{"id":421,"date":"2018-09-10T21:49:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=421"},"modified":"2022-05-02T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:10:28","slug":"puzzling-about-philosophy-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/09\/10\/puzzling-about-philosophy-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling about philosophy books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1. Publishers usually set the prices of philosophy books so as to exploit the market, rather than so as to maximize readership. I hate my publisher<\/a> especially, but putting ideas in books often means sequestering them where they won’t be read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Most philosophy is best done in journal articles, both for reasons of style and dissemination. Philosophy is no longer a discipline that requires a book for tenure. So the obvious response to 1 is just not to write books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, there are still some projects that make sense as books rather than as articles. So what’s one to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. For a textbook, I can offer it as an Open Education Resource. If it meets a need, other people will use it. And it can be acknowledged as legit after the fact<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. For a monograph, I can share an unformatted draft<\/a> in the same way I do for articles. This kind of self-archiving (Green OA) should be more common than it is, but that’s a rant for another post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing I’m puzzling about is what alternatives there are for the published book itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. This post felt like it should be a list of numbered points, even though it looks pretentious now that I’ve typed it out.
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1. Publishers usually set the prices of philosophy books so as to exploit the market, rather than so as to maximize readership. I hate my publisher especially, but putting ideas in books often means sequestering them where they won’t be read. 2. Most philosophy is best done in journal articles, both for reasons of style … Continue reading “Puzzling about philosophy books”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-the-profession"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-6N","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}