TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levy,Neil
TI  - Philosophy, bullshit, and peer review
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in epistemology,
SN  - 9781009256315 (ebook)
AV  - LB2369 .L48 2023
U1  - 808.02 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Academic writing
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Peer review
KW  - Publishing
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023); Open Access
N2  - Peer review is supposed to ensure that published work, in philosophy and in other disciplines, meets high standards of rigor and interest. But many people fear that it no longer is fit to play this role. This Element examines some of their concerns. It uses evidence that critics of peer review sometimes cite to show its failures, as well as empirical literature on the reception of bullshit, to advance positive claims about how the assessment of scholarly work is appropriately influenced by features of the context in which it appears: for example, by readers' knowledge of authorship or of publication venue. Reader attitude makes an appropriate and sometimes decisive difference to perceptions of argument quality. This Element finishes by considering the difference that author attitudes to their own arguments can appropriately make to their reception. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009256315
ER  -