Oblique citation and direct rejection

In his PhD thesis, Stijn Conix briefly considers the suggestion “that it does not make sense to think of values and epistemic standards as taking priority over each other.”1 In a footnote, he cites Matthew Brown “who refers to Magnus making a similar remark in personal communication.”

That’s cool, because I have made such a remark. I have a draft paper in which I defend it.

Frustratingly, today I got another rejection notice for that paper. I’ll take a day to cool off before looking at the referee comments again, and then I’ll decide on my next move. The most effective strategy for disseminating ideas might be to just talk to Matt Brown more often. Alas, that’s hard to document on my CV.


  1. Radical Pluralism, Ontological Underdetermination, and the Role of Values in Species Classification. 2018. p. 102.

One thought on “Oblique citation and direct rejection”

  1. Seems clear that Conix should have e-mailed you to ask if you’d written anything about this rather than citing obliquely!

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