Good news! My truer paper got accepted to the special BSPC edition of Philosophical Studies.
Bad news! Because of space considerations, it has to be trimmed back to the length it was in August. The current bloated version deals with some good objections that Liz and Cian and Jonathan and, especially, Gabriel made at BSPC. Now I’ll have to trim away to get my replies to their good objections in.
Good news! The referees for the paper wrote very helpful comments on, among other things, just where the paper should be shortened, so I at least have an idea on what to do here. The value of good referees in philosophy can hardly be over-stated, and I’m always grateful for their existence. (And no, I’m not saying they were good referees just because they accepted the paper.)
Anyway, time to work on revising that paper. (And updating the CV!)