WELL: I just got the following e-mail from my Philosophy seminar professor, about her returning our papers to us, with comments:
"There are a couple of you who will need to rewrite almost from the ground up, even though you got good grades, because your arguments, despite their ingenuity, all fail to work. Don't despair. Philosophers come up with ingenious-sounding arguments that fail to work all the time. that's why journals have referees."
On one hand, I find this extremely refreshing, because it means that papers can't be sabotaged because there's some powerful objection floating around the philosophical literature on free will that we failed to account for. On the other hand, it is a philosophy paper, and if you're not being judged on the quality of your arguments, what are you being judged on?
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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