How to Get a Good Paper Through Peer Review

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"I love refereeing in peer review like it's I appreciate the effort that goes in making papers better both from referees and from editors I did not," he says. "It's way easier as a practicing physicist I can I can promise to make your life much more difficult if you have an idea which was worth for real hand Examples of bad papers that have gotten through peer review and good papers that have been stopped yeah" He adds: "You never know whether I'm serious or not."

Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth — what it is, and how to get there — can be a little sloppy at times. Philosophy to the rescue! I had a very ambitious conversation with Liam Kofi Bright, starting with what we mean by “truth” (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary approaches), and then getting into the nitty-gritty of how we actually discover it. There’s a lot to think about once we take a hard look at how science gets done, how discoveries are communicated, and what different kinds of participants can bring to the table.

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Liam Kofi Bright received his Ph.D. in Logic, Computation and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently on the faculty of the London School of Economics in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and the Scientific Method. He has worked on questions concerning peer review and fraud in scientific communities, intersectionality, logical empiricism, and Africana philosophy. He is well-known on Twitter as the Last Positivist.

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