In many scientific fields, co-authorship is distributed liberally among members of a lab, collaborators, advisers and students, etc. In philosophy, many papers have a single author but in a footnote acknowledge the contributions of many people (and frequently many of these are famous scholars).
Why is this? Should philosophy adopt broader norms for what constitutes co-authorship?
Who should count as a co-author on a paper?
Who should count as a co-author on a paper?
Who should count as a co-author on a paper?
In many scientific fields, co-authorship is distributed liberally among members of a lab, collaborators, advisers and students, etc. In philosophy, many papers have a single author but in a footnote acknowledge the contributions of many people (and frequently many of these are famous scholars).
Why is this? Should philosophy adopt broader norms for what constitutes co-authorship?