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Do graduate students really make contributions to philosophy? Or is philosophy only advanced by an elite few?
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November 15, 2008

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Peter Smith
November 17, 2008 (changed November 17, 2008) Permalink

Oh, good graduate students most certainly make contributions: they get good papers published in good journals. And if that doesn't count as "making a contribution", then very few of us make contributions. (Our students make contributions in another important way too: they teach their teachers, keep us enthused, prompt better work from us too.)

Of course, few pieces published by graduate students make stunning advances: but then few pieces published by anyone make stunning advances (in philosophy or in any other discipline).

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