Expert Skills

[Gollum]

Originally Posted by nanoboy

Socialism might be considered a Philosophy skill, though I've never liked the way GURPS handles Philosophy. (The actual academic study of philosophy involves learning about reason, logic, ethics, etc. GURPS treats it as a specialization in something like Marxism or Epicureanism.)

I believe that GURPS authors, for the Philosophy skill - as for the History one - are taking their inspiration from university. Of course, philosophy involves reason, logic, ethics, etc., but when you learn it at university, you must specialized in a given period (medieval philosophy, contemporary philosophy...), a given subject (epistemology, moral philosophy...) or even a specific author (Husserl, Spinoza, Marx...).

And some teachers are very good in their specialization but quite bad outside of this topic. Philosophy is so broad that nobody can know everything. Ways of thinking even differ widely form one author to the other.