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2025-02-15 18:50 Diff · History 52 →Etymology: adding wikilink to sophia per Talk:Philosophy#Why_is_there_no_mention_that_the_word_comes_from_Sophia,_the_Greek_goddess_of_wisdom
2024-09-20 01:14 Diff · History -1,223 Restored revision 1246329067 by Phlsph7 (talk): Pls take revisions to talk page
2024-03-08 17:10 Diff · History -4 →Etymology: removing wikilink from epistemology, which is already linked in the lead (plus it's just weird to link only this item, and not also metaphysics and ethics from the same sentence)
2024-01-27 16:23 Diff · History 2 Undid revision 1199553674 by Jiknimo (talk) "later" means temporally after something else, and "latter" refers to the last of aforementioned topics; "narrower" and "more narrow" are both correct
2023-12-09 15:37 Diff · History -247 Undid revision 1189059747 by Infogiraffic (talk)pls. never edit the lead to an article w/o first discussing on talk page; see WP:LEAD and, with respect to this content, WP:NOTDB
2023-12-06 16:10 Diff · History 320 restoring image, which received positive feedback in recent GA and FA reviews, but relocating it to the left margin in an effort to address previous editor's visual concerns
2023-11-12 16:43 Diff · History 71 →Academic definitions: restoring earlier version of last two paragraphs per discussion at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Philosophy/archive1#Comment_from_UC
2023-11-11 17:40 Diff · History 0 →Bibliography: alph
2023-11-11 15:57 Diff · History 0 →top: "focuses principally" reads better than "principally focuses"
2023-11-11 15:54 Diff · History 12 →top: adding qualifier "principally" to avoid depicting Chinese philosophy, in contrast to the other geographical traditions, as strictly limited to the single constellation of topics mentioned in lead (however broad they are); this is supported by the language in the article
2023-11-03 20:22 Diff · History 114 Undid revision 1183351237 by ProofCreature (talk) nothing inconsistent or contradictory here (also, pls. take care to keep citations outside of terminal punctuation)
2023-09-24 18:00 Diff · History -1,562 Undid revision 1176890939 by Mashaunix (talk) thanks for this good-faith contribution, but pls use talk page to achieve consensus before editing article lead
2023-09-21 19:07 Diff · History -35 cutting mention of medium in image caption to avoid indenting the next section head
2023-09-21 13:47 Diff · History -11 →Etymology: in being so considered, it simply was
2023-09-21 13:45 Diff · History 234 adding an image of Newton and the apple tree to Etymology
2023-08-31 17:27 Diff · History -28 →top: pls. don't edit the lead without first discussing this on the talk page
2023-08-25 19:45 Diff · History 4 →Other major branches: ce
2023-08-25 19:40 Diff · History 1 →Metaphysics: ce
2023-08-25 19:37 Diff · History -5 →Ethics: a more objective presentation of the issue
2023-08-25 19:30 Diff · History 1 →Western: ce
2023-08-25 19:28 Diff · History 3 →Academic definitions: typo
2023-08-22 21:14 Diff · History 38 →Relation to other fields: rephrasing the sentence about sexism; see GA review
2023-08-21 21:15 Diff · History 34 →Other major branches: adding a "See also" to a list of philosophies—the majority of which are impossible to cover in such a high-level article
2023-08-21 20:04 Diff · History -12 →General conception:
2023-08-20 17:43 Diff · History -336 →Logic: removing list of logics from end of section: other sections do not have similar lists, and those interested in more can find it through the Main Article Wikilink
2023-08-20 17:40 Diff · History -79 →Logic: simplifying first para per GA feedback
2023-08-20 17:28 Diff · History 24 →Western: adding wikilink to women in philosophy
2023-08-20 17:20 Diff · History 9 →Methods: various edits per GA reviewer comments
2023-08-20 16:46 Diff · History -10 →Political philosophy:
2023-08-20 16:45 Diff · History -49 →Philosophy of religion: ce per GA feedback
2023-08-20 16:40 Diff · History -16 →Philosophy of mind:
2023-08-20 16:36 Diff · History 122 →Other major branches: edit to section lead per GA feedback
2023-08-20 16:31 Diff · History -20 →Metaphysics:
2023-08-20 16:26 Diff · History 7 →Academic definitions: edit to phi as way of life pre GA review
2023-08-20 16:23 Diff · History -555 →Academic definitions: simplifying description of phenomenology
2023-08-20 15:25 Diff · History -1 →Bibliography:
2023-08-20 00:55 Diff · History -33 →Academic definitions: edits per GA review
2023-08-20 00:48 Diff · History -10 →Academic definitions:
2023-08-20 00:18 Diff · History 201 →General conception: why Kant's four questions are of general interest
2023-08-20 00:11 Diff · History 177 →General conception: adding a secondary, interpretative source per GA reviewer request
2023-08-20 00:06 Diff · History 202 →Bibliography:
2023-08-19 23:54 Diff · History -14 →General conception: ce
2023-08-19 23:43 Diff · History 5 →Etymology:
2023-08-19 23:41 Diff · History 2 →Etymology: tense
2023-08-19 23:39 Diff · History 23 →Etymology: disambiguating referent
2023-08-19 23:36 Diff · History -35 →Etymology: removing meaningless qualifying clause
2023-08-19 23:34 Diff · History -47 →Etymology: not sure how we missed this repetition...
2023-08-19 23:31 Diff · History 0 eliminating several uses of "claim" per GA review feedback
2023-08-19 23:24 Diff · History -25 removing extraneous "very"s
2023-08-19 15:31 Diff · History -117 →Bibliography: deleting entry that has been replaced with critical Cambridge edition listed under the authorship of Kant
2023-08-19 15:29 Diff · History -6 →General conception: correcting Kant citations to revised bibliographic entries
2023-08-19 15:27 Diff · History 333 →Bibliography: correcting/restoring bibliographic information on Kant's works, which appears to have been mangled by script
2023-07-28 18:21 Diff · History 1 →Academic definitions:
2023-07-27 00:55 Diff · History -2 →References:
2023-07-24 19:32 Diff · History -592 removing claim from end of "Relation to other fields" that appears to be sourced to the claims of the logical positivism long discredited or, at any rate, extremely marginal; also removing two sources
2023-07-23 23:36 Diff · History -45 →Relation to other fields: political philosophers have discussed this since Antiquity, but politicians don't typically make appeals to philosophy to maybe overthrow their present form of government
2023-07-23 23:30 Diff · History -33 →Relation to other fields: the obligations of CEOs to stockholders are legal and not particularly philosophical
2023-07-23 23:27 Diff · History -1 →Relation to other fields:
2023-07-23 23:23 Diff · History -128 →Methods: pragmatism can be (and sometimes must be) quite technical
2023-07-23 23:17 Diff · History 25 →Philosophy of mind: ce; Wikilink to qualia
2023-07-23 23:14 Diff · History -7 →Metaphysics: ce
2023-07-23 23:12 Diff · History 3 →Logic: ce
2023-07-23 23:11 Diff · History 8 →Ethics: I think this looks better? the bullet points were anomalous
2023-07-23 23:07 Diff · History 0 →Core branches:
2023-07-23 23:04 Diff · History -12 →Western: ce
2023-07-23 23:02 Diff · History -19 →Academic definitions: ce
2023-07-23 23:00 Diff · History -6 →General conception: ce
2023-07-23 22:58 Diff · History -19 →Etymology: ce
2023-07-19 15:17 Diff · History 9 →Bibliography:
2023-07-17 18:05 Diff · History -7 →Philosophy of mind:
2023-07-16 16:59 Diff · History -27 →Political philosophy:
2023-07-16 16:55 Diff · History 15 →Academic definitions:
2023-07-16 16:53 Diff · History 10 →Academic definitions: reordering some paras into (I think?) more coherent order; minor edit to final para
2023-07-16 16:50 Diff · History -728 →Academic definitions: I think this is redundant with earlier mention of "study of the biggest patterns of the world as a whole"
2023-07-16 16:48 Diff · History 266 →Academic definitions: trying to make Husserl para coherent to a general audience
2023-07-16 16:37 Diff · History -89 →Academic definitions: breaking apart paragraph so each definition gets its own
2023-07-16 16:32 Diff · History -8 →General conception:
2023-07-16 16:31 Diff · History 14 →General conception:
2023-07-16 16:30 Diff · History -14 →General conception:
2023-07-16 16:27 Diff · History 3 →Political philosophy: too many levels of branches...
2023-07-15 19:53 Diff · History 8 →General conception:
2023-07-15 19:52 Diff · History 4 →General conception:
2023-07-15 19:42 Diff · History 13 →General conception:
2023-07-15 19:23 Diff · History 37 →Other major branches: small edit to section lead
2023-07-15 19:21 Diff · History 0 →Bibliography:
2023-07-15 19:14 Diff · History 516 →Bibliography:
2023-07-15 19:05 Diff · History 528 →General conception: removing Aristotle para; adding para on Socratic ignorance instead, and thematically linking it to Kant and Russell citations
2023-07-15 17:32 Diff · History 0 →Academic definitions: chronology
2023-07-15 17:30 Diff · History 139 →Academic definitions: expanding on cryptic position attributed to Husserl and adding section info to the most relevant of the sources given (para could still use improvement, though)
2023-07-14 23:03 Diff · History -1 →Other major branches: moving up phi religion so branches are in alph order
2023-07-14 23:02 Diff · History 213 →Others: another layer of headings — see Talk page
2023-07-14 22:59 Diff · History 5 →Branches: renaming "Core branches" — comment forthcoming on Talk page
2023-07-14 22:55 Diff · History 2 →Bibliography:
2023-07-14 22:54 Diff · History 898 →Bibliography:
2023-07-14 22:51 Diff · History -13 →Others: new/updated para on phi religion
2023-07-14 21:43 Diff · History -1 →Relation to other fields:
2023-07-14 21:42 Diff · History 5 →Relation to other fields:
2023-07-14 21:40 Diff · History 2 →Relation to other fields:
2023-07-14 21:40 Diff · History -160 →Relation to other fields: the journalists I know would laugh at the idea of consulting with a philosopher in order to assess the reliability of a source — they have their own internal criteria for that (or else please provide a stronger source to the contrary)
2023-07-14 21:18 Diff · History 565 →Bibliography:
2023-07-14 21:17 Diff · History 893 →Others: new para on phi science
2023-07-14 19:58 Diff · History -1 →Others:
2023-07-14 19:57 Diff · History -265 →Others: copy edit of political philosophy
2023-07-14 19:51 Diff · History 14 →Others:
2023-07-14 19:38 Diff · History -446 →Others: removing maybe a little more detail than necessary to shorten para
2023-07-14 19:37 Diff · History -1,007 →Relation to other fields: removing broad claim about cultural and personal significance of philosophy; these are not fields, and the points are made elsewhere in the article
2023-07-13 23:43 Diff · History 326 →Bibliography:
2023-07-13 23:42 Diff · History 388 →Others: addition/edit to para on aesthetics
2023-07-13 22:00 Diff · History 504 →Bibliography:
2023-07-13 21:57 Diff · History 769 →Others: new para on political philosophy
2023-07-13 19:02 Diff · History -215 →Others: more historical schools than necessary
2023-07-13 18:59 Diff · History 0 →Others:
2023-07-13 18:58 Diff · History 15 →Others:
2023-07-13 18:52 Diff · History -27 →Others:
2023-07-13 18:50 Diff · History 1,586 →Others: a new para on phi mind
2023-07-13 18:19 Diff · History 8 →Others:
2023-07-13 17:27 Diff · History 197 →Bibliography:
2023-07-13 17:26 Diff · History 810 →Others: something with at least a little more substance on the philosophy of language
2023-07-11 20:42 Diff · History 131 →Relation to other fields: adding an image linked to bioethics
2023-07-11 20:34 Diff · History 5 →Metaphysics: moving image to left for visual diversity
2023-07-11 20:33 Diff · History -25 →Conceptions of philosophy: Russell quote not long enough to be blockquote (self-edit!)
2023-07-11 20:31 Diff · History -110 →top: removing etymological details from the lead that are immediately duplicated below (see Talk)
2023-07-07 19:28 Diff · History 144 →Bibliography:
2023-07-07 19:27 Diff · History 604 →Branches: adding representative questions to 3 of the 4 core branches of philosophy as per Talk page (formatting improvements most welcome)
2023-07-07 18:54 Diff · History 46 →Methods: adding common English rendering of epoché (as is supported by IEP source already given)
2023-07-07 18:39 Diff · History 1 →Etymology:
2023-07-07 18:35 Diff · History 111 →Bibliography: alph
2023-07-07 18:25 Diff · History -1,357 →Methods: per agreement on Talk page, removing this minor (and arguably faddish) sub-field
2023-07-07 18:24 Diff · History -54 →Methods: from a phenomenological perspective, (an initial) appearance could only be "inaccurate" with reference to further appearances; I'm not sure this sentence is strictly wrong, but I think it is potentially misleading in that it makes phenomenology much more subjective than it at least claims/aspires to be
2023-07-07 18:16 Diff · History -3 →Etymology: copy edit
2023-07-06 19:03 Diff · History -805 →Bibliography: imposing alph
2023-07-06 17:52 Diff · History 3 →Methods:
2023-07-06 17:49 Diff · History -153 →Others: on further thought, just axing this whole sentence: these are their own disciplines, and their intersections with philosophy are mentioned below, as is more appropriate
2023-07-06 17:39 Diff · History 2 →Others:
2023-07-06 17:39 Diff · History -394 →Others: editing overly broad claim; replacing puzzling mention of "art theory" (sourced to a dictionary definition of "aesthetic"!) with "philosophy of art", which is at least an actual sub-specialty (+Wikilink)
2023-07-05 22:09 Diff · History 1 →Others:
2023-06-30 18:47 Diff · History -4 →History {{anchor|Historical overview}}: this is technically the mention of a term, but the italics seem overkill on top of the Wikilink—undoing my own edit
2023-06-28 15:17 Diff · History -14 →Evolution of philosophy: new head, per discussion on Talk page
2023-06-28 00:54 Diff · History -4 →The evolution of philosophy: maybe better without the article?
2023-06-28 00:35 Diff · History 1 →General conception:
2023-06-28 00:02 Diff · History 587 →General conception: further general characterization of philosopher sourced to OED
2023-06-27 23:47 Diff · History -12 →The evolution of philosophy:
2023-06-27 23:47 Diff · History 257 →The evolution of philosophy: a bit more on etymology from OED
2023-06-27 23:38 Diff · History 33 →Academic definitions: the language of essences, I believe, is most strongly associated with Husserl (who, in any case, is the founder of modern phenomenology)
2023-06-27 23:33 Diff · History 77 →Academic definitions: adding names and Wikilinks of the two most prominent 20th-century philosophers advocating for a return to Greco-Roman spiritual exercises
2023-06-27 23:27 Diff · History 7 minor rewording in lead to correct for grammatical error introduced by last edit
2023-06-27 23:24 Diff · History -21 I don't know whether or not that is true, but it is not supported by the source cited or the article
2023-06-27 23:21 Diff · History 24 moving a well-sourced claim about 19th-century academic specialization down from the lead to the body of the article, which does not otherwise discuss this (if that changes, it should probably be moved back up)
2023-06-27 23:11 Diff · History 1 →Academic definitions: def. was a typo — I think "naturalistic" is correct adjective?
2023-06-27 23:06 Diff · History 7 →The evolution of philosophy:
2023-06-27 23:05 Diff · History -1 →The evolution of philosophy: not so sure about cosmology
2023-06-27 21:16 Diff · History -6 →Major branches of philosophy: evaluative adjective in head seems increasingly awkward—removing
2023-06-27 21:00 Diff · History 1 →The evolution of philosophy:
2023-06-27 20:58 Diff · History -718 removing graphic clutter at the top of the page
2023-06-27 20:47 Diff · History 1 moving etymological info up from Conceptions to Evolution
2023-06-27 20:45 Diff · History -2 moving up The evolution of philosophy — see Talk
2023-06-27 20:17 Diff · History -11 →The historical evolution of philosophy: probably was redundant
2023-06-27 20:15 Diff · History 2 →The historical evolution of philosophy:
2023-06-27 20:12 Diff · History 17 →Other classifications: a more accurate title (preparing to more this up to the top of the article—rationale forthcoming on Talk page)
2023-06-27 19:59 Diff · History -10 →Other classifications:
2023-06-27 19:51 Diff · History 56 →Other classifications: as before
2023-06-27 19:47 Diff · History 57 →Other classifications: general cleanup/copy edit
2023-06-27 17:55 Diff · History 3 →Other classifications:
2023-06-27 17:21 Diff · History 2 →Other classifications:
2023-06-27 16:41 Diff · History -2 removing unnecessary quote marks around "Natural philosophy" (also: correction to previous summary, it was italics not quote marks that were removed)
2023-06-27 16:38 Diff · History -8 removing misuse of term quotes in the lead
2023-06-27 16:10 Diff · History 667 →General conception: adding Kant's four questions — see also forthcoming Talk post about this section
2023-06-27 15:30 Diff · History 0 →Conceptions of philosophy: moving claim up to section lead where it makes more sense
2023-06-27 15:20 Diff · History -79 →See also: these entries do not belong
2023-06-27 14:43 Diff · History 358 →General conception: adding a little more from first book of Metaphysics about origins of philosophy (per Aristotle)
2023-06-27 14:15 Diff · History 9 →Major branches of philosophy: moving claim up from Political philosophy to section lead, where it makes more sense
2023-06-27 14:01 Diff · History 1 →Logic:
2023-06-27 13:57 Diff · History 1 →Major branches of philosophy:
2023-06-27 13:56 Diff · History -132 →Major branches of philosophy: this parenthetical does not support the point
2023-06-27 13:54 Diff · History 1 →General conception:
2023-06-27 13:53 Diff · History 1 →Academic definitions: reordering some sentences and paragraphs
2023-06-27 13:37 Diff · History 14 →Definitions: take two on a new title for the section, this time not a question
2023-06-27 13:36 Diff · History -56 →Outside the academic profession: removing Wikilink to section that no longer exists
2023-06-27 01:54 Diff · History -36 removing some strange English
2023-06-27 01:52 Diff · History 59 →Historical overview {{anchor|History}}: adding a See also to Outline of philosophy
2023-06-27 01:39 Diff · History -7 →Methods of philosophy:
2023-06-27 01:38 Diff · History 2 →Methods of philosophy: rearranging material into a more coherent order
2023-06-27 01:35 Diff · History -1,869 →Methods of philosophy: these methods, as is clear in the sourcing, are those of Descartes and Spinoza—hugely important to the history of philosophy, but hardly popular today!
2023-06-27 01:25 Diff · History -1,113 →Branches of philosophy: editing title of head to discourage editors from adding all kinds of sub-specialties, such as metaphilosophy, which I am removing because, even though it is definitely a real thing that should maybe be mentioned, it does not belong here
2023-06-27 01:22 Diff · History 1 →Ethics:
2023-06-27 01:21 Diff · History 1 →Aesthetics:
2023-06-27 01:21 Diff · History 2 →Aesthetics:
2023-06-27 01:18 Diff · History -4 →External links: organizing according to alph
2023-06-27 01:17 Diff · History -33 →External links: this site is a mess—and definitely not a reliable resource
2023-06-27 01:12 Diff · History 20 →Branches of philosophy: correcting Wikilinks
2023-06-27 00:53 Diff · History 0 →General conception:
2023-06-27 00:45 Diff · History 0 →What is philosophy?: take two
2023-06-27 00:44 Diff · History -1 →What is philosophy?: moving Main link to second head
2023-06-27 00:43 Diff · History 50 →What is philosophy?: introducing subheads (which I hope will help encourage contributions to the General conception—since this top-level article should not be targeted primarily at academics)
2023-06-27 00:36 Diff · History 278 →What is philosophy?: adding Aristotle quote
2023-06-27 00:24 Diff · History -123 →Epistemology: removing image lacking connection to the content of the section
2023-06-27 00:18 Diff · History -5 →What is philosophy?: replacing word "definition" with others (e.g., "conception") as seems most appropriate
2023-06-27 00:13 Diff · History 15 →What is philosophy?:
2023-06-27 00:13 Diff · History -1,216 →Definitions: new head more appropriate for a top-level article not limited to academic philosophy; efforts to clean up at least some references; more paragraph breaks for somewhat better readability; eliminating claim only about Heidegger expressed in jargon
2023-06-27 00:02 Diff · History -2,362 removing some unnecessary (and, in some cases, quite odd) references from the lead for claims already well supported by the article; also got rid of a duplicate of an embedded pop-up note thing
2023-06-26 22:03 Diff · History 3 →Definitions:
2023-06-26 21:15 Diff · History 2 →Definitions:
2023-06-26 21:13 Diff · History 917 →Definitions: various edits to the opening of this section to explain just a little bit more about what phi is and why people bother with it—before the section transitions to an academic catalog
2023-06-26 19:52 Diff · History 77 →Epistemology: rough clarification of Gettier problem, which, Wikilink notwithstanding, readers can hardly be presumed familar
2023-06-26 19:49 Diff · History -1,068 →Epistemology: as I suspected, the source does not support this claim at all; the questions and terminology of textbook accounts of the early modern period are no longer central to epistemology
2023-06-26 18:12 Diff · History 2 →Definitions:
2023-06-26 18:09 Diff · History 69 adding history of philosophy to areas of philosophical study in the lead
2023-06-26 18:06 Diff · History -182 this simple claim does not require an example in the lead; its one use in the appropriate section below should suffice
2023-06-26 18:05 Diff · History -3 moving obviously controversial claim about Pythagorean origins of the term philosophy down from the lead into the opening of the Definition section
2023-06-26 17:44 Diff · History 34 →Branches of philosophy: one more See also
2023-06-26 17:41 Diff · History 60 →Branches of philosophy: adding See also
2023-06-26 17:38 Diff · History 0 →Women in philosophy:
2023-06-26 17:34 Diff · History -1,375 →Methods of philosophy: moving underdeveloped section on Philosophical progress to Talk page; it does not make sense to place this under Methods, and it is not substantial enough to stand on its own
2023-06-26 17:32 Diff · History 12 →Methods of philosophy: introducing paragraphs to break up the ideas in this section until such a time as someone properly organizes it under subheads
2023-06-26 17:28 Diff · History 3 →Other subdivisions: new title to, I hope, make it clearer that what is being presented is an alternative, not a supplement to the above
2023-06-26 17:25 Diff · History -2 →Philosophy of religion:
2023-06-26 17:25 Diff · History -12 →Political philosophy: clarifying that it is by no means standard practice to collapse these three major areas of specialization under umbrella heading of value theory (also some do, and there is nothing wrong with that)
2023-06-26 17:22 Diff · History 22 →Mind and language: qualifying to clarify that materialism need not be non-dualistic
2023-06-26 17:20 Diff · History -272 →Metaphysics: there is no "major point of debate" about reality being immaterial – removing sentence already flagged as in need of citation
2023-06-26 17:17 Diff · History -1 →Epistemology:
2023-06-26 17:16 Diff · History 27 →Ethics: qualifying an over-expansive claim
2023-06-26 17:13 Diff · History -192 →Logic: removing an unsourced claim situating a metaphysical question about the ontology of mathematical objects, which is not a question that cannot be addressed by logic
2023-06-26 16:32 Diff · History -4 →Applied and professional philosophy: less misleading head: "applied philosophy" refers to things like bioethical consulting, and "professional philosophy" refers university teaching and research
2023-06-25 16:30 Diff · History -74 removing final sentence/paragraph of lead about World Philosophy Day — neat to learn this exists, but if it's not important enough to be in the article, it should not close out the lead
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