if you, Isaac, or anyone wants to help increase quality, please flag discussions you feel are unworthy of the place. — Baden
(1) users can selectively respond and read, like the under used "following" posters option in profiles — fdrake
(2) people's interest in philosophy usually starts long before researching much of it, and it's a valuable space for learning for that user type — fdrake
(3) less restricted posting stimulates discussion — fdrake
(4) increasing content standard to make the place more attractive to seasoned academics would simultaneously reduce our attractiveness for having a large and relatively high standard (for the internet) of discussion. — fdrake
Not sure I get this either. Are you saying that increasing standards would reduce involvement to a level that would be more detrimental than the improvement in the first place? — Isaac
It is then clear to see who the culprits are and they’ll eventually be ignored, smarten up, and/or weed out other such people so we can readily ignore them too. — I like sushi
So... Would it be possible, and desirable, to create a section/category for discussing actual papers or works of philosophy (or perhaps even papers on closely related topics)? — Isaac
Check the section called "Learning Centre". — Metaphysician Undercover
All it takes is for a few people to dedicate their effort and time. There have been lots of suggestions for reading groups over the past few months, mainly by Wallows, but nothing has come of them. — jamalrob
There's been a good Philosophical Investigations reading group within the last while. We never finished the book, though. — fdrake
Making this about reading only academic papers from other people, would take any personal creative element out of the mix. — schopenhauer1
If we want to keep threads like that going it would be useful to know why they stopped wouldn't it? — Isaac
If we want to keep threads like that going it would be useful to know why they stopped wouldn't it? — Isaac
Two things. Firstly, I'm not talking about making anything 'only' about academic papers, I was only suggesting a category dedicated to it. — Isaac
Secondly, I think the sort of personal creative element you're talking about here just doesn't lend itself very well to forum discussion. You may well have a perfectly lovely idea about the way the world is (or should be) but there it will stop. Discussion either goes to "oh that's nice", or "I don't think so" (often less pleasantly put).
Any matter where there's real depth to be gotten into, 99% if the time someone's already written about it. — Isaac
Yeah, I took part in that. It was quite good in places, but I'm thinking here about the reasons why such a promising start seemed to fade out. The people involved didn't just stop posting, so it's not a matter of their having trouble setting the time aside. — Isaac
Try to publish on academia.edu or arxiv.org depending on the content type. You're more likely to be able to upload philosophy things on academia.edu than otherwise. arxiv.org has limited peer review and generally requires technical/scientific content. — fdrake
Personally, I don't mind just reading people's own ideas on issues. Most times, I disagree with academic philosophers despite the fancy logic tables and formalized conceptualizations they provide. — schopenhauer1
Dr. Prof. Pigliucci perhaps expected other types of questions, questions that probed and sought true enlightenment. He may have been taken aback by the verbosity and overstylization of some of the questions. A little less overt politeness and adoration also may have been in order... he did not come here, and he expected others also to not come here to hear praising of Caesar, but to have Caesar speak himself. — god must be atheist
I also have papers that have my own ideas, and I would really like to hear others' criticism of it and to defend it. But how do I get over the anonymity barrier? I want the ideas associated with my real person, but here we are anynomized. Any suggestions? — god must be atheist
That's the problem with the approach that many here have to philosophy, they are not looking for the truth, rather they are looking for material to support what they already believe. So when articles of philosophy approach the truth, and it is not what these people already believe, they tend to turn away. — Metaphysician Undercover
But, whether reasonably or not, I baulk at the effort of posting such work here only to have it flooded with a series of banal one-liners barely related to the subject... or that God did it... or some other variation on the ever-popular delusion that because a thing seems that way to someone it must therefore be the case. — Isaac
The truth is massively overrated. — Isaac
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