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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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Changing the Gödel-tag
Although the name is sometimes written without the umlaut as Godel , proper German orthography is to write it Goedel if the dots are omitted.
Wikipedia
Assuming that [tag:gödel] doesn't work, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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One-boxing for the SEP in our chat?
SEP doesn't seem to have an API, so presumably the integration would be somewhat 'messy' (involve scraping the page) -- but this would be a really nice-to-have feature in our stack's chat space. A few ...
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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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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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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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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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Introducing Philosophy.SE University Ambassadors Program: calling students and teachers
StackExchange is looking for students and teachers who might be interested in helping us kick off/formalize a university pizza ambassador-type program. Philosophy.StackExchange would like to sponsor ...
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Tag monitoring?
So I've been on a bit of a re-tagging kick lately. I've been mostly removing inappropriate tags, like the [logic] tag which people tend to apply to anything that even references an argument.
Now, I ...
