sympoze

Sympoze is a fast and easy way for professional philosophers to find online philosophy content that they might enjoy.

How It Works
Professional philosophers collectively save, rate, and promote online content. Right now there are over 100 professional philosophers signed up using Sympoze.

The process starts with a Sympoze user who finds something online that they like (e.g, a blog post or a paper) and submits it to Sympoze.

Once a user submits a link, the rest of the Sympoze community can "digg" the content. Popular submissions will automatically be promoted to the front page so everyone (including non-users) can get regularly updated on which blog posts are the most popular with professional philosophers.

Since user accounts are limited to persons with graduate degrees in philosophy or who are enrolled in a philosophy graduate program, the popular stories reflect the opinions of professional philosophers - however, everyone will be able to view the content that philosophers vote up and down.

The number next to each story reflects the number of professional philosophers who have voted the story up (minus the number who have voted it down).

A Quick Guide To Sympoze
Sympoze is very easy to use. Thanks to John Basl, we now have A Quick Guide to Sympoze

Easy Submission and Voting
Submitting and voting up stories is now EVEN EASIER.

Join the Sympoze Community!
If you're a professional philosopher and you read philosophy blogs regularly, you should contact email Andrew Cullison [lastname] [at] [fredonia] [dot] [edu] OR go to the Contact Form to get an account.

Membership is only open to philosophers who have earned their Ph.D. or persons who are enrolled in a graduate program in philosophy. Please keep in mind that the goal of sympoze is to have the philosophy content online promoted by professional philosophers. To make exceptions here would be to deviate from the central aim of sympoze. Please keep in mind that not having an account only means that you cannot submit or vote on links. Anyone, whether they are a user or not, can view the submitted stories and rankings.

Contact
For questions, comments, or suggestions contact Andrew Cullison. The easiest way to contact me is to fill out our Contact Form.

Who Runs Sympoze
Andrew Cullison started Sympoze, and he currently maintains it as a service to the philosophical community. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Fredonia.

However, no one person controls what content shows up on Sympoze. What gets promoted on the site is determined collectively by the 100+ professional philosophers who have joined the community.

About the Name
It's derived from Symposium. Since a symposium was basically a party where philosophers would get together and share their ideas, I thought that something related to that name would be good. However, symposium.com and sympose.com were both taken. That's when it occurred to me to follow suit with the quirky Web 2.0 thing and use some weird misspelling of the desired word. It worked for the folks at Digg and Reddit. That's why we have "Sympoze" as the name for this site. (So, if you think to yourself,"He's misspelled "sympose"!" - please note that this was intentional.