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

November 15, 2008

Response from Peter Smith on November 17, 2008
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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