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Kiefer Kazimir's avatar

Academic philosophy would definitely benefit from a profession-wide standardization meeting every say, 10 years. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening as even defining "philosophy" in the context of a Philosophy department seems to be increasingly out of reach, especially as the analytic vs. continental classification slowly becomes less relevant. The closest thing I've seen to a unified terminology is in philosophy dictionaries. Routledge, Cambridge, etc. put out new ones every so often.

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Jonathan's avatar

Great observations. Personally, I wonder if this leads to duplicated efforts in the discipline more broadly. Just anecdotally, I feel like analytic philosophy has a huge problem with 'new' articles basically rehashing the same positions as old articles with little to no additional insight offered. I think other factors likely play a bigger role in this (e.g., in publishing a philosophy article, the author is not limited by the tools at their disposal to the same degree as in the experimental sciences) but I imagine this makes it difficult at all steps of the process from authoring to reviewing.

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