Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy/Language/archive

Key articles for Wikipedia 1.0
Hello! We at the Work via WikiProjects team for Wikipedia 1.0 would like you to identify the "key articles" from your project that should be included in offline releases of Wikipedia based on their importance, regardless of quality. We will use that information to assess which articles should be nominated for Version 1.0 (not yet open) and later versions. Hopefully it will also help you identify which articles are the most important for the project to work on. As well, please add to your Philosophy/Religion WikiProject article table any articles of high quality. If you are interested in developing a worklist such as this one for your WikiProject, or having a bot generate a worklist automatically for you, please contact us. Please feel free to post your suggestions right here. Thanks! Walkerma 05:54, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Here's a preliminary go at it:


 * sense and reference
 * theory of descriptions
 * connotation and denotation
 * Reference
 * Direct reference ?
 * Mediated reference theory
 * semantics
 * pragmatics
 * meaning
 * family resemblance
 * truth conditional semantics
 * possible worlds semantics
 * inferential role semantics
 * ordinary language philosophy
 * Gottlob Frege
 * Bertrand Russell
 * Saul Kripke
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * Philosophical Investigations
 * anaphora
 * rigid designator
 * verificationism
 * Michael Dummett
 * Donald Davidson
 * speech act theory
 * Naming and Necessity
 * analytic/synthetic distinction
 * W.V.O. Quine


 * Thanks a lot! Pretty busy now, but I'll add those into the table in the next few days. Feel free to edit them there too. Walkerma 06:35, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, it's now entered in to this table. Please add to this as you see fit, and please add any assessments that you can.  Thanks, Walkerma 04:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

On Nothing
The article on Nothing is very poorly written and unsourced, and the language section could use a complete overhaul. I figure this WikiProject could be a good place to look for some insightful editing to at least that section of the article. Thanks! --Psyphics ΨΦ 17:05, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Meaning (philosophy of language)
The article Meaning (philosophy of language) is flagged for deletion. It was previsued inaccurately called linguistic meaning to the annoyance the linguists. It is variously cricised as redundant, PV and OR. --Philogo 00:47, 30 January 2009 (UTC)