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recent posts
- 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: Podcasts
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By Tom Kaspers Doing Philosophy is a podcast that is meant to promote the research of early career philosophers. Each episode is essentially an essay in the medium of sound. But instead of just reading an essay out loud—which wouldn’t be terribly interesting—the goal of the podcast is to bring the essay to life by…
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This is just a quick note that the excellent podcast, The Philosopher's Nest, has a new bonus episode up entitled, "What Grad Students Wish They'd Known About Doing a PhD." Here's the episode description: In this second special bonus episode of The Philosopher's Nest, we've asked each of our last 12 guests the same question, and…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: I find postdocs to be the most opaque jobs to apply for in terms of what criteria might be used to assess my application. I’m specifically talking about postdocs, fellow, or JRF-type jobs that are not focused on a specific/defined research project. Often,…
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A reader wrote in to draw my attention to a cool new podcast, Off Campus., featuring interviews with academics who left the academy for alternative ('alt-ac') careers. Here's the full podcast description: Each episode features a guest who has completed substantive postgraduate education in the humanities and who currently works in an alt-ac career. By…