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- Withdrawing a manuscript because of typos and structural issues?
- Completing a US PhD within 4 years?
- Putting lighthearted accomplishments on one’s “author CV” for book proposals?
- The status of the journal “Dialectica”?
- Changing 3rd personal self-citations to 1st person when editing proofs for publication?
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Category: Humor
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Readers may find this site of fictitious job and journal rejection letters to Great Philosophers letters amusing. By and large, the letters are not quite as funny as this fake rejection of Plato's Euthyphro, this fake rejection of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, or the last two paragraphs of this real review of Rawls' A Theory of Justice. However, I…
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The fall semester starts in two weeks (at my institution, at least). It’s time to replenish the stock of philosophy light-bulb jokes. To get things started, here are two: (1) How many Rawlsians does it take to change a light-bulb? Two. One to secure the light-bulb from the original position and one to place…
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Leiter recently published a post linking to a paper by David McNaugton about why much of philosophy is so tedious. Although I've riffed on this question several times — attributing it at least in part to our discipline's overfetishizing rigor – I'd like to comment on a point made by Chris Hallquist in Leiter's thread. Hallquist…
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Is it just me, or does this actually look all kinds of AWESOME? Seriously, I was simultaneously laughing and admiring it all the way through (the book simply entitled "Philosophy" being slammed in the door was so, so funny). Kudos to Leiter for drawing attention to it!