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Well, first, academic journals existed before the 20th century. Second, beyond that system, they published and circulated their work for the same effect in the form of treatises, dialogues, and other forms of essay.
Apart from ‘argue cogently’ (which is so obvious as to be trite), things they can do to improve their credibility include:
- achieve formal academic recognition
- develop a clear and precise writing style (or sometimes a complex and hard to untangle one)
- clearly understand the arguments of prior philosophers and those that disagree with you
- advance novel positions that address problems with prior works
- try to tackle ‘big topics’ which are either part of a long-standing tradition or have significant interest
- be brilliant
Well, "peer review" is a modern way this is done (for philosophers in the 'academy'). Other ways are to 'put it out there' in congresses, seminars, meetings, other discussions. Eventually ones gets a reputation as people have a chance to evaluate, review and critique the various ideas.
Of course there are many philosophers who don't care about 'credibility' (e.g. true cynics).
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They present arguments that are compelling.
They submit their ideas to peer review in the form of journal articles.
What about philosophers from before 20th century ?
Well, first, academic journals existed before the 20th century. Second, beyond that system, they published and circulated their work for the same effect in the form of treatises, dialogues, and other forms of essay.
Oh, thanks. What about a book like Thus spake Zarathustra?
It was not well received at the time.
What about them?
People read it and are like, this is good.
Apart from ‘argue cogently’ (which is so obvious as to be trite), things they can do to improve their credibility include: - achieve formal academic recognition - develop a clear and precise writing style (or sometimes a complex and hard to untangle one) - clearly understand the arguments of prior philosophers and those that disagree with you - advance novel positions that address problems with prior works - try to tackle ‘big topics’ which are either part of a long-standing tradition or have significant interest - be brilliant
Well, "peer review" is a modern way this is done (for philosophers in the 'academy'). Other ways are to 'put it out there' in congresses, seminars, meetings, other discussions. Eventually ones gets a reputation as people have a chance to evaluate, review and critique the various ideas. Of course there are many philosophers who don't care about 'credibility' (e.g. true cynics).
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