Philosophy Job Market and Publishing Advice

There's been a fair amount of online discussion of the kind of issues which will be preying on the mind of almost any philosophy graduate student facing the twin hurdles of the academic job market and landing a paper in a peer-reviewed journal. I'll be collecting links to such discussions here, and sorting them into four groups. The first deals with advice on whether graduate students should try to publish, and on how to make it into print. The second collects info on specific journals - their place in the hierarchy, their turnaround time, whether they give referee-reports to the authors, whether they publish discussion notes, etc. The third group contains advice on how to be successful on the philosophy job market. Finally, the fourth category includes links to various reflections by individuals on the job market and their own experiences of it.

Aside from these rough-and-ready groupings, I have resisted the urge to act as editor. Those who follow any of the links provided here will have to exercise their own judgment concerning how useful or accurate the advice and info offered is. Whenever possible I have labeled links with the name of the author and the year the linked material appeared on the web (or was last updated). The reader should note that it is often in the comments thread of a page linked here that one will find the relevant discussion.

The idea for this page came from Brit Brogaard's homepage, which includes links to a number of the pages linked below. My thanks to Brit for compiling these, thereby making my task here a lot easier. Thanks also to those who have already suggested additions. Since I first put this page up, it's been brought to my attention that Gualtiero Piccinini has a similar site, Resources for students, which I'd recommend also looking at. Also well worth a visit is Philosophy Advice, which offers a host of important links.

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