Talk:Philosophy

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 23:27, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that most of the individual sciences formed part of philosophy until they reached their status as autonomous disciplines? Source:
  • ALT1: ... that Ludwig Wittgenstein understood philosophy as a linguistic therapy that aims to dispel misunderstandings caused by the confusing structure of natural language? Source:
  • ALT2: ... that Isaac Newton's opus on physics was at the time considered a work of philosophy? Source:
  • ALT3: ... that Bertrand Russell advocated philosophy as a means to free oneself from prejudices and self-deceptive notions derived from common sense? Source:
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• Tuomela, Raimo (30 September 1985). Science, Action, and Reality. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 1. ISBN 978-90-277-2098-6.
• Shivendra, Chandra Soti (2006). Philosophy of Education. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-81-7156-637-2.
• Joll, Nicholas. "Metaphilosophy". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
• Biletzki, Anat; Matar, Anat (2021). "Ludwig Wittgenstein: 3.7 The Nature of Philosophy". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
• Cotterell, Brian (29 August 2017). Physics And Culture. World Scientific. p. 458. ISBN 978-1-78634-378-9.
• Maddy, Penelope (2022). A Plea for Natural Philosophy: And Other Essays. Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-19-750885-5.
• Russell, Bertrand (1912). The Problems of Philosophy. p. 91.
• Pojman, Louis P.; Vaughn, Lewis, eds. (2009). Philosophy: The Quest for Truth (7th ed.). Oxford University Press.

Improved to Good Article status by Phlsph7 (talk) and PatrickJWelsh (talk). Nominated by Phlsph7 (talk) and PatrickJWelsh (talk) at 15:55, 25 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Philosophy; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• The article is certainly DYK-eligible! A QPQ has been done (hope to see HF back around these parts soon), and I have no concerns with the article content that would be a problem for DYK. I'm unsold on the hooks, though -- there's a seed of a great hook in ALT0, but it needs more concision to shine. Allow me to propose...
  • ALT0a: ... that most of the individual sciences formed part of philosophy before they became separate disciplines?
  • ALT0b: ... that most of the sciences formed part of philosophy before they became separate disciplines?
• ALT0b is a little more terse in a way that tends to work at DYK, but "individual" is a meaningful enough word in this context that I'm giving options with and without it to allow for some flexibility. Are you fine with these? Vaticidalprophet 20:42, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
  • And another that just occurred to me, given all three are explicitly mentioned in the article. I think this is the best bet:
    • ALT0c: ... that physics, chemistry, and biology were all part of philosophy before they became separate disciplines?
  • Thoughts again? Vaticidalprophet 21:52, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
    • @Vaticidalprophet: Thanks for the suggestions, they all make good candidates. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:32, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
    • @Vaticidalprophet: Hi, I like option "c" best, but I'm fine with the others as well. Thanks for looking at this! Patrick J. Welsh (talk) 13:59, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
      • Nice -- I agree ALT0c is the best too :) Putting this on new-review for somebody to approve the new hooks, but I've already reviewed the article itself. Vaticidalprophet 15:14, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
• Article recently brought to GA, long enough, neutral, hooks are cited in the article, no copyvio/closeparaphrasing, hooks are within the character limit, accurate, sourced, probably of interest. QPQ is done. No image, which is a shame. After all, Martin Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table. I find a general consensus for ALT0c. Free to fly. SN54129 12:56, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
  • I added an image of Newton and the apple tree to the article (Philosophy#Etymology), which could be included. Patrick J. Welsh (talk) 13:51, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
    • Go for it, PatrickJWelsh; actually, it's extremely apt, considering that to modern eyes, Newton was a mathematician, whereas, as the hook suggests, he would also have been a philosopher to contemporaries. Well thought! SN54129 16:07, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Talk:Philosophy (Wikipedia article)

If you have an opinion, please join the discussion. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:14, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Vedas written 900 BCE?

"It started around 900 BCE when the Vedas were written.". I believe the "it" would be the Upanishads rather than the Vedas, which appeared in India around 1500 BCE, and seem to have had an even earlier origin. ~2026-38230-18 (talk) 00:23, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. This date is taken from Perrett 2016. I checked Grayling 2019, who gives a broader timeframe. To be on the safe side, I changed the timeframe to "second and first millennia BCE" and I replaced "written" with "composed" since the earliest versions were only orally transmitted. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:24, 5 July 2026 (UTC)