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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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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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Subjective Questions: Deciding what we want as a community
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Greeting, fellow lovers of wisdom!
I apologize for the length, but this is an important topic that has come up repeatedly, one that has never been completely addressed, and I feel the ...
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How can we promote our apparent goal of getting well-sourced answers?
I've been away from Phil.SE for a while, aside from the occasional lurking, and I recently noticed something. There are (more than I remember) a large number of answers that don't attempt to provide ...
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How does quoting the opinions of other philosophers support a theory?
I read this today in a comment on someone else's question-answer:
'Stack Exchange is not a network for exchanging opinions, but rather factual information. This answer essentially isn't more than ...
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Subjective answers and questions stimulating subjectiveness
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I'm wondering how we should deal with clearly very subjective answers. An example. Most of the time, you can't really blame the answerer: the question asks for an ...
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Users acting as authorities
I participate in several SE sites, and nowhere have I seen so many users acting as authorities (prescribing to other users what they should do, discussing questions/answers from the point of view of ...
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How to determine in which cases is it strictly necessary to add citations to reliable sources that support my assertions?
This might be considered as a further elaboration on my previous question Users acting as authorities, in the sense that, similarly to that question, I want to clarify for myself some existing nowhere ...
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How can we stop the trolls?
It seems pretty obvious that certain users are voting down questions etc. based on personal opinion and lack of perspective - i.e. dislike of certain other posters.
How can we stop this, given the ...
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Must every answer contain a source? Which kind of sources are accepted and why? [duplicate]
On this answer, I received a comment from virmaior that it should be "sourced in philosophy (roughly as defined in academic philosophy)".
Other answers involving the subjectivity of morality were ...
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