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Category: Long Journeys into Print
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By Trevor Hedberg If you stay in philosophy long enough, you will eventually have to deal with that paper. It’s a good idea – one that you’re sure deserves to be in print. But for some reason, it keeps getting rejected. You refine your position, clarify ambiguities, respond to new objections – revision, revision, revision…
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Learning how to publish is one of the more difficult parts of becoming a successful academic philosopher. It can take years, and many rejections, to publish a peer-reviewed article. However, the realities of publishing are rarely discussed. We sometimes hear, obliquely, of how long someone struggled to publish a paper–and yet, for most part, others'…