I just set up Sympoze to automatically import each article published in Analysis as it’s own separate scoop.
As with the blogroll posts, you must look under the Upcoming Tab. The articles don’t make the front page until users vote them up.
I’m going to do this for all of the major journals. It will save us users the trouble of having to submit the articles ourselves. The only thing the user has to do is vote up or down.
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I’m testing a bookmarklet feature for sympoze. I found a bit of code that should do the trick. I’m testing it out here. If it works, I’ll post about how to utilize it.
UPDATE: It works! I’ll post about how to utilize it in the next post.
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I just worked it out so that Sympoze will automatically import each post from the blogs I track in my philosophy blogroll and submit it as a scoop. All readers can now sift through all of the posts in my blog roll via Sympoze. Users can vote the blog posts up and have them promoted to the front page.
The automatically submitted post, do not automatically show up on the front page. Automatically submitted posts sit in upcoming post limbo until users vote them up.
Users: Make sure you check out the upcoming posts section to see if there is anything you think is worth promoting to the front page. If you like one of the posts enough to promote it to the front page - vote it up. Right now it’s set up so that three votes promotes a post to the front page.
I’ve already set up a bunch of accounts for people. If you’re interested in an account - send me an email. It’s quick and easy for me to do.
Also, if you think there is a philosophy blog that is worth putting in the blogroll so that it’s posts are submitted automatically to Sympoze - let me know
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I decided to start a social bookmarking/content ranking site like Digg or Reddit for philosophers.
Here’s the site. It’s called Sympoze.
It’s a kind of social network site that will help everyone find really great philosophy content online. The idea is simple: users submit links to philosophy content they like - blog posts, online papers, or journal articles. The rest of the community can vote up or down any entry that is submitted. Ideally, really great philosophy content gets promoted to the front page and it has the seal of approval from several professional philosophers.
The site is up and running, but I’m still testing out some of the features. The social bookmarking module and voting-up modules are working well - that’s the important part.
Also, there isn’t a lot of highly ranked content because that requires lots of users. The real joy of social bookmarking and community rated/promoted content doesn’t happen until there are lots of users submitting links to sites they like and giving all of the other users a chance to vote it up or down.
That’s the part I’d like to start testing out now. Accounts are open to anyone with a Ph.D. in philosophy or graduate students in philosophy. If you’re interested in an account just send me an email and I’ll take care of the rest.
Spread the word to any philosophers you think might be interested.
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In the previous post, I did an intuition check. Thanks to everyone who participated. If you haven’t recorded your intuition, here’s the poll in case you want to record it before you read the argument.
Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
I had the intuition that pleasure states must have temporal duration. Here’s an argument I’ve been kicking around.
The basic idea is that being in a state of pleasure requires being in certain experiential state. But an experiential state is an event, and since events require temporal duration - being in a state of pleasure requires temporal duration. I don’t strongly endorse this argument, but it’s interesting to think about. Let’s lay it numbered-premise form so we can flesh out the weakest links.
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I finally found the poll widget for wordpress that I think I’m going to like. I think it will be perfect for interactive intuition checks. Let’s test it out.
I’ve come across an argument in a paper. I’ll hold off on what the argument is - I don’t want to spoil your intuitions. A crucial step in the argument seems to hinge on whether or not pleasure can be had in a durationless moment or not. What are your intuitions?
Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
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I’ve been switching somethings around on this site. Here’s what’s new.
- I’ve cleaned up the right hand column - a lot. Philosophy BibTeXs and Journal Mashups are now in a new Resources Tab. The Journal Mashups also have a slightly different look. Let me know if you like the old way or this new way better.
- The biggest change is to my Philosophy Blogroll. The first change is that it has been moved from the left hand column to a newly created Philosophy Blogroll page. The other big change is that I can now have the most titles (plus the first 20 words or so) of the most recent posts in my blogroll posted automatically to the page. If you think there are worthwhile philosophy blogs that are not in the blogroll let me know.
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Matthew Mullins kicked off Week 3 in our Knowledge of God reading group over at Prosblogion. It’s a nice and neat summary Tooley’s response to Plantinga’s arguments in chapter 1. Keep in mind we’re reading the chapters out of order - so this is chapter 4.
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