Peer Review A Critical Inquiry

by Shatz, David

• ISBN13: 9780742514348
• ISBN10: 074251434X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

While much literature has sprouted on peer review, this is the first book-length, wide-ranging study that utilizes methods and resources of contemporary philosophy. It covers the tension between peer review and the liberal notion that truth emerges when ideas proliferate in the marketplace of ideas; arguments for and against blind review of submissions; the alleged conservatism of peer review; the anomalous nature of book reviewing; the status of non-peer-reviewed publications; and the future of peer review.

Author Biography

David Shatz is professor of philosophy at Yeshiva University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Peer Review and the Marketplace of Ideas	15	(20)
Bias and Anonymity in the Peer Review Process	35	(48)
Is Peer Review Inherently Conservative? Should It Be?	83	(26)
Peerless Review: The Strange Case of Book Reviews	109	(12)
What Should Count?	121	(18)
Where Do We Go from Here? Peer Review in the Age of the Internet	139	(106)
Supplementary Essays
Ethics and Manuscript Reviewing	165	(14)
Richard T. De George
Fred Woodward
Why Be My Colleague's Keeper? Moral Justifications for Peer Review	179	(12)
Joe Cain
Peer Review Practices of Psychological Journals: The Fate of Published Articles, Submitted Again	191	(24)
Douglas P. Peters
Stephen J. Ceci
No Bias, No Merit: The Case against Blind Submission	215	(16)
Stanley Fish
Fish on Blind Submission	231	(2)
Jeffrey Skoblow
Reply to Skoblow	233	(2)
Stanley Fish
The Invisible Hand of Peer Review	235	(10)
Stevan J. Harnad
Index	245	(4)
About the Author	249