Walter Vermeir wrote:
I find this article kind of weird. Larry Sangers takes issue with the
current state of the philosophy articles, some of which he started,
claiming they've gone backwards. However, the philosophy articles Larry
Sanger started were, at the time he wrote them, by and large, utter
crap, essentially cut and pasted from his lecture notes, filled with
colloquialisms, outright biases, and no attempt to make them into
paragraphs or any sort of coherent style. They're now mostly at least
decent. Compare the abysmal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism/Larry%27s_text --- which
doesn't even mention the existence of non-reductive physicalism,
currently the most active research area! --- with the current
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism, which at least gets its basic
definitions reasonably close to correct.
It's also odd that Larry is said to have "co-founded" Wikipedia, which
AFAIK he did not.
-Mark