Information about Blinding Submissions

Contributed Papers

Contributed papers submitted to the PSA 2008 Program Committee must be blinded prior to review. It is primarily the author's responsibility to blind papers. Even if you feel that most readers in your field could somehow infer that you are the author of the paper, the paper must still be blinded. The only exceptions are (occasionally) for papers that are explicitly replies to critiques of your own work. In that case, please contact the Program Committee Chair for advice about how to proceed.

Alan Richardson
Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia
1866 Main Mall – E370
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
CANADA
psa-2008@interchange.ubc.ca

To blind your paper, follow these guidelines.

• There is no need for a 'title page'. The first page of the paper should contain the title, immediately followed by the abstract, immediately followed by text of the paper. Your name should not appear on this page as the author.
• Generic references to 'I' or 'me' (or other first-person pronouns) are permitted, unless they appear in conjunction with evidence that would lead the reader to infer to whom the pronoun refers. The same guidelines apply to the use of the term 'author' to refer to 'the author of this paper'.

  Acceptable:

  • "In this paper, I will show that adaptationism is a grave sin."
  • "My argument in section 2 applies here as well."

  Not Acceptable:

  • "As I have argued elsewhere..."
         Correction: "As Jones (2001) has argued..."
  • "As I argue in (Jones 2001)."
        Correction: "As Jones (2001) argues."
  • "This argument is fleshed out in my (2001)."
         Correction: "Jones (2001) makes this argument in more detail."

• Check that the paper has no running headers or footers with your name
• Please remove all acknowledgements from the paper. You may replace them with "[acknowledgement suppressed for review]" if you wish.

Workshop and Symposium Proposals

No blinding is requried for Symposium or Workshop Proposals.

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