Talk:Chapman Cohen

Request for Comments
There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.

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Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 17:58, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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Marxism
I've restored a quote from an article discussing Cohen's science popularisation from a Marxist point of view. I think it's useful and interesting as one of the few independent discussions of his life and work, and contrary to the view of the person who has now removed it twice, it is careful to provide a balanced assessment of Cohen's position and doesn't make wild allegations. It should stay pending a fuller write-up of his life, work and standpoint. Dannyno (talk) 09:27, 27 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I've put back the Stanley source in the bibliography after it was removed (accompanied by some personal abuse) by an anonymous editor on political grounds (they personally feel "Marxist" to be an insult, but of course their personal feelings are not the point of wikipedia). The particular quote from the article (which is from the perfectly reputable source Minerva, a journal published by Springer) - which by the way I did not introduce into the article, as far as I remember - discussed Cohen's work in terms of socialist materialism, but without reaching wild conclusions.  It seems to me that Cohen was not Marxist, but it also seems to me that it ought to be possible to discuss whether he was or was not and that such discussions could reasonably be included in this article.  However, maybe the particular quote was not the most helpful one.  --Dannyno (talk) 22:58, 8 January 2017 (UTC)