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350: 77: 1010:), and have no sense of or respect for Knowledge (XXG) policies or guidelines. Even if I had the time and energy to commit myself full time to improving the article, they would frustrate that attempt. Just look at the article's history as soon as the protection was removed: rocket-powered hysterical editing, with edit-warring thrown in, all with the net result of... the usual mess. 1006:, which is a laughing stock; it and one or two other similar articles have often been cited in my hearing as evidence that Knowledge (XXG) shouldn't be taken seriously or used as a reliable resource. Although I find that depressing, I don't feel that there's anything that anyone can do; editors like are tirelessly logodiarrhoeic (somewhere between types 6 and 7 on the 55: 33: 92:, which had not been covered properly until 2008). My main area of expertise is in Anglo-American analytic philosophy (I graduated from a well-known British university in the 1970's, did my PhD there, and taught there until the late 1980's. I have work in a number of excellent journals, and continue to work and 301: 1001:
Thanks for alerting me. To be honest, and I might as well be, I find ludicrous, self-contradictory, often deeply uncivil (and equally often deeply obscure), baselessly arrogant, and lacking in self-control, self-awareness, and understanding of philosophy. He and a few other editors have taken over
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little), who lack understanding of key concepts, terms, etc., and who attempt to take over the article (and its Talk page) with rambling, ground-shifting, often barely comprehensible rants against those who disagree with them. Life's too short. I just tell my students and anyone else I know not to
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I know Knowledge (XXG) basically has to use some stock photo that some random person took of you because they can’t use anything that anyone wants to claim the rights to. They can’t use for example my author photo or any photo of me that has ever been in a magazine or a newspaper.
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For the entire time I have edited at Knowledge (XXG) I have been concerned about the way that experts are treated on the project (often with disdain, often with complete misunderstanding of the principles underlying true expert editing). I was a founder member of the
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I'm a philosopher; why don't I edit the article on my subject? Because it's hopeless. I've tried at various times, and each time have given up in depressed disgust. Philosophy seems to attract aggressive zealots who know a little (often a
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a long time ago. I joined Knowledge (XXG) in 2003. There is a list of my articles below. The articles in bold are those to which I was the main contributor, and whose subject is important or notable (e.g.
1022: 96:, although I no longer teach). I also have an interest in medieval philosophy, and set theory and mathematics. My contributions to the project mostly reflect these specialisms. 113: 993:
read the Knowledge (XXG) article except for a laugh. It's one of those areas where the ochlocratic nature of Knowledge (XXG) really comes a cropper.
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this book
History of logic
publish
Expert retention project
Knowledge (XXG):List_of_administrators/stat_table
Sense and Reference
Eternity of world
SEP vs WP
Free will
Free will (draft)
Phantom time
Peer review
User:Peter Damian/Theology
User:Peter Damian/Ethics
User:Peter Damian/Ayn Rand
User:Peter Damian/WPFLAT
User:Peter Damian/Dark Ages
User:Peter Damian/S
Knowledge (XXG):List of missing journals/N-Z
Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic
User:Peter Damian/NLP
User:Peter Damian/Fragma

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