would still be the same.
    I guess my question is how should I approach a transfer to another department? Since it is April now, I wouldn’t be able to start in September presumably. I am also not sure how transfer credits work – I have an MA as well and if I transfer for 2026-2027 academic year, would I have to re-start all my coursework again? Should I be applying as a regular PhD applicant or contact a professor I want to work with and explain my situation? Staying here is really out of the question – there is no one in the philosophy department I could work with or even take courses with. Leaving after 2 years to a new department only to start from the very beginning, for another 5-7 year program, seems like I just threw a few years doing coursework (albeit with a stipend so I recognize how lucky I still am).

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  10. Hi

    Hello, I’m an American prospective PhD student deciding between a funded offer at Oxbridge and a funded offer at a top 20 US program. Would anyone would be willing to share their thoughts on doing a UK vs. a US PhD program? (Especially in light of the current political situation in the US)

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  11. Seeking outside opportunities

    The last two academic years I was a fellow in a program funded by a libertarian/classical liberal center. I have greatly enjoyed the program and found it to be intellectually open and energizing, as well as a great opportunity to talk to other phd students from a variety of disciplines. It has also provided a very very helpful boost to my meager graduate stipend. The format of the fellowship was 3-4 colloquia throughout the year with read-ahead discussion sections during each one. Despite my enjoyment of the program, I’m curious if anyone knows of a similar style of fellowship that focuses on a different tradition (e.g. social democracy).

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  12. Befuddled

    After not teaching for a while, I am teaching three courses this semester. In each of the courses I have had at least one student email mid semester to inform me that they will miss an exam due to travel. In three of these cases, the students asked if they could take the exam earlier or later than the scheduled date.
    Is this normal behavior now?? And how do I preemptively discourage these kinds of requests – is more specific syllabus language enough (if it works at all)? I would like to hear of others’ experiences and strategies.

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  13. Crappy Citation Manager!

    What’s the purpose of citations in papers?
    I’m having trouble determining the line between over-citing and losing my tone (and risk just saying what other people are saying) but also under-citing (but feel like I’m doing something wrong).
    I want to make nods to the literature and earn my way into a conversation through citations – but often, there just aren’t people saying exactly what I’m saying and I lose my reader when I try to manipulate citations to fit my project.
    Any thoughts would be helpful on people’s views of citing other work in philosophy papers!

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  14. thinking ahead

    In the mid-term future, I’m planning to write a book that will synthesise material from ~4 or 5 articles I’ve published in journals. I have some draft material for the manuscript, feel good about the book’s place in the market, and am excited about writing it, but I feel somewhat confused about the whole book proposal process. I don’t know very many people who’ve recently published books on the choosier presses to ask for advice, either.
    I know that there has been some general book proposal advice given on here before, but does anyone know if anyone has ever publicly shared a successful book proposal they wrote for one of the big presses in philosophy? And does cold-emailing really stand a chance of success for e.g. OUP?

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  15. Regrets?

    I was wondering if people can share stories about things that they regret publishing, or they they regret publishing how they did

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  16. Pubs to doors

    Kind of similar to the post above me, but in the opposite direction, can people share stories about specific publications that they know opened doors for them, especially for opportunities outside of academia?

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  17. early career

    I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on how a handbook article should (or could?) look different to a paper published in a journal? Or even whether people feel that one should write differently for edited volumes than for journals?
    I’ve heard people make passing comments suggesting that something different is expected. But I’m not entirely sure what the difference should be. Thoughts appreciated!

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  18. Teaching Ethics

    I’m sure that this has been mentioned a million times, but I love teaching from cases in my ethics classes. The National Ethics Bowl through APPE is a pretty great resource. But I’d really love to hear if people have other resources or collections of cases like these which we might use in an ethics class!

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  19. Grad Student

    I’m a graduate student at an adequate department (think top 40) with a strong placement record. [Perhaps those details don’t matter but in case they do I’ve included them.]
    While I enjoy research and would be happy to make it my career, I find myself more attracted (at the moment) to the long term career prospects of having a teaching focus rather than a research focus. How would you recommend someone in my position approach their work and the job market? What should I have on my CV? What types of jobs should I be looking for when I enter the market? Am I crazy for preferring the idea of a career as a professor with a teaching focus?

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  20. Didn’t get the invite

    I’d be grateful if people could shed some light on “invited” publications. I see this on CVs: under “research” there are publications which are listed as “invited”. These include contributions to edited volumes, but I’ve also seen what at least appear to be journal articles sometimes listed as “invited”. How does one get invited to contribute to an edited volume/journal? Is this something that just happens as one’s work becomes more known? Is it more of a social thing; a matter of being friends with the right people? Do “invited” publications go through a blind review process like regular journal articles? From the perspective of hiring committees, do invited publications look just as good a paper that was accepted at a journal after going through blind review? Better? Worse? I’m a junior person who’s only ever published by submitting manuscripts to journals. Any info here would be appreciated.

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  21. Anon ABD

    Dissertation Committee/Job-Market Question:
    I am an ABD graduate student at a top-50 currently visiting a top program. I have three professors on my dissertation committee: two at my home institution and my sponsoring professor from the institution I’m visiting. All have offered to write me letters for when I enter the job market next year, so I currently have three general letters.
    I am currently sitting in on two seminars at the institution I am visiting. The first is the seminar of my sponsoring professor. The second is a seminar by a very well-regarded professor not in my AoS but in a nearby discipline where I have at least some specialist knowledge (if it helps: I work primarily in philosophy of mind, and the seminar is Mind/Language). The latter professor has repeatedly thanked me in personal discussions for my contributions inside and outside of class and offered to look at a paper I’ve been working on broadly related to the course topic. In general, we seem to vibe really well.
    I have three questions: should I ask them for a recommendation, despite their not being in my AoS nor being the professor I am specifically visiting at this institution? Second, and relatedly: should I ask them to be on my committee? I really value their input generally and we’ve talked a bit about my dissertation topic, which they seem to be interested in even if it’s not strictly in their AoS (it’s more on perception than language). Their being on my committee would also seem to help with 1., insofar as they can become more familiar with my core work. Third, should I worry about this putting off any of my extant committee members/letter writers? I’ve had a lot of really good interactions with my sponsoring professor, for example, but I worry adding a second member of the department to my committee would look desperate, or like social climbing.
    Any input is appreciated! Can also supply more details if needed.

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  22. David

    CV question: do you list submitted papers or posters to conferences, or ongoing session planning for a future conference, on your CV?
    Maybe just adding it to the list of papers/posters presented and sessions organized, with a note that its still just a submission or in progress or by a separate section “Conferences Submissions” (or something like that?
    I ask both because I am cleaning my CV for the end of year filing at my PhD program and for an application to an academic society.
    Thank you for your advice!

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  23. Author and reader

    I’m curious how people keep up with their subfields and with philosophy in general.
    I personally check out anything new uploaded to PhilPapers under the problem of evil category, and I go through the titles of all the articles when there’s a new issue in Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, Int. Journal for PoR, or Sophia, looking for anything interesting.
    I’d appreciate if other people can share what they do. I’m especially curious if there are people who go through all the titles in generalist journals from the bottom half of Leiter’s top 20 and outside of it. Lately I wondered if articles in those journals have a chance of being discovered and read simply by being published in those journals, without external sources like PhilPapers or citations pointing potential readers towards them.

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  24. Job marketeer

    I had to withdraw from a class due to personal reasons. I am going on the job market next term—does one ‘W’ look bad on a transcript to job committee members or is this only a problem if there is more than one?

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  25. Beginner philosopher of religion

    I saw a few discussions here and in other blogs about journal rankings, but only very little about rankings of journals that specialize in philosophy of religion. I would appreciate if people could share their insights as to how they think the different journals are viewed in the field, and what other differences there are between the journals.
    Thank you!

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  26. Speaking of specialty rankings

    It seems like the top ethics journal landscape is a bit different than it was the last time Leiter did a poll – JPP became (?) Political Philosophy, PPA is Free & Equal but then there’s the Wiley PPA with new editors. Is Ethics the best, then these old/new ones lumped together in a tier below it? Anything to say about which seems better than the others?

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  27. OntarioQuestions

    I wondering whether someone can shed light on this question: is it consistent with standard disciplinary norms in philosophy to count an article in a current promotion file as a publication, if it was previously listed as forthcoming – but not counted as a publication – in an earlier promotion review.
    To provide some context, at the time of my promotion to associate professor a few years ago, I had a peer-reviewed article that had been accepted and forthcoming but not yet published. Because it wasn’t in print, I did not count it as a publication, consistent with standard practices and disciplinary norms; instead, I listed it under a separate section of my promotion portfolio – “evidence of ongoing scholarship” – as advised. The article was published three months after my promotion to associate professor.
    Now, as I prepare my portfolio for promotion to full professor, I would obviously like to include this article in my record of published research. However, I wish to proceed in my promotion process with an abundance of caution and integrity.
    My question is: is it consistent with standard disciplinary norms in philosophy to count this article as a publication for my current promotion file, given that it was listed as forthcoming (but not counted as a publication) in my prior promotion file?
    I would assume that this is the case, but neither my department’s RTP guidelines nor the university contract address this question directly.
    To be clear: I’m merely seeking clarification on whether a disciplinary norm exists for these situations. Thanks for any and all input and/or references.
    Best,
    -OQ

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  28. ECR

    I’m wondering if there is a list somewhere with journals known for a relatively quick review and decision process (lower-tier journals also if indexed). Alternatively, I am wondering if anyone could share relevant anecdotes mentioning the journals, providing alternatives to horror story journals. This could be very useful for people pressed for time (on the job market or trying to meet tenure/promotion/grant funding requirements in time).

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  29. awesome accessibility

    @Bad proofreader, I don’t think completely eliminating small errors is feasible. But something that helps me is using text to speech, I listen to paper and I catch a lot of missing words, duplicated words and just wrong words. Two caveats is that it can be time consuming, and obviously doesn’t work well for formal work.

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  30. wondering

    I’m writing with a sincere question, one that I hope does not sound too paranoid. (Given my situation, I’m quite happy to have my impression corrected!)
    Over a year ago, I submitted a paper to a top-ranked journal known for its quick turnaround time (less than a month for a first decision). After receiving no updates about my submission, I reached out six months later. Nothing. After reaching out again two months later (so, eight months after the initial submission), I received a response. The editors apologized for the delay and their response indicated that they had two referee invitations out. I was surprised and disappointed to learn that that was all that had happened in eight months, but oh well, that’s academic publishing! Then, four months later, after not finding any clear update in the submission portal, I reached out again. I was told at that point that one referee report had been secured, but that they were still attempting to find a second referee. From the submission portal, I gather that they located a second referee under a month ago. It’s been 14 months since my initial submission.
    Of course, I’ve found this frustrating, but I’ve tried to be patient and understanding, as I know that everyone is overworked, and understand the amount of time and labor that goes into editing and refereeing. (I have two referee reports due currently, so I know this firsthand!)
    In any case, here’s the thing that bothers me. I have a friend who submitted a paper to this same journal long after I did. Their paper seems to have been reviewed promptly and was published in that journal months ago. That friend is at a Leiter-ranked R1 with a PhD program and graduated from a top PhD program in philosophy; I am at a large public teaching institution with no graduate program and graduated from an unranked PhD program. Although I have no idea how my paper stacks up–I’m bad at getting a sense of this stuff when it comes to my own work, and anyway think it’s not always possible to stack papers up against one another–I worry that my submission has been de-prioritized somehow. And I worry that it’s because of my relative lack of prestige (a lack of institutional prestige and PhD-granted institution prestige).
    Does this sort of thing happen? (I should probably mention that I’ve successfully published in highly ranked journals before.)

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  31. re: wondering

    re: wondering we would need to know more – is this a paper in a smaller or unusual AOS/intersection of topics? Finding referees is often dependent on the topic of the paper and I’d be curious about how your topic compared to the other person’s.

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  32. author and reviewer

    Do people think AI is going to undermine the peer-review process? It’s only a matter of time, I think, before AI reliably recognizes people’s writing. I suppose journals could always run reviews through an AI editor to anonymize them, but I don’t like the idea of running manuscripts themselves through them.

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  33. anon

    How do internal hires work in the U.S.? I’ve noticed some people starting jobs at universities without the positions being posted (at least to my knowledge).

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  34. is all teaching equal?

    I know hiring committees do not look favorably upon publications in low quality journals, but is the same true for teaching/adjuncting experience at low ranking colleges? I currently have no teaching experience and my department lost my TA teaching evaluations. My postdoc in an interdisciplinary center has been purely research based, so I’m inclined to think some outside evidence of teaching abilities in philosophy would be better than having none at all but I’m not sure.

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  35. David

    In a recent post, it sounded like people were thinking that publications in conference volumes, where everyone who participated in the conference receives a block invitation to submit their paper for review, are functionally identical to invited publications. Is this true? Should publications in conference proceedings or books compiled from a conference be treated like invited publications on a CV, where you may sometimes want to indicate that they are invited? (Is this an example of academic “over-thinking” it?)
    Thank you for your help!

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  36. psychological inquiry

    this is a rather unusual question. It’s a question about usual psychology people have, but first, a bit of explanation. Somehow what I show on the outside often differs from how I feel from inside (not deliberately!). For example, when I speak calmly and relaxed in a talk, there is a good chance that I feel panic inside (at least initially), and when I sound nervous, there is a good chance that I actually feel very confident inside (at least initially). Also, I can come off sweet when I talk to people I don’t like, but come off mean or harsh when it’s someone I respect. These are just some examples. I wonder if other people have any unusual psychologies related to the profession. I am not trying to be nosy. But I am a bit tired/sad of only seeing the “masks” and not the interiors, given how different my own “masks” differ from the interior. (I didn’t talk about this with colleagues because it might sound too bizarre and off putting.)

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  37. specialquestion

    When should I consider editing a special issue for a journal? It would be on a topic that I work on. Do only well-established, senior people do these, or can junior scholars also edit special issues? Is there any reason to do it before or after tenure?

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  38. Bill V.

    Have you seen this, Marcus? Might be worth posting. I just saw it on BlueSky (are you over there?).
    https://bpa.ac.uk/resources-for-early-career-philosophers/

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  39. Imposters Syndrome and Survivor’s Guilt

    I’ve finally won the job market and got a tenure track position. But somehow, I’m feeling down. In part, I feel like an imposter that is going to be caught soon. Moreover, I feel guilty for getting what others deserve or deserve even more. Are there other people who had similar experiences? How did you deal with it?

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  40. Grad student

    There is plenty of information about good philosophy journals, including Leiter’s rankings. But I’m curious to know what people think about philosophy conferences.
    So my question is: which philosophy conferences do you consider good? The evaluation could be based on prestige, quality of feedback, etc. They can also be either “generalist” or “specialist”.
    For example, I expect the Joint Session and the APA Meetings to be good “generalist” conferences, and Euro X-Phi to be a good “specialist” conference in experimental philosophy.

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  41. Luckybreak?

    People say journals are a crapshoot but is there a way of getting lucky with journals that’s not just pure chance? I feel I’ve been extra lucky with top journals, even with papers that I thought weren’t as good. Maybe I sound like someone with imposter syndrome but I’m wondering if people google the paper title and decide to greenlight my paper because they like me as a person.

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  42. frustrated grad student

    I submitted a short paper built around a distinction that, as far as I know, hasn’t been made, at least in the language I used. It recently got rejected, and the referee report was very rude — i.e., the kind of stuff you would never say to someone if it weren’t anonymous, even if you thought the paper was really bad. I haven’t gotten a rejection that venomous before, so I spent more time than usual obsessing over who might have written it. Given the things they cited and the style they used, I got a hunch it was Philosopher X. Then I looked at Philosopher X’s website, and found an abstract for an in-progress paper — about my distinction, using the language I used to make the distinction, but without citing me. (Not that I would expect to be cited, because I have not publicly posted the draft anywhere.) Using the wayback machine, I found that the abstract was recently uploaded — there’s no trace that this philosopher said anything about this distinction, using that language, before I submitted my paper.
    Also, Philosopher X is super high-profile, and I’m an ABD grad student. We’ve crossed paths at conferences a couple of times and know some of the same people.
    Given that, two questions…
    -How likely is it that this is just a coincidence? Maybe the kinds of unconscious processes that led me to have my idea and use the language I did to express it also led Philosopher X to do the same — given that we’re talking to some of the same people, reading the same stuff, etc. Plus, there’s really no practical pressure for them to take a random grad student’s ideas — their career is set. And, you would naively hope, the fact that they’re writing a paper about the same idea would show that they’re not the same referee who thinks that the idea is so stupid that they have to be 10/10 rude in their rejection of it.
    -No judgment (this is all anonymous anyway!): has anyone ever used an idea from a paper they rejected? I assume this is not a very common practice, which is part of what makes this feel uncommonly galling. But I haven’t refereed a lot of papers; maybe others think this is more normal. It is, of course, possible to like an idea in a paper that you think shouldn’t be published, maybe it gives you a nearby idea, maybe you think you shouldn’t be barred from publishing this nearby idea until the original paper comes out. (After all, if you think the paper is extremely bad, maybe you think it will never come out!) Not to excuse the behavior — just trying to think of what might lead someone to do this. Anyway, what are the norms here?

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  43. B

    Sometimes when I quote a passage from another philosopher, I’d like to remove a paragraph break without removing any words. How does one indicate this? I feel like both using and not using an ellipsis would be misleading.

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  44. anon

    Are postdoc salaries negotiable? I’m thinking in particular of European postdocs funded by the ERC, where the PI might have some leeway over allocation of funds, but I’m also wondering in general if postdoc or even VAP salaries are negotiable (and are negotiations expected) in the same way that TT salaries are.

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  45. anon

    How do internal hires work in the U.S.? I’ve noticed some people starting jobs at universities without the positions being posted (at least to my knowledge).

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  46. Download counts

    Do people check the download counts on other people’s papers on Philpapers and websites of journals that have those metrics? I wonder if people think or know that someone might check that kind of thing when evaluating a job candidate, or if people look at that when “checking out” another philosopher in general.

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  47. New Philosopher

    I’m a new grad student, and I’m wondering about the use of mathematical symbols like φ or Δ in analytic philosophy, like when papers say things like “for some proposition p that holds a disposition d to do φ under circumstances c…”
    Is there an agreed-upon set of industry standards for when to use what symbol, or is it totally up to you? I’ve noticed that people like to use “w” for worlds, for example – is that a standard that you’ll get frowned on for violating, or is it just easy to remember?

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  48. On the brink

    I am looking for advice on what to do about a paper that I’ve tried to get published for years and is, frankly, kind of ruining my life. For context, this paper is the biggest idea I have and comes out of my dissertation. Every one of my advisors speaks very highly of the paper, so I do think the general idea is quite good and novel. In response to various forms of feedback, however, I have rewritten the paper many times over the years in order to reframe it and the like. I do not yet have a TT job, and I unfortunately seem to take far longer than the average person to rewrite papers. So, the opportunity cost on this one paper has been fairly enormous for my job market prospects. It feels like I may have gotten a TT job by now if I’d only ever had smaller, more publishable ideas and had never come up with the idea for this particular paper.
    This summer, I am in the process of rewriting it yet again. Every time I interact with this paper, though, it feels absolutely awful on a visceral and spiritual level. I think it has become something of a symbol at this point of my failures thus far at making it in academic philosophy. Given that, I would love to just abandon it, especially for the time being. Since I’ve already sunk so much time into it, though, I worry it will look bad if my CV doesn’t soon have that paper in the publications list, which is currently too light for my years since defending. Given that, I’m tempted to just send it off somewhere now in its former version, but that would also mean that the past month or so that I’ve been working on the new version during my precious teaching-free summer time will have been a complete waste. That said, every time I seriously work on this paper I get very close to quitting my teaching job and leaving the profession altogether.
    Any advice (or commiseration) would be greatly appreciated!

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  49. Noob

    I’m a graduate student working on modern philosophy. I’m trying to figure out where to attempt to publish my work. What is the hierarchy of journals that publish essays in that area?

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  50. APA Submitter

    When submitting papers to the APA, I often just move a bunch of paragraphs to footnotes since the word count excludes footnotes, because all of my papers are much longer than 3k words. I figure the referee can get the big idea by only reading the main text, but since the paragraphs are written I might as well keep them at least in footnotes.
    1) Is this what others do? Why or why not?
    2) For anyone who has refereed APA papers, is this frowned upon or a mark against a paper? Or is it simply common practice?

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  51. Anonymous AP

    I just received tenure and this blog helped a lot with getting a sense of the publication requirements to do so. Now I’m looking ahead to Full and wondering what the norms are there in terms of books, articles, books vs. articles, etc.

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  52. Carter

    I was asked to review a paper that I submitted, by an editor, presumably since the journal I submitted to is triple-blind. I was wondering what the best way to decline the invitation is and whether I should mention that I wrote it.

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  53. Mariana Noe

    Hello everyone!
    Several undergraduate students in my Plato seminar wrote very interesting papers, and I want to suggest some venues where they might present their work. So far, I have identified the following annual undergraduate philosophy conferences:
    – Cornell University’s Norman Kretzmann Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
    – University of Toronto’s Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference
    – Pacific University’s Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
    – Eastern Michigan University’s Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy
    Are there any other undergraduate philosophy conferences I should know about or that you would recommend? Thank you!

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  54. alt-ac q

    I wonder if anyone has general tips for those who want to transition from the academic job market to the university administrator market. Since universities are hiring fewer permanent faculty and more administrators, one plausible alt-ac route is to simply market oneself as an administrator.
    One specific tip I’m looking for: which sort of experience should I be looking to get as someone currently in a temporary position at an R1?

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  55. R2s?

    Are there any special job-market strategies for placement at R2 institutions? They’re not quite elite R1s, but neither are they teaching institutions. They’re somewhere in between.
    My guess is that it is probably best to treat them like R1s, and follow much of the advice in the Job Market Boot Camp Series accordingly: https://philosopherscocoon.typepad.com/blog/2019/07/tailoring-your-job-market-strategy-to-your-situation.html
    Marcus defines them “roughly as research universities without philosophy PhD programs” here: https://philosopherscocoon.typepad.com/blog/2015/03/job-market-boot-camp-part-2-building-a-good-cv.html

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  56. Philpapers user

    Hello. Me and some fellow Philpapers users have long wondered about this:
    On the Philpapers page of any specific paper, how do I view the full list of people who “liked” or “recommended” that paper? For papers that have many “likes,” the button only shows the first five (random?) names and a sixth line of “and 20 more,” but there does not seem to be a way to expand on that “20 more.”
    Maybe those who run the (immensely helpful) site can illuminate. Thanks.

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