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FAC of Agnosticism

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Draft translation request: Michael Hauskeller

Hello, I am writing to openly disclose that I am the subject of this request (Professor Michael Hauskeller, Head of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool). I am looking for a volunteer editor to help establish an English Wikipedia biographical page for me. A well-sourced article about my work already exists on the German Wikipedia at de:Michael Hauskeller, and I meet the platform's academic notability guidelines (WP:PROF). To make the process easier and fully compliant with community standards, an objective, neutrally worded draft has been prepared with full citation markups and my correct publication bibliography. I have pasted the complete wiki-text markup below inside the drop-down box. Would an independent volunteer editor be willing to review this text, move it into the draft space, or publish it? Thank you very much for your time and assistance.

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Michael Hauskeller
Born	1964 (age 61–62) Mönchengladbach, West Germany
Education
Alma mater	University of Bonn, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Main interests	Ethics, meta-ethics, applied ethics, transhumanism, philosophy of art, existentialism

Michael Hauskeller (born 1964) is a German-British philosopher, author, and academic. He currently serves as a Professor of Philosophy and the Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. His primary research interests focus on practical philosophy, meta-ethics, applied ethics, the critique of transhumanist philosophies, human enhancement, and existential themes concerning the meaning of life and death. == Education and early career == Hauskeller was born in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He studied philosophy at the University of Bonn, completing his doctorate in 1994 under the supervision of Gernot Böhme at Technische Universität Darmstadt. He achieved his habilitation at Darmstadt in 2001. In 2003, Hauskeller relocated to the United Kingdom, where he joined the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. He later served as an Associate Professor and Head of Department at Exeter before moving to the University of Liverpool in 2018 to take up his current position as Chair and Head of Philosophy. == Philosophical work == Hauskeller’s extensive publication history primarily investigates what constitutes human flourishing and the ethical boundaries of technological intervention. Since 2007, a major component of his research has targeted the philosophical assumptions of transhumanism. In works such as Better Humans? (2013) and Mythologies of Transhumanism (2016), he interrogates transhumanist goals like artificial self-design, radical life extension, and the total eradication of suffering, analyzing them from a skeptical standpoint that defends the intrinsic value of natural human vulnerability and limitation. His later work expanded into the existential dimensions of philosophy, focusing on the historical and contemporary analytical debates regarding the connection between human mortality and meaningfulness in life. == Selected bibliography == === Authored books === * Vom Jammer des Lebens: Einführung in Schopenhauers Ethik (C.H. Beck, 1998). ISBN 978-3406420740 * Versuch über die Grundlagen der Moral (C.H. Beck, 2001). ISBN 978-3406479786 * Ich denke, aber bin ich? Phantastische Reisen durch die Philosophie (C.H. Beck, 2003). ISBN 978-3406510700 * Mögliche Welten: neue phantastische Reisen durch die Philosophie (C.H. Beck, 2005). ISBN 978-3406528354 * Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life: Speculations on an Eco-Ethical Principle (Ashgate, 2007). ISBN 978-0754660446 * Was ist Kunst? Positionen der Ästhetik von Platon bis Danto (C.H. Beck, 2013). ISBN 978-3406653117 * Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project (Acumen, 2013). ISBN 978-1844655571 * Sex and the Posthuman Condition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). ISBN 978-1137355843 * Mythologies of Transhumanism: Three Common Metaphors We Live By (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). ISBN 978-3319397405 * The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). ISBN 978-1350031333 * The Things That Really Matter: Philosophical Conversations on the Cornerstones of Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). ISBN 978-3031123900 * Meaning in Life: A Subjectivist Account (Routledge, 2025). ISBN 978-1032851044 * Dialogues on the Meaning of Life (Routledge, 2025). ISBN 978-1032851020 === Edited volumes === * The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (Edited with T.D. Philbeck and C.D. Carbonell; Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). ISBN 978-1137430311 * Moral Enhancement: Critical Perspectives (Edited with L. Coyne; Cambridge University Press, 2018). ISBN 978-1108465052 * Death and Meaning (Routledge, 2021). ISBN 978-1032128719 == References ==

MichaelHauskeller (talk) 13:57, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:International Society for Krishna Consciousness#Requested move 21 July 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:International Society for Krishna Consciousness#Requested move 21 July 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — EarthDude (Talk) 10:42, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

FAC of Premise

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Hypermodernism

The articles at Hypermodernism (art) and Hypermodernity have no inline citations, and they seem like they should be merged. Would be great for somebody with some experience with working on this type of article to take a look. Dreamyshade (talk) 01:38, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Luddite#Requested move 18 July 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Luddite#Requested move 18 July 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. –Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 11:37, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Suggestions for more articles

I have been updating the various "philosophies by region" in Europe. This has made me aware of a number of articles I think we should have on the philosophical side of wikipedia. Allow me to add more if I remember more.

via antiqua and via moderna as ways to say realism v. nominalism

'Mosaic physics' trying to apply physics to the Bible (Mosaic as in Moses)

"Clear and distinct ideas". Relevant to both Descartes and Peirce, yet this concept has no article all its own.

In reviewing the article premise, I noticed for some reason existential import is part of empty domain rather than its own article. Whether empty domain has something to do with it or not, it deserves its own article.

Husserl's book Logical Investigations has no article. I made one.

None of Pierre Charron's books have articles, eg Les Trois Vérités

A number of important philosophers have articles on the foreign language wikipedias which are lacking on the English wiki, such as Gottfried Ploucquet and August Friedrich Bök. Ploucquet is the figure between Leibniz and Lambert in the little bit of German logic at the time. Jules Lagneau was a major French "spiritualist" philosopher.

The German Thomists John of Lichtenberg, Heinrich of Lubeck, and Gerhard and Johann Sterngasse.

English emotion man Erroll Bedford.

American New Realist Walter Taylor Marvin

Swiss German dude Johann Konrad Pfenninger

Some articles I made myself were Guy De Bruès and Thomas Wizenmann and Thomas of Buckingham. If you can expand them, please do. Obviously, I don't know very much about them. There was an influential Dutch Cartesian with the name Tobias Andreae 200 years before the painter. He taught Clauberg, who is the link between Descartes and German philosophers. Cake (talk) 17:31, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

One of these days I'll actually get off my ass and write Overcoding and Microfascism to improve our representation of Deleuzean concepts. Simonm223 (talk) 17:34, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

If you are familiar with Deleuze then I would ask you to review any mention of him on the French philosophy article. I speak English, so I am no continental philosophy expert. Not sure what "duration of difference-in-itself" is getting at but I dare not delete it. Cake (talk) 17:36, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Pacifism in France-request for assement

Hi,

I would like an assessment of Pacifism in France as this is new to project.

Thanks in advance. Equivalent-Text2598 (talk) 16:16, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Since I have been doing the whole history of French philosophy, I am focused on the pre-1914 section. It reads "Some have argued that oath(s) of allegiance were a particular point of contention". This is arguably "weasel words" with the "Some have argued". While I don't think it is bad in all cases, this seems to call for elaboration, even if in a footnote. Opposition to oaths makes me think of the Anabaptists. Pierre Widmer's article mentions a community of Anabaptists in Alsace. Not sure if any of that helps, but it seems working looking into. Cake (talk) 19:34, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

OK, that seems useful, thanks. To be honest, I don't really know what to add in terms of info as I really do not know these philosophic ideas in much detail. Could you please advice on centres of research in order to expand this or in order to write a useful footnote. Thanks for your advice. Equivalent-Text2598 (talk) 20:55, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

I am no expert myself, but I will see if I find anything. I just have some familiarity with the Mennonites. If you read the anabaptist article, you will see they did not believe in taking oaths. As I recall, they argued we should tell the truth all the time. So they don't swear to God in court to tell the truth. They think that means you are lying outside of court. Everybody else thought it meant they were lying in court. Desiderius Erasmus was the Anabaptists' favorite philosopher, at least of the canonical names in the history of philosophy, so excluding Menno Simons and so on. Balthasar Hubmaier was influential in Germany. I have not run into who led the Anabaptists in France, if anyone. And that is assuming that is what the article is talking about with oath-breaking. Pierre Widmer is the only person on wikipedia in the category "French anabaptists". Unfortunately, it mentions Alsace, which is a neat place I have (Catholic) ancestors from, but which I often find confusing whether to identify as Swiss, German, or French. Cake (talk) 21:10, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Only emphasizing the point, the Anabaptists in Alsace I can find are Germans like Pilgrim Marpeck and Melchior Hoffman, or Swiss with German names like Hans Reist and Jakob Ammann. See this gameo article. While they probably influenced French pacifism by being in Alsace, I imagine the wikipedia article wants French names to reference. The gameo article states Philippe-André Grandidier (1752-1787) was a historian who writes about the Anabaptists in Alsace. Cake (talk) 21:21, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

This is one interesting article about pacifists in France during the Revolution. Cake (talk) 21:46, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your advice, I have added a revision based on Quakers during the revolution as well as applications for the exception to oath taking. Equivalent-Text2598 (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

The League of Peace and Freedom should probably be mentioned too, at least it seems to me. It seems more mainstream than the Quakers, and though Swiss, it seems to be Swiss-French. Cake (talk) 03:37, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Montyon Prize

The two editors above this comment show an interest in French philosophy. So let me flag that the article for the Montyon Prize has been asking for more information for nearly 20 years now. Cake (talk) 18:09, 11 August 2026 (UTC)