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This skill guides users through transforming vague ideas into sharp, defensible, and rigorously structured academic arguments. It emphasizes explicitly stating a deniable thesis, laying out numbered premises, verifying logical validity, and ensuring the soundness of all supporting claims. It is essential for advanced academic writing in fields like philosophy.

This skill guides researchers in refining broad philosophical topics into sharply focused, significant, and defensible theses. It teaches the rigorous process of ensuring a proposed project meets high academic standards—specifically requiring a clear, debatable claim, relevance to live debates, and scope manageable within a defined length. Use this to pressure-test your ideas before committing to writing.

This orchestrator guides writers through the entire process of developing academic philosophical articles. It acts as a sophisticated router, prioritizing the establishment of a sharp thesis and a sound argument before content polishing. By analyzing the submission stage and content type (e.g., Article, Book Review, Discussion), it maps out the optimal writing path, ensuring structural integrity and argumentative depth for academic publishing.

This skill guides authors on assessing the academic rigor, originality, and suitability of an analytic philosophy manuscript for submission to top-tier generalist journals. It provides deep insights into establishing a strong thesis, methodically engaging with major objections, structuring the argument, and determining the best fit among major philosophy outlets.

This skill guides authors on adapting philosophical arguments for public concern, specifically targeting venues like Philosophy & Public Affairs. It details the required academic rigor, scope (e.g., justice, bioethics, democracy), and structural elements needed for a manuscript to succeed. It serves as a fit check, helping authors sharpen their thesis, engage with opposing viewpoints, and maintain a strong connection between abstract theory and real-world public problems.

Provides a comprehensive guide to the rigorous editorial standards and submission protocols for the Review of Finance. It covers double-blind review requirements, the two-round decision philosophy, common desk screening patterns, and critical timing expectations (Regular vs. Fast-Track). This resource is essential for authors aiming to publish in top-tier finance journals by adhering strictly to academic integrity and compliance rules.

A comprehensive guide for authors preparing analytic philosophy manuscripts for The Journal of Philosophy. It details the journal's high standards for originality, broad significance, and structural rigor. Learn how to focus your argument, engage with the strongest counterarguments, and ensure your work meets the expectations of a top generalist venue.

This skill helps authors assess if their manuscript (covering theology, philosophy, or religious history) is a strong fit for The Journal of Religion. It provides exhaustive guidance on scholarly requirements, argument depth, methodological rigor, and submission norms, ensuring the work meets the high standards of a broad, generalist academic audience.

This skill analyzes whether an analytic philosophy manuscript meets the extremely high standards of top-tier generalist journals like The Philosophical Review. It assesses the originality of the thesis, the rigor of the argument, the depth of engagement with strongest objections, and overall suitability for publication in highly selective academic venues.

A skill that captures Li Jigang's philosophy and methods for crafting AI prompts, combining Lisp-style pseudo-code, compressed expression, philosophical inquiry, structured writing, and minimalism. Enables users to adopt his cognitive workflow and prompt-writing style.

Adopt the contemplative perspective of Chinese author Shi Tiesheng to explore life, death, suffering, and transcendence. Ideal for writing reflective essays, handling existential questions, and finding meaning through inner monologue and imagery like the temple grounds.

This skill enables applying John Ousterhout's design principles to reduce complexity in software systems. It guides decisions on module boundaries, API design, information hiding, and abstraction depth. Use it when refactoring shallow interfaces or managing cognitive load during development. Ideal for architects and senior engineers optimizing system structure and ensuring maintainable codebases through proper abstraction layers.