Saturday, February 3, 2018

Finding My Own Style

When I first started to write serious philosophy, I needed to find my style. At first I sought to satisfy the demands of major journals. In their upper echelons, they are hugely idiosyncratic. You can't, say, take an Oxford paper and submit it to Cambridge. The differences are far too great. I finally quit this approach when Durham University commented that my work "could be of relevance to a wide range of philosophical positions", but vetoed it because I quoted from the Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics -- which, as best I could tell, they simply didn't like. At this time I decided to do my own style, no matter who it would appeal to. OBSERVATION: If I hadn't done that, I might not have got very far at all.

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