Time to talk about your experience publishing

Sally Haslanger (MIT) wants to know about your experience publishing, regardless of your career stage (grad student, pre-tenure prof, post-tenure prof). Please help her out. As many of you may know, she's been (among many other things) trying to get the profession to think about the conditions under which we practice philosophy, hire new professors, and develop careers. So, the answers to this survey could be helpful in getting a snapshot of publication experiences in the profession. Original email message below.

(Two notes: I can report that the advice below is accurate: it is very useful to have your CV available when you do the survey. Also, this is an opportunity to help raise the visibility of Philosophy of Action/Agency. It isn't listed as an area of specialization, but you can write it in under "Other." Please do so, so Sally and others will say "Wow, I hadn't realized there were so many people working in Philosophy of Action" or "Wow, philosophers of action have lots of effective mentors" or what have you.)

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All professional philosophers are invited to participate in a survey on publishing in philosophy.  

It should take about 10 minutes.  It will be useful to have your CV handy as you fill it out.  Please go here to find it:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=TXA9uBYCaq4MtU_2bwLhLADQ_3d_3d
If all goes well, Sally Haslanger will report on the results at the December APA in the symposium on philosophy publishing (Wednesday December 30th, 11:15-1:15).
Thanks for your help.  Please spread the word.
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Comments

[Fritz Warfield]

There was an odd question at the end of the survey about to what journal(s) one would advise a colleague to submit a hypothetical paper. The paper was generically described as something like on an analytic philosophy topic but also connecting the issue to feminist theory. The question did not say whether the paper was on a topic in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science....the paper topic was left as generic as above. Would I recommend this paper be submitted to Mind? to Ethics? to Philosophy of Science? to JSL? My reaction was: "well, tell me what the paper is about, or at least what broad area it falls under within 'analytic philosophy' and I'll likely have an answer for you...But perhaps I misread the question -- it was the last or penultimate question so maybe I did that.

[Neal Tognazzini]

Fritz -- I had the same reaction to that question and said so in the comments box.

I also ended up skipping a bunch of pages of the survey that asked about my "most influential article" -- being a first-year professor with only a handful of publications, I don't think any of my articles even so much as crosses the threshold of influentiality! It would have been nice if there were a "click this button if your articles have had no influence whatsoever" button.

[Dan Speak]

I also noticed that there was no button for "The world is objectively dummer for having my published work in it. May God rest my soul." That's the one I needed, so I skipped a few pages of the survey, too.