Talk:Outline of philosophy

message: Briefly mentioning epistemology in the gloss for "philosophy of space and time" as a sub-branch of metaphysics... is that all? It's not going to get broken out as a line item?   --Tmusgrove 3 June 2018
Yes, I agree. Its a recognised important sector of philosophy.
TonyClarke (talk) 08:09, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Epistemology deserves its own section, no? 

message: The following comment was copied from the Template:Philosophy navigation's talk page":  
"Buridan has been removing Ayn Rand, her philosophy Objectivism, and her books from various philosophy lists around Wikipedia. He has been rather forceful wherever he's done this. See List of basic philosophy topics, List of philosophers born in the twentieth century, Template:Philosophy topics, Timeline of Western philosophers, and List of publications in philosophy (he removed her books from the list), to name a few."  That comment was left by The Transhumanist.  Steve 18:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Buridan (on this page).  Rand does not belong here.  Neither she nor her philosophy is a fundamental topic in philosophy; she is only a very, very fringe figure. KSchutte 19:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Those items have been on the list since November of 2005.  Their removal lacks consensus.  Both Steve Wolfer and I oppose deletion of these two items.    The Transhumanist  02:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Buridan on an anti-Rand crusade? 

message: Is there a name for the following category of things?
* A philosophy
* Philosophical movement
* Philosophical theory
* Philosophical school
* Philosophical methodology
* Philosophical doctrine
* Philosophical principle
* Philosophical tradition
Etc.
What are they?
  The Transhumanist  10:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For the time being, I've resorted to calling them "philosophy components".  --TT 17:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What are these things called? 

message: If there's a better way to organize/arrange the topics in the basic concepts section than alphabetically, I'm all for it.   The Transhumanist  10:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: I don't think there's any quick way to figure out what "basic" philosophy questions are, but the list up presently seems like a good start. There isn't any systematic way of taxonomizing the questions, so far as I understand. There may be resources dedicated to this somewhere, but in the meantime we might settle for whatever is presented in mainstream sources and articles (esp. tertiary sources, like encyclopedia entries). { Ben S. Nelson } Lucidish 15:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philosophy questions 

message: I added to the lede paragraph, as a very new contributor to wikipedia and to the Philosophy Project, I know that some of my edits may lack proper style, and some need links, or checking, by more experienced editors. Thankyou, and I will be trying to update my skills personally, and seek guidance from the helpdesk and Philosophy contributors who may prove kind enough to offer assistance to me. Any advice or comments, please I would appreciate on the Talkpage, or to me (private on Talk:) -User:Newbyguesses/Talk. &mdash Newbyguesses 00:39, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The following link was removed from the article —Philosophy play-readings at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Socrates, Hume, Bentham) — There could be some interest in this link; though it doesn't fit this List of... article. -Newbyguesses 15:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: slightly new lead

message: Anyone who has read Camus knows that he is not an Existentialist. He denied this many times. If he must be categorized, it would be under a separate heading "Absurdism". The chart at this subject (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism) may be helpful. Also Pessimism is but a component and precurser to the more over-arching Nihilism. ~~Nemo Senki~~
:It's rather typical of philosophers to frown upon being categorized. It's true that he didn't like the label, but I don't think it's unreasonable to call Camus an Existentialist (there is some minor divergence, but no categorization is perfect). That said, if you feel strongly about it I'd say just remove him from the list. I think you're right that Absurdism would be a somewhat better label, but as this is a basic topics page I don't think we should add a new Absurdism category. — xDanielx T/C\R 03:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Camus/Existentialism 

message: See the proposal at the Village pump
The Transhumanist 09:23, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to 

message: The opening sentence - 
"Philosophy is an ongoing discussion about knowledge; it is a broad field of inquiry in which the definition of knowledge itself is one of the subjects investigated."
- is a good description of epistemology, but not such a great description of philosophy. I admit though that this is a hard one to nail down: what counts as "philosophy" is itself a philosophical issue.70.55.55.235 (talk) 00:47, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening sentence 

message: Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Wikipedia:Outlines.
Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.
The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guidelines for outlines 

message: Please add some relevant links to the history section.
Links can be found in the "History of" article for this subject, in the "History of" category for this subject, or in the corresponding navigation templates.  Or you could search for topics on Google - most topics turn blue when added to Wikipedia as internal links.
The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "History of" section needs links! 

message: There was an RfC to delete this and all other outlines. The result was keep (discussion is archived here). RockMagnetist (talk) 15:48, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Result of RfC 

message: "Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation.  The Transhumanist 00:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines 

message: Why exactly are there two sections here for what amounts to the same thing? I'm just checking here whether I'm being an idiot or not before I go ahead and merge the two. Alduin2000 (talk) 22:08, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fields and branches 

message: is "core areas" just an introduction to "fields"? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 14:21, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  core areas and fields 

message: -Change first sentence from: Philosophy – study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
-Change first sentence to: Philosophy – study of "fundamental-interactions" concerning "subjects" such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, language, observation, science and math.
:The phrase "fundamental interactions" is more inclusive-comprehensive and modern as is also "subjects". A Wikipedia reference to Marcus Aurelius : "Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them." Arnlodg (talk) 18:16, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose: Unsourced, and will be misleading for readers because fundamental interactions is a technical term used in particle physics. --ChetvornoTALK 00:03, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change first sentence