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I will be leaving as a moderator
I will be leaving as a moderator as soon as SE-the-company reacts to my request.
The immediate reason for this decision is a network-wide discussion; see this MSE thread for context. But for several ...
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Friends, we are not philosophers
I wanted to try to make something of a positive statement about our definition and scope, since admittedly it can be somewhat difficult to get your arms around. It was certainly difficult enough for ...
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How can we get mathematical formatting on Philosophy Stack Exchange?
I think Philosophy.SE ought to have LateX availability in text input, because there are going to be a lot of formal logic questions. How can we get LateX, or a comparable math typesetting feature, on ...
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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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Congratulations, Philosophy is graduating!
It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Philosophy met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that ...
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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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Professional philosophers on Philosophy SE
I have a feeling there is lack of professional - academics - philosophers on this web site. Is anything being done to invite those people to use this web site?
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Can we modify the site's short description?
At http://stackexchange.com/sites, the short description under Philosophy is "Q&A for those interested in logical reasoning". I think this is somewhat misleading and diverts potential traffic away ...
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Philosophy Topic of the Week: Plato!
NOTE: The weekly challenges are suspended until further notice (probably at least until the new year.) You can see the rules and outstanding list of thinkers below. Please feel free to continue to ...
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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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An Easy Guide to Earning Downovtes
I would like to suggest forming an easy guide to earning downvotes.
I'm not super familiar with meta, but I'll give one answer and hopefully others have some too.
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Is this site dying?
OK so the title is obviously way too serious, but hear me out.
I've joined Phil.SE about 2 years ago, and had a whole lot of fun learning philosophy through it, with some very well-educated and fun ...
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Are we allowed to express our own opinions?
Wikipedia has a fairly strict policy requiring all articles to be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV). In fact, this is one of the five fundamental principles of their site:
Wikipedia is ...
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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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