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SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE REQUIREMENTS FOR REVIEWING BOOKS
Author(s) -
WEISSMAN DAVID
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2010.01656.x
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , simple (philosophy) , quality (philosophy) , epistemology , engineering ethics , computer science , sociology , philosophy , engineering , programming language
The quality of peer‐reviewed journals is vulnerable to the absence of declared standards for book reviews. Reviewers should agree to several simple rules before undertaking to review books and while writing them. Sensitivity to an author's aims is one requirement; familiarity with an author's previous and relevant publications is another. Critical judgment is always appropriate, but it can be set apart from an account of the ideas reviewed.