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• the career incentives for philosophers generally discourage spending time on public engagement. As a result, it is hard to both do very well in academic terms and do effective public engagement at the same time.
• having a professor at a respected university willing to comment on a topic is highly appealing for journalists at many magazines, blogs, radio shows, and podcasts. Thus, if you can comment engagingly on philosophical topics that are of interest to the public, and if you can become known within journalism, it seems possible to have considerable impa...
• Philosophers have much more autonomy than is typical in other professions.
• if you’re interested in x, you can probably work on “the philosophy of x.”
• you will likely end up engaging with arguments from most corners of the discipline even if your own research is highly specialised

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