Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy/Mind/Archives

message: Just following up on Kripkenstein's invite to join the project.  I've been only sporadically active on Wikipedia lately, and am taking my first philosophy of mind class this semester, but I'll try to put in as much as I can.  138.16.37.249 03:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It'd be best if you logged in and got a userpage in case there is any need for interminable debates  or discussion and so on. (; --Lacatosias 08:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: n00b

message: Could people take a look at the discussion I've started on what to do with the page on Physicalism? Thomas Ash 11:16, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Physicalism page: attention needed

message: Hello people. I'd like to propose a task for anyone who has a good grasp of German language and some time on their hands. I've noticed that the German article de:Philosophie des Geistes is on a higher level of excelency than our English article (whose lenght is due to an ugly listing of all philosophy of mind-related people). So if anyone is willing, translating good sections from the German article would be interesting. Porcher 19:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it might indeed be helpful (I can't see why it would be harmful at any rate) but I know nothing of German. I will, however, look over the article and see what I ideas I can borrow in terms of formatting and I will definitely cut out most, if not all, of the section containing lists of philosophers of mind (this should be ib either a seperate article of lists or perhaps listed on this page). Finally, if nothing else, the article can be listed in pages for translation into English in odrer to get the maximum attention from experienced German-to-English translators. --Lacatosias 08:36, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. as I'm extremely busy just at the moment, I will just list it on artciles needing attention and on the translation page for the time being.--Lacatosias 08:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've listed it at Wikipedia:German-English_translation_requests#Philosophy the page is exteremely busy, however, and it might be  a good idea for others who support this propoal to sign under the section supported so as to focus more attention on it.--Lacatosias 09:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If the German article is a Features Artcile (it says somethihng like "excellent article has been identified"  on the bottom so I suspest that's the same thing) than it can be listed on the top of the talk page for the philosophy of mind article as wll. In any case, I've gotten some excellent clues on the perfects structure to to completely overhaul the current version. But now I have to get off. If your in the US or thereabouts, I'm about 6 to 9 hours ahead of you. So anyone who wants to contact meu should leave a message on my talk page or here...--Lacatosias 19:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Well, that was a great deal easier than I expected, since most of the real work had already been done for us. (; But the portal looks pretty decent. Hopefully, people will find it useful. --Lacatosias 14:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks really good! Good thinking, guys. Porcher 17:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Philosophy of mind]] main article 

message: Collaboration seems to be lacking thoughout the whole Philosophy project. I don't know where to begin to deal with this probem--Lacatosias 19:54, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's true. It seems like a lot of work to a few people. -- Kripkenstein 15:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ah, don't take my comments too literally. I often use this technique of whining to "spronare" (or push people , as we say in Italian) into putting more effort into things. But the real problem, if you want my honest opinion, seems to be that there are plenty of people but they are all spread out thinly, concentrating on one or two articles almost as if they own them. Everyone is off in their own world (including myslef!!) and there is no effort to focus on getting four or five really solid artciles. Insead there are two separet artciles, for example, on philosphy of mind and the mind-body problem. Someone will probably want to divide it up futher into the mind problem and the body problem eventually. Then we will have Dennett's mind, Jospeh LeDouxs' brain, etc, etc,.. It could be a misinterpreation because I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, but it seems like there's no real project in the Philosophy project but just a mishmash of overlapping and disjointed efforts. But, then, it might just be the nature of philosophy which is so wide-open and subjective (in the sense of opinionated) whereas the math and science artciles are just a matter of describing objective facts. Anyway, I'm rambling off.--Lacatosias 15:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration seems to be lacking 

message: I just did a rewrite of the Intentional stance article and would like feedback.  Be merciless. Alienus 18:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah hah! I, at any rate, can't look at it right now. It's getting late over here  and it's time to get off this damned machine. Goodnight.--Lacatosias 18:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It can wait a day. Granted, your willingness to sleep without doing this work is a clear indication of your complete and utter lack of dedication, so I must judge you unfavorably.  Maybe I could compare you to Hitler or something; that's a popular way to knock people around here. :-) Alienus 18:56, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need for review and cleanup 

message: As some of you may have noticed, I have replaced the previous version of the artcile philosphy of mind with a new version. I then delted the now-redundant article mind-body problem and redirected it to philosophy of mind. Iìm beginning to get some negative feedback from...certain quaters. I would appreciate it if you folks could back me up on this.--Lacatosias 17:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calling fellow members 

message: There is an important voting process under way on the philosophy of mind talk page. Please vote. --Lacatosias 18:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vote 

message: Some of you who have an interest in the subject may wish to take a look at the recent history of changes to consciousness and Mind.  I'll let you come to your own conclusions about what's necessary. Alienus 07:19, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes on [[Consciousness]] and [[Mind]] 

message: We really brought the "neutral monism" article up to near-professional standards. I'm going to have it listed as an FA candidate!! Good work  (D..--Lacatosias 10:54, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congratulations fellows!! 

message: So who's working on what? Is anybody (beside myself) working on anything in philosophy of mind? Is this project still active or should I just shut it down?--Lacatosias 09:17, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello lads!! 

message: There's an interesting debate/discussion going on over at talk:dualism (philosophy of mind 
that might interest some of the folks involved in  the neuro, psych and philosophy of mind fields. I don't think  a few studies on near death experiecnce are relevant. Am I being too stringent and POV or what? SPEAK UP!!! Basically, I think it's all nonsense. But I would like to hear from others.--Lacatosias 08:14, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion on "scientific" dualism

message: Hello! We at the Work via WikiProjects team for Wikipedia 1.0 would like you to identify the "key articles" from your project that should be included in offline releases of Wikipedia based on their importance, regardless of quality. We will use that information to assess which articles should be nominated for Version 1.0 (not yet open) and later versions.  Hopefully it will also help you identify which articles are the most important for the project to work on. As well, please add to your Philosophy/Religion WikiProject article table any articles of high quality. If you are interested in developing a worklist such as this one for your WikiProject, or having a bot generate a worklist automatically for you, please contact us.  Please feel free to post your suggestions right here.  Thanks! Walkerma 05:57, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Many thanks - I'll add these into the table in the next few days.  Please edit them there as you see fit.  Cheers, Walkerma 06:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've placed these into this table, please update/assess as you wish.  I put Philosophy of Mind as Top-Importance (being the project title), and all others as "High-Importance".  If others should be Top as well, please edit the table.  Many thanks for your help! Walkerma 04:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Key articles for Wikipedia 1.0 

message: I compared the English :Category:Philosophers of mind and the German :de:Kategorie:Philosophie des Geistes (Vertreter). At the the German Wikipedia are some important historical philosophers like Descartes, Malebranche, Leibniz, Spinoza... while the English Wikipedia categorized just contemporary philosophers as "Philosophers of mind". I'm not sure which is the better solution, what do you think? --Davidlud 20:21, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably no one had thought about it or something. Certainly Descartes, Leibniz, and so on should be in the category. --Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 07:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: Would someone from the project be able to make a new template for philosophy of mind articles? One with assessment fields would be great - I'm looking for something suitable for assessing qualia. Thanks, Richard001 02:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm....it looks much improved since the last time I saw it. Still needs a great deal more referencing and prosification of all those lists, etc.. Looks like B, B- category, IMO, on a quick glance.--Francesco Franco 17:05, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Template for article talk pages

message: Hi I wish to become a member of this project. Could someone please tell me what I need to do? And is there a userbox for it? Thanks Amit@Talk 16:34, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why in hell? No,just kidding. You just go ahead and edit phi articles. On the other side of this page, there is a template code for the userbox and so on. --Francesco Franco 17:00, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to become a member? 

message: Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me).
*List of basic thinking-related topics
This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 19:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice of List articles 

message: See Request for comment on the inclusion of McGrew's blog. Tim Vickers (talk) 01:57, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: RfC on including personal blog in the article on [[intelligence]]