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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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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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FAQ for Philosophy.SE
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Is Philosophy SE being trolled, and why exactly aren't these questions closed?
So I went onto Philosophy SE main looking for good substantive questions, and Instead I find:
Is Gravity The Fundamental force?
The question seems like an obvious joke, so I said, and scrolled down....
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Philosophy's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
They'll be replacing the pro tempore crew shortly — please thank everyone ...
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We want hats, right?
SE is planning to run another "dash for hats!"-style promotion this year, but this time for all the sites. Here's some example hats from last year:
Now, it's totally opt-in, both on a per-site and ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Philosophy's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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Scope of the tag "logic"
In the last 24 hours, several have had the tag "logic" removed from them.
There seems to be a "logic" about this, but I'm not sure I follow it in every case.
First, several where I agree:
Is this a ...
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Happy holidays, Philosophy!
Happy holidays, everyone!
Well, it's been a long and wonderful year! I just wanted to say that I'm really thankful for the community here, and that I continue to be excited to be part of it as it ...
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Site design and logo — Draft
👋 I'm Simon, a designer at Stack Overflow and I've been working on designing a theme for this community!
Your site design
As mentioned in our first post - below you'll find the site design I came up ...
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Should we have a chat box linking to the Symposium?
Many custom pages like SciFi & Fantasy have chatrooms permanently linked directly in their sidebar.
As not many of you will remember, we actually do have a general chatroom in philosophy as well: ...
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Obviously punitive voting with no explanations
This is the convergence of two different issues -- excessive, patterned downvoting is the primary issue. But that issue could be resolved if we knew what the motivation behind the downvotes was.
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Community blog?
We've now acquired a pretty solid group of 'avid users' of the site and I wanted to take a temperature check around the possibility people might be interested in contributing to a community blog, ...
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Have we achieved Elite Status on Philosophy.SE today?
Have we acheived 'leet status here on Philosophy.SE?
I have as evidence:
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APIs, Scripts, Browser Add-Ons, and PhilSE Backend
2020-11-07: Since asking, I've found a link to https://stackapps.com/ in another post.
Arrrrgh,
Unfurling of Flag
In the spirit of shared ownership, I'm seizing this ghost ship (read inactive post) to ...
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Merge "knowledge" and "epistemology" tags?
What is the consensus on merging or symlinking knowledge and epistemology? Are there any reasons why we should need both tags?
Although I was in favour of retaining epistemology at first (probably ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Can we please get math notation, once and for all?
I hope I don’t need to make a persuasive case for this, but I will if requested.
Let’s get math notation like math.stackexchange has. Immediately.
(It is like drawing a picture with a cast on, trying ...
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How is it most appropriate to credit a post of the philosophy stack-exchange?
How to credit a post of the philosophy stack-exchange?
I ask this question since in a homework essay I submitted I provided in the reference a link to a post of the user @Conifold that I found ...
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'Missing context' close reason: remove 'other details'?
We currently have a close reason that was originally intended for zero-effort homework and now reads:
This question is missing context or other details. Please improve the question by providing ...
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Sharing interesting information?
I was thinking about sharing interesting information (The philpaper survey came to my mind) concerning philosophy, and whether it is in the scope of this site and if so, where the right place would be ...
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Why so little voting?
I see many questions and answers with a vote score of zero, even after years. (I see this on other SE sites also.) Sometimes I see -1 scores, so I know people are downvoting. But why don't they vote ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Help Us Create an Anthropology/Sociology SE!
If any of you would be interested in a Anthropology/Sociology SE please check out the proposal on Area51.
It would be great if any of you could post some example questions or critique the ones that ...
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Can questions with "Quantum", "Entanglement", "Wave function" and "Superposition" go straight to a moderator for review?
I'm noticing that questions that involve lots of QM jargon tend to also be very poor and subjective, and seem to be adding to the overall noise level on the site. Is there a way that such questions ...
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Post of Gratitude
Knowing the frequency and quantity of my questions, I thought to communicate my continued thanks for everyone who has aided and educated me, and for this SE's kind, welcoming attitude (that other SE ...
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Can we add options to closing questions as off-topic when the question belongs on another SE site besides our own Meta?
Many questions asked on Phil SE seem to be better fits for other SE sites, e.g. Math, Physics, Biology, Cognitive Sciences, History, Law, Skeptics, sometimes even Sci-Fi/Fantasy or Worldbuilding. ...
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What would you like to see in a Philosophy.SE site theme?
Not that I think graduation is on the immediate horizon, but I thought it might not be the worst idea to start a conversation about interesting design elements for a post-graduation theme. Also ...
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Introducing the Stack Exchange Research Support and Fellowship Program
The mission of Stack Exchange is to make the internet a better place to get expert answers to your questions. The Stack Exchange Fellowship Program aims to support students conducting research in ...
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