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Should this site be restricted to academic answers only?
If this site is intended for discussion of philosophy, then perhaps it would be appropriate to strive for academic answers to questions, even when the questions are not academic themselves. However, ...
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Friends, what are the criteria for marking answers as correct?
The Stack Exchange network suggests, as one of the criteria to determine the health of a beta site, that you should have answers accepted with a good frequency.
I worry that this may not happen much ...
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Can we change the "Subjective and Argumentative" close reason to "Not Constructive"?
Several people, both in the formative phase of this site and more recently, have expressed varying degrees of confusion, consternation, and irony over the fact that one of our close reasons is labeled ...
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What is considered off topic?
What is one domain or example question that you consider to be off topic? (Please post just one per answer.)
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Should questions be closed in cases other than duplication?
There are four non-duplication-related reasons to suggest closure of a question:
off topic
subjective and argumentative
not a real question
too localized
Should questions ever be closed for any of ...
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Should religious discussions or those about God be allowed on Philosophy?
It seems that many people are trying to close my question (What is good and what is evil?) that makes explicit mention of God.
For example, one of the commenters says:
I think this question is ...
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Should we restrict this site to academic questions only, or target a more casual audience?
One of the issues that other Stack Exchange sites (such as Mathematics and Computer Science) have faced in defining the scope of their site is whether to allow questions from the casual reader/...
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Vote early, Vote often
I would like to echo a post that Scott Morrison made on Meta.Tex.SE:
I'm a moderator from MathOverflow, and this "question" is actually unsolicited advice, based on our experience from the initial ...
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Is this site for doing philosophy or discussing philosophy? [duplicate]
Does this community intend to support and engage in potentially original philosophical inquiry, or are we going to limit ourselves to discussing previously published philosophies and/or philosophers?
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How should questions expecting truth values be handled?
One of the early questions on this site asked whether humans have souls:
Do humans have souls?
I lean towards Dan Dennett's views on souls in which humans don't have a soul that lasts forever. It ...
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