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In article <TORKEL.92Sep4100904@isis.sics.se>, torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:

|> 
|>  >Do they ever send phil papers to real scientists to referee?
|> 
|>   This would make as much sense as sending scientific papers to
|> real philosophers to referee.

Come on guys, I know for a fact of two areas in which this *does*
happen.  One is (gasp!) the philosophy of physics (quantum mech.
in particular) where I know of philosophers who publish in
physics journals (and I'm sure some physicists publish in philosophy
journals).  The other is the philosophy of biology where perhaps
even more of this happens.  As one odd (and somewhat extreme)
example, consider the case of Mary Williams who couldn't seem to
get an appointment in a philosophy department.  She was (perhaps
still is) in something like the department of statistics at
U. of Maryland.  Yet over a long period of years she has been a
major contributer in the area of philosophy of biology in both
philosophy and biology journals.
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