Publish or perish
Publish or perish
Funds and positions in philosophy should be awarded through systems that are reliable, objective, and efficient. One question usually taken to be relevant is how many publications people have in a group of well-respected journals. However, in the context of significant competition for jobs and funding, relying on publication quantity creates a serious downside: the oft-lamented demand that we ‘publish or perish’. We offer a systematic review of the problems involved in contemporary academic philosophy, and argue that the resulting situation is bad not just for individual philosophers, but for philosophy itself: we are not working as a discipline to as high a standard as we might. We then suggest some potential solutions, including some more detailed considerations around what seems to us a particularly promising option: a professional code of conduct for philosophers.
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Felappi, Giulia
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Davies, Benjamin
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October 2017
Felappi, Giulia
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Davies, Benjamin
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Felappi, Giulia and Davies, Benjamin
(2017)
Publish or perish.
Metaphilosophy, 48 (5), .
(doi:10.1111/meta.12269).
Abstract
Funds and positions in philosophy should be awarded through systems that are reliable, objective, and efficient. One question usually taken to be relevant is how many publications people have in a group of well-respected journals. However, in the context of significant competition for jobs and funding, relying on publication quantity creates a serious downside: the oft-lamented demand that we ‘publish or perish’. We offer a systematic review of the problems involved in contemporary academic philosophy, and argue that the resulting situation is bad not just for individual philosophers, but for philosophy itself: we are not working as a discipline to as high a standard as we might. We then suggest some potential solutions, including some more detailed considerations around what seems to us a particularly promising option: a professional code of conduct for philosophers.
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Submitted date: 21 June 2017
Accepted/In Press date: 21 June 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 October 2017
Published date: October 2017
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411735
ISSN: 0026-1068
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