@AgnesCallard So for a long time I've disliked the practice of marking in-progress work with "Do not copy, cite, or circulate." It seems not to respect the reader's epistemic agency. Because what is that reader to do, if he learns from the draft? [1/N]
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Immediately try to forget all about it? That seems impossible and inadvisable. Talk and write about it, not citing the author? In that case, the reader seems led into breaking a promise. Swear off writing (or even talking) about the subject? That seems bad too! [2/N]
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Could this be a way in which academics stake out territory, sneakily? And what does all of this have to do with plagiarism? [3/3]
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Replying to @NateMeyvis
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@brianfrye that A LOT of what is behind these norms (and some other ones, such as the general demand that an academic paper be "well-versed" in the literature) is a form of what economists call "rent-seeking"1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
But it is imp. to separate how one should act w/i the system (e.g. so as not to be taken advantage of) and what it would take to change it. I haven't really thought about the latter question, it's a huge one!
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Thanks very much for these notes.
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