The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Category: Professional ethics
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In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Lately, I’ve been trying out ChatGPT-4o on some of my own manuscripts—just asking it to summarize the papers and see what it picks up. To my surprise, it actually does a pretty good job. It seems to understand what I'm trying to say,…
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In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: What do we make of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I3KQjHfZjY The creator does not direct their concerns towards Academic Philosophy (or any other part of the Humanities), but as someone pursuing their postgraduate/doctorate/postdoc, how seriously should one take the rather strongly made suggestions in the video?…
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In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Question about publication 'ethics': Say a philosopher is working on a project and is drafting a long, journal article length paper on the subject. While working on that project, the opportunity arises to publish a much shorter commentary style paper version of the…
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In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Do you know philosophy journals reviewed in single-anonymized or identities-visible models? Recently I saw an established philosophy journal published by Springer say in its submission guidelines that its peer review process is single anonymized. According to the accompanying taxonomy file available at https://osf.io/we82nSingle anonymized…