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Category: Public philosophy
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader writes: I was wondering what people think about contributed chapters to "X and philosophy" books. Are they just considered a 'popular publication' or are they closer to a contributed chapter to an edited volume? Are they peer reviewed in any serious sense? Good questions!…
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This is a guest post by Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University) on reading and writing fiction, for a series of blogposts we are hosting on philosophers who write fiction or poetry (see here for an earlier installment). My mother was an artist who became a writer because she found that it was easier, while…
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This is the third installment of our series on publishing popular philosophy books, written by Tamler Sommers, University of Houston. Helen De Cruz invited me to write a post on writing for non-academic audiences in connection to my 2018 book Why Honor Matters – to give advice to early career philosophers about the process of…
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In academia, it's very common to think that you could have done more: work more efficiently, work better. This perpetual guilt plagues all of us, particularly those of us on the job market, but even people with tenured positions (which Covid-19 has also made less secure). Closely related to this idea that you could always…