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I just wanted some good philosophy to read with breakfast. While there are plenty of places to read about philosophy for free, most are oversaturated or useless. Contextless Stoicism, misinterpreted Plato, and enough Nietzsche quotes pasted over AI generated backgrounds to last a lifetime, none of it was quite what I wanted. What I wanted was what I had gotten into Philosophy for: long-running debates between great thinkers, questions without clear answers, critically analysing everything and anything. Furthermore, I wanted what had kept me interested in philosophy for so long. I was fortunate enough to be able to study philosophy at university, and that allowed me to experience contemporary philosophy: the debates that are still going, the questions that haven't been answered, and frankly, what I think is the most fun to learn.
Sadly, I found the places that brought this contemporary philosophy together were not as fun as the ideas are. Either too long, or too specialised, or hidden behind a paywall, I was out of luck. So I wrote a (very) simple program that found links to papers that had been published recently around the internet, these links got dumped into a text file for me to go through. Then, I made the program get the titles and abstracts of the papers, I upgraded the font, I made it format nicely, and after a few late nights of tweaking, I got what is now the Daily News part of this website. While this scratched an itch, it didn't quite do what I wanted.
It was nice to have a whole stack of articles, finding interesting ideas and thinkers I wouldn't have found otherwise, but it was still a lot of work and I knew this wasn't the best solution for everyone out there. So, I spoke to the few people I knew who were studying or had studied philosophy, and of those that were willing to give me their time, we work on our Newsletter and Dictionary together. After quite a few more late nights and lots and lots of tinkering and tweaking I built the admin side of this website, where our team of editors come together, research, review and write content for this website.
As a team, we are all still working out the kinks, but we hope to bring everyone the kind of content I wanted to find, and build a community of interested people together. I am excited to be working behind the scenes on all sorts of things that will be available in the future. If you have any questions for me, please get in touch at admin@dailysocratic.com
- Sam
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“Artificial Intelligence” is a tool. While we trust our team to make the decisions that best suit them and their workflow (which could include uses of Large Language Models), we hold each editor to a certain standard. They should never recommend a source they haven’t read themselves, nor pass off any writing which has been done by AI. We are making a community and a resource for humans.
We believe philosophy should be open to anyone who wants to study it. While some future content may have to be paid for (for example, physical media), currently, all content is free to anyone. Our editors make sure anything they write is only as complicated as it needs to be, not assuming knowledge that isn’t reasonable. If anything doesn’t make sense, or anything we’ve done makes philosophy feel inaccessible, please get in touch with us.
If you find a mistake, or a hole in anything we write, let us know. We pride ourselves on taking constructive feedback in our stride. Also, everything will be referenced, from our Socratic Notes entries, to the pictures we use on our Instagram. Nothing will be passed off as our work, unless it is.
Defining philosophy isn’t easy (unsurprisingly philosophers have been arguing about this for years), but we tend to take anything published in academic philosophy journals as fair game. Like art and pornography, it isn’t easy to define what makes something philosophy, you just know it when you see it.
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