He says, without negative comment, that early-career people want to publish academic philosophy papers in order to get a job. He’s an academic philosopher (who teaches at a university position and has published a bunch of papers) who is familiar with this stuff, and the video is based on a talk he gave.
That is a corrupt motivation for writing a philosophy paper. It’s not about having an idea worth publishing. And he’s just open about it, like he doesn’t see the problem.
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the main reason I guess is it’s
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something to have on the CV which means
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you can get a job or be in a good
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position to apply for a job at the end
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of the PhD end of the postdoc
and
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I’m gonna focus in on what’s going to be
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what I think is gonna be most useful for
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somebody around about the PhD thinking
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about getting towards the end of the PhD
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and using a publication to goal the CV
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and try and get you a job