User:Jabot the Scrob
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Hello. I am an entity named Jabot the Scrob. I like a variety of stuff. I am more specifically interested in philosophical theories of culture, particularly those that will allow us a very broad spectrum view of epistemology, and ultimately ethics. Mostly I am a lurker because sometimes it seems that when I bother to edit this page it can soak up alot of time I would otherwise spend reading the articles, which is usually more interesting. I will try to spruce up this page alittle more though to make it more meaningful by trying to explain why items are listed here (at least a little bit). I am a big fan of the random article button!
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[edit] Pages Of Interest
[edit] Languages
- philosophy of language-I'm interested in a general sort of way. I have written papers on the importance of philosophy of language in the Chuang Tzu, and in the development of chemistry from alchemy.
- synthetic language-I'm interested in linguistic properties like this, partly from the philosophy of language perspective but also from a poetic perspective. I am trying to think alittle about whether knowledge of the abstract properties of language would help a poet to write more sophisticated poetry, or whether it comes down more to simple practice and familiarity which might include a kind of intuitive grasp of such properties.
- Ancient Greek-especially for philosopher's, ancient greek is just cool, also Homer! I can read the letters and know some words, (mostly philosophy terms or that have a clear English derivative)
- Latin-ditto, both philosophy and poetry, not much actual knowledge though.
- French language-I've studied this for some time, though you wouldn't know it to speak to me! I will look into getting one of those linguistic signs some people have on their pages.
- German language-I am currently studying this language.
- Chinese language-I am studying this in my spare time which is pretty rarely.
[edit] Mathematical Physics
[edit] Conquerors
- Napoleon
- Alexander the Great
- Sargon of Akkad-I'm currently reading up on Ancient Mesopotamian history and literature
[edit] Poets
[edit] Wikiproject: Philosophy
I would like to say I am more involved. At this point, my only involvement is to have this sign on my page.
- German Idealism and almost all the articles related to it need to be either rewritten or expanded, because a wikipedia user called Lestrade has, among other things, taken it upon himself to imbue each page with bias in favour of Schopenhauer, who he attempts to present as having the last say in everything. This is a terrible thing to do, because German Idealism is such an important period in philosophy, whose influence is still strongly felt today.
- Protected Values first section confuses right action and values and needs a copy edit, moving and wikifying
- Ludwig Wittgenstein is having its FA status reviewed due to a couple of concerns. Help save Ludwig! See Wikipedia:Featured article review/Ludwig Wittgenstein for requirements for retaining FA status.
- Quality (philosophy) needs a more clear explanation.
- Socratic dialogues could do with some tidying and clarification. See the talk page for one suggested change.
- Problem of universals: The introductory definition is (perhaps) fixed. But, the article is poor. Check out the German version.
- Teleology: the article is shallow and inconsistent.
- Existentialism: the quality of this article varies wildly and is in desperate need of expert attention.
- Star of Sophia Vote for or nominate someone you think is deserving!
- Analytic_philosophy This is a very major topic, but still has several sections which are stubs, and several topics which are not covered.
- Inverse (logic) This article makes me wish that there were a fail grade on the quality scale. Someone should rewrite it.
