User:Christopher H. Moller/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * "Environmental Ethics"


 * Article Evaluation
 * Another article I would like to work on is the article “Environmental Ethics”, which has a Start-class rating. I selected this article because it does not have enough written about the other positions of environmental ethics, such as sentientism and holism, besides anthropocentrism. Although there are other environmental ethical viewpoints, I am most familiar with the two mentioned viewpoints, alongside anthropocentrism, which is discussed a lot in the article. Because of the familiarity, I think I will not only add more to the “Anthropocentrism” section, but also I will possibly create two sections for the other mentioned viewpoints, or elaborate on the two mentioned viewpoints and dovetail them with what has been already mentioned about Peter Singer’s work and the other work in the section “Marshall’s Categories” in its subsection “Libertarian extension”. I will do the three mentioned viewpoints since I am most familiar with them from environmental ethics class, and that I have done reading on them on my own time.


 * Sources
 * Rodogno, Raffaele. "Sentientism, Wellbeing, and Environmentalism." Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 84-99. Ebscohost. 29 January 2020. https://libproxy.albany.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pif&AN=PHL2149310&site=ehost-live

Option 2

 * Article title
 * "The Will"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The "Will (philosophy)" article has a Start-class rating. I selected this article consequent to it having three glaring problems, two of its sections are barely filled with content, which are the "Kant" and "Rosseau" sections, and the “Rosseau” as well the “Classical Philosophy” sections do not have any citations. Because of the lack of information, I have been researching the critics and supporters of their views of the will to fill in the information gap about the will, when I start writing the article, besides filling in the citation gaps where they are located.


 * Sources
 * Thompson, Michael J. "Autonomy and Common Good: Interpreting Rosseau's General Will." International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 25, no. 2. pp. 266-285. Ebscohost. 4 February 2020. https://libproxy.albany.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rlh&AN=122446692&site=ehost-live

Option 3

 * Article title
 * "Transcendentalism"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The final article I would like to contribute to is "Transcendentalism". I selected this article as a result of it having the potential to be elaborated more on, specifically in the sections the "Importance of Nature", "Transcendental Knowledge", "Individualism", and "Criticism", and having some experience reading material from Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In addition, there are citations needed in certain previously written areas that I could add, to ensure that plagiarism is not tainting the article.


 * Sources
 * Ames, Roger T. “Against Individuality, For Individuality: The Emersonian Henry Rosemont, Jr.” Philosophy East and West, vol. 69, no.1, January 2019, pp. 7-20. Accessed 7 February 2020.  https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.albany.edu/article/724190/pdf

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