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Kevin M. I. Schutte
Santa Barbara, California
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[edit] Curriculum Vitae
Master of Arts, Philosophy, 2007, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, 2003, California State University, Sacramento
-Concentration in Logic and Philosophy of Science
-Concentration in Applied Ethics and Philosophy of Law
Student member of:
[edit] Areas of Specialization (in progress)
[edit] My Research
- My views roughly coincide with the following:
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- METAPHYSICS: antirealism, associationism, atheism, compatibilism, connectionism, Darwinism, determinism, functionalism, naturalistic hylozoism, mental/methodological individualism, naturalism, ontological relativism, panpsychism.
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[edit] My To-Read List
[edit] Minor Philosophical Interests
The hand with a wheel on the palm symbolizes the Jain Vow of Ahimsa, meaning non-injury and
non-violence. The word in the middle of the wheel reads "
ahimsa." This logo represents halting the cycle of reincarnation through relentless pursuit of
truth.
(This is intended to be a maximally extensive list.)
Feminism and Gender Studies
History of Natural Philosophy
Metaphilosophy
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Education
[edit] My Major Wikipedia Contributions
- Deaths of philosophers
- List of philosophers born in the centuries BC, List of philosophers born in the first through tenth centuries, List of philosophers born in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries, List of philosophers born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, List of philosophers born in the seventeenth century, List of philosophers born in the eighteenth century, List of philosophers born in the nineteenth century, List of philosophers born in the twentieth century, and List of living philosophers and academics of philosophy. I originally added the references to this list, and I also later split the list chronologically. I recommend the chronological version over the alphabetical version because I think no one carefully monitors the alphabetical lists and thus they are prone to vandalism and misrepresentation.
- List of philosophical topics (A-C), List of philosophical topics (D-H), List of philosophical topics (I-Q), and List of philosophical topics (R-Z).
- List of women philosophers
- Material conditional
- Timeline of Eastern philosophers
- I am working on a draft for the article Philosophy. That draft can be found here.
[edit] My VFD Philosophy
I think it is better to have no article on a subject than a bad, uninformative, or confusion-producing article. I am annoyed by Wikieditors who vote to keep a page merely because someday there could be a useful Wikiarticle on the subject. If the article existing at present is worthless, it shouldn't be retained, no matter how worthy its title.
[edit] Future Contributions
Over the next year, I'd like to work on the following articles:
- Notes:
finish updating institutions for the names already on the list, then add beginning from the top university on this list, noting the Emeritus/Emerita status of these people, if not already indicated. When finished, make a subpage to watch "what links here".
- Notes: Links below. Also, John Macmurray.
- Philosophy on the internet
- Notes: Phil review and any other notable PR journals online. Link link link! Organization is crucial.
- Notes: Describe tiers of journals, link those we have articles for.
- Notes: organize
- Notes: organize
- Notes: Update from my private database
[edit] Recommended Links
[edit] Philosophy on the Radio
[edit] Wikipedia articles that I hate
- If you have a mouse with a scrolling-wheel on it, you can hold down the ctrl key on your keyboard while spinning that wheel to make web text smaller (for printing) or larger (for reading). I discovered this extremely useful information by chance and have since wondered why no one told me, so now I am telling you.
- I'm tickled by the fact that at present there are no articles in Category:Unsolved problems in philosophy.
WikiProject Philosophy task list
- Charles Peirce: This article needs a lot of help. The POV is way too idiosyncratic and the style is offputting for a general audience, to say the least. You will have to be willing to go to the mat, however, with the primary author, who has been banned but has reappeared under different names.
- Desert: At least narrow it down to being in philosophy, ethics, or morality. An actual article at any of these three would be nice, too.
- Cesare Cremonini: created "start-level", would need new eyes and hands.
- Fatalism: Stub-like. Needs to be cleaned up and expanded
- Aristotelianism: Needs to be expanded
- Logical argument: Needs work to be of use
- Sign / Symbol: Introductions contain too much technical jargon
- Catholic Probabilism: Pretty nearly straight from the old Catholic Encyclopedia
- Counterfactuals: Needs fuller and more accurate summary of main theories, as well as indication of philosophical importance in other topics, notably causation and inference.
- Human agency: Expand, correct, and reference. Any support for altering the name?
- Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology Sartre's magnum opus, barely more than a stub
- Übermensch: desperately needs knowledgable attention
- Kant's Groundwork: re-write, expand
- Existentialism: in dire need of a cleanup and reworking of information
- African philosophy: needs a lot of work!
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