Publish and Perish

Metadata

• Author: [[Agnes Callard]]
• Full Title: Publish and Perish
• Category: #articles
• URL: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/publish-and-perish-agnes-callard/

Highlights

• Writing for the sake of publication—instead of for the sake of being read—is academia’s version of “teaching to the test.” The result is papers few actually want to read.
• Philosophical technology—ideas, arguments, distinctions, questions—cannot live outside the human mind.
• No one thinks that Plato, Descartes, Kant and the rest were right about everything; nonetheless, centuries and millennia later, we cannot stop talking not just about them, but to them, with them. They made us into one of them, and we need to keep paying that forward.