Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy of Mind
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Welcome to WikiProject Philosophy of Mind, a subproject of WikiProject Philosophy.
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[edit] Scope and Goals
The focus of WPPM will be to work as diligently as is humanly possible to create professional-quality, thoroughly documented, and encyclopedic articles on the philosophy of mind and to integrate them as much as possible with work from all branches of the cognitive sciences: experimental psychology, neurosciences, linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, anthropology, ethology etc.
Philosophy of mind is a particularly challenging, but also exciting, field because much of its most important and groundbreaking work lies at the subtle confine between philosophy and science, between the humanities and rigorous scientific research. It attempts to bridge the gap between the so-called two cultures by creating a synthesizing third culture that includes and enhances the first two.
Philosophy of mind is a large and complex field. Indeed, a growing number of philosophers believe that the analytic tradition of philosophy is currently undergoing a shift from an emphasis on language to an emphasis on mind and its contents. The vast amount of information is too much for one or two people to handle. The coordinative effort of all those willing to assist is needed.
Since we are a derivative of WikiProject Philosophy, our goals are very similar and are as follows:
- To serve as a nexus and discussion area for contributors with knowledge of philosophy of mind;
- To identify those areas of philosophy of mind which lack sufficient coverage on Wikipedia;
- To improve those articles that need help;
- To create a general map of the philosophy of mind articles and subjects on Wikipedia and link the articles together accordingly.
[edit] Current goals
- Identify and create missing philosophy of mind content (see Writing and Editing)
- Improve the categorization and organization of philosophy of mind material
- Gather interest and participation in a philosophy of mind community within Wikipedia, including a Philosophy of Mind Collaboration project
- Maintain and improve the Mind and Brain Portal
- Translate whole articles or sections from good German articles such as: de:Bewusstsein, de:Qualia, de:Supervenienz, de:Kognitionswissenschaft etc.
- Please try to think of all possible renderings of terms before deciding that they don't exist. If they don't exist under any rendering then create a stub (or article if you see fit) and then create the pages for the different possible renderings and add the command: #REDIRECT Name of article you created, in order to redirect all the renderings to one page. Example: type physicalism has identity theory of mind, type-type theory, type materialism, etc. all redirected to it. This can often be done with many names of concepts listed on the main Philosophy Wikiproject's "list of philosophical concepts."
[edit] Participants
- Lacatosias (talk • contribs)
- Davidlud (talk • contribs)
- Eequor (talk • contribs)
- Paul Hope (talk • contribs)
- Steiger (talk • contribs)
- Zereshk (talk • contribs)
- Jaymay (talk • contribs)
- Jdclevenger (talk • contribs)
- Bill Clark (talk • contribs)
[edit] Writing and Editing
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