The Symposium

8:41 PM

room topic changed to schrodinger: Is the chat dead or alive?

9:07 PM

Nice topic.

thanks

I am pretty sure that this site is going to completely fail, unfortunately

Unless we limit ourselves to the meta-discussion OF philosophy, as in the published works of those we can generally agree to call "philosophers"

I believe so as well.

It's too argumentative and subjective, in my opinion.

That isn't to say I think that's a good thing, I wish people would be more open to original philosophical inquiry, as I think Stack Exchange provides an interesting platform for rational discussion.

so at least 3 people are open to that, how many more do you need?

9:11 PM

Hmm?

nevermind

its only been open for an hour though, let's give it at least a day before pronouncing it dead

I think either site, one for DOING philosophy, and one for DISCUSSING philosophy, would be a boon to the web

I have not pronounced it dead yet, merely ...

I said "it will fail, unless..."

I've forgotten the word again. I wanted to use it on comment as well.

spectating might be the right word, but I don't think so. I feel like there's a better word.

9:13 PM

you don't think we could muster enough people engaging in original inquiry to sustain the site?

Q: Are questions independent of reference to philosophical literature on or off topic?

Does this community intend to support potentially original philosophical inquiry, or only discussion of previously published philosophies and philosophers? In short, are we going to do philosophy, or discuss philosophy? As an example, some philosophers have made reference to what may be consider...

discussion

SOMEONE needs to say "Yes", and SOMEONE needs to say "No"

And then we can all vote

Until then, a lot of potentially valid questions might be downvoted and closed

allright, now we can wait for someone to oppose me

There.

I argued the opposite, kind of.

And I have voted

9:20 PM

heh I have more badges for meta then I do for the real site

Did you really expect any different?

I didn't, as soon as I saw that lovely link to "meta.philosophy"

Oh boy oh boy

heh

Haha

it'd be amusing if all the discussion just happened on the meta site