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WikiProject Philosophy Deletion Discussions

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Articles for deletion

Social Spirit

Social Spirit (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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An essay full of WP:OR presenting a novel in non-encyclopedic and often unclear language. The sources don't validate "social spirit" as a unique concept in philosophy; instead, this essay appears to represent the author's own views. Given a lack of BEFORE references to "social spirit" in the context of this article I can't figure out a way to improve this that would allow it to stay. Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:59, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Philosophy and Spirituality. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:14, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Matthew W. McKeon

Matthew W. McKeon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Does not appear to meet WP:PROF or WP:AUTHOR, top cited work appears to only have 20 citations in scholar, and no reviews on any published books. Psychastes (talk) 00:42, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Delete per nom and WP:NPROF. Appears that the article's original author created a number of articles for various philosophy professors at Michigan State University of questionable notability. Longhornsg (talk) 03:03, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Authors, Philosophy, Connecticut, and Michigan. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:15, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
• Delete. My off-wiki experience evaluating philosophers is that it's kind of strange. They often don't have many journal citations, nor books with many reviews, but the other philosophers in the same subdiscipline still have a strong idea who the important ones are, and I don't know how to guess that from the public record. In the case of McKeon, we definitely have nothing in the citation record nor the article that would suggest notability. Searching for reviews of his book The Concept of Logical Consequence is confusing because of Etchemendy's very notable and well cited book with the same title. I found only one review, by Núñez Puertas in Apuntes Filosóficos [1], far from enough even to justify an article on the book instead of its author. He does appear to have another book, Arguments and Reason-Giving, for which I found no reviews at all. In the absence of access to whatever information the philosophers use to evaluate their own, I think we have to go on what we can see for ourselves, and that's not very much. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:22, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
• Delete. I could not find anything that supports WP:NPROF or WP:NAUTHOR, with no reviews found on JSTOR. I simply cannot find any strong arguments in support of notability. --hroest 15:13, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Frederick Rauscher

Frederick Rauscher (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:NPROF or WP:NAUTHOR. Longhornsg (talk) 03:04, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

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• Keep. Reasonable citations in GS for philosophy. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:42, 9 May 2024 (UTC).
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Illinois and Pennsylvania. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:13, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
• Keep. Meets WP:NAUTHOR. His book Naturalism and Realism in Kant's Ethics is the subject of multiple in-depth reviews in reliable sources.[2][3][4] I already noted this three years ago when declining a PROD so it really should have been checked before nominating. – Joe (talk) 14:42, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
• Keep. Joe is right that he meets WP:NAUTHOR. Qflib (talk) 18:30, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Categories for deletion

This is a collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Logic. It is one of many deletion lists coordinated by WikiProject Deletion sorting. Anyone can help maintain the list on this page.

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Removing a closed AfD discussion

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Further information

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