On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:09, Peter Jacobi <peter_jacobi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Ryan, All,
(Regarding #51, [[Peter Singer]])
Actually, I haven't looked at this article in
awhile since I quit
editing Wikipedia. It looks like the balance is quite good, as far as
your philosophy articles go. If anything, the discussion of his
arguments on infanticide may be too prominent. But there are no
serious problems that I see.
Have you compared the German articles (at least using online translation)? It's not
an ivory tower philosophy discussion, it got a lively real world controversy with
activists from the disability rights movements and other (mostly far left) organisations
trying and often succeeding to prevent Singer speaking in Germany (and elsewhere). A
stream of articles and books published against and in defense of Singer?
And while I have no overview about the situation in the US, there seem to
be parallels, e.g.
http://www.thearclink.org/news/article.asp?ID=426
Peter
The controversy about Singer's ideas has definitely spilled outside of
philosophy journals (where emotions don't run so hot). I don't read
German, but the article on en.wiki covers that controversy pretty
well, from what I can tell. I'm not sure what problem you are
suggesting en.Wikipedia has, or what should be done about it, on this
point.
- causa sui