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The Ethics of Academic Journal Editing

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This paper amounts to a reply to Professor Donald G. Brown’s thoughtful comment on my “Ethical Issues in Journal Peer-Review”, which appeared in this journal.

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  1. This is intended to be a moral compliment to both Canadian philosophers in particular and Canadians more generally.

  2. The reader ought to bear in mind that Professor Brown has been in the profession for longer than I have been alive, so his experience surely is not outweighed by mine. Thus I rather respectfully and humbly offer my considered judgments on this topic.

  3. I am aware that this point can be turned on its head. Once a very close friend of mine was telling me about the “best paper he has ever read” on a particular subject, and that he encountered it when he recently refereed it for a highly respected philosophy journal. The more he described the paper, the more I recognized the argument and overall content. When he informed me that he recommended the paper for publication, I was so thrilled that I blurted out that it was mine. I was surprised to know that he would think so highly of anything I would write, and he was surprised that I worked on that topic. It certainly bolstered my confidence to know that he of all philosophers approved of my work. But I do not think I would have been so enthusiastic had he decided to recommend publication knowing I was the author of the said paper.

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Acknowledgements

I am very grateful to Professor Don Brown for our valuable discussion of this issue.

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    J. Angelo Corlett

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Corlett, J.A. The Ethics of Academic Journal Editing. J Acad Ethics 6, 205–209 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-008-9067-7

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