WEB RESOURCES
PHILOSOPHY ON THE INTERNET
A list of general guides to philosophy now available on the Web, containing information in a wide range of categories including: Philosophers and Philosophies, Philosophy Associations and Societies; Philosophy Journals; Philosophy Teaching Resources; Philosophy Etexts; Philosophy Bibliographies; Philosophy Mailing Lists; Philosophy Newsgroups; Philosophy Projects; Philosophy Preprints; Philosophy Jobs, Philosophy Departments, Conferences, Reading Lists, and Bibliographies, and specialist subject areas, such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. This page includes links to well established and widely consulted guides such as Bjorn's Guide to Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers' Guide to Online Philosophy Resources, Tom Stone's Episteme Links, and Peter Suber's Guide to Philosophy on the Internet, but also to lesser known but highly useful guides such as Hopkins Philosophy Page, Infinite Ink's Philosophy Pages, Peter King's Philosophy Around the World, Philosophy Sites on the Internet, the Tanner Philosophy Library, the Ultimate Philosophy Page, and the Window: Philosophy on the Internet.
Links to lexicons of philosophical names and terms as well as glossaries with a more particular focus, e.g., dictionaries of religious terms, philosophy of mind, Buddhist terms, and Kant's technical terms as well as links to the Stanford Enceyclopedia of Philosophy, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Saint-Andre's The Ism Book, and Downes' Guide to Logical Fallacies.
This is a guide to library research in the field of Philosophy, prepared by Reference Librarian Judy Fertig. It contains a selective list of resources that may be helpful
for getting started. Please consult a reference librarian for additional assistance. Links appearing on this page are to catalog records in LOUIS(the online catalog of the Brandeis University Libraries) including reference tools such as books, electronic indexes and abstractsand full text resources. Internet sites and other research resources are also indicated by highlighted titles which are active links.
Hippias is a peer-reviewed search engine that provides access to philosophy-related resources on the World-Wide Web. Quality is controlled by a system of hyperlinked internet sites which are managed by qualified professionals who serve as the associate editors of the project. The same procedures that govern quality also serve to limit the scope of Hippias to resources of interest to philosophers.
Numerous links to philosophical works online, including works by Aristotle, Bentham, Berkeley, Descartes, Dewey, Emerson, Hegel, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, Machiavelli, Mill, Plato, Rousseau, Socrates, and Spinoza. Links to such sites as the Digital Text Project, which provides access to a range of philosophical texts online in an easy-to-read format, ALEX, which helps users to find and retrieve the full text of documents on the Internet, and currently indexes over 2000 books and shorter texts by author and title, incorporating texts from Project Gutenberg, Wiretap, the On-Line Book Initiative,and the Eris system at Virginia, the Internet Classics Archive, a beautifully-presented, searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation), and the Minerva Text Archive, an archive for philosophical texts on the Internet that can be accessed via a simple web interface, searched on keywords, titles, and authors, and downlaoded for free.
Links to electronic journals listed alphabetically (A through K) that
publish articles and reviews on the Web, including, for examples, links to the Electronic
Journal of Analytic Philosophy dedicated to the publication of articles and reviews relevant
to analytic philosophy both as a historical movement and as a current program,
Connexions, a web-based journal of cognitive science, which, unlike traditional journals,
is not a showcase for finished work but a forum for the discussion of work-in-progress,
and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review which publishes reviews of current work in all areas
of classical studies, with the opportunity for authors' replies, discussion of earlier reviews,
and well-conceived columns of opinion on the current classical scholarly scene. Here too
you will find information on subscription and the availability of back issues for most of the
journals listed.
Links to electronic journals listed alphabetically (L through Z) that
publish articles and reviews on the Web, including the Logic Journal of the IGPL which
publishes papers in the areas of pure and applied logic, the Metaphysical Review which
prints essays on the foundation of Physics, the Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic that
covers all aspects of philosophical logic, the Online Journal of Ethics, and Psycoloquy, a
refereed electronic journal sponsored on an experimental basis by the American
Psychological Association and currently estimated to reach a readership of 20,000.
Links to sites that provide the most recent updates of electronic journals of philosophy
online as well as providing searchable data-bases of the growing number of scholarly
articles and print journals now distributed and available on the World Wide Web as well as
to sites containing reviews of the current electronic journals and newsletters.
A complete list of journals in philosophy and related dsiciplines with subscription information, submission requirements, and email addresses.
This Internet Search engine was developed and is maintained by Joe Lau at the University of Hong Kong. Its aim is to make it easier to access those sites where papers in philosophy can now be found. "Although many philosophy papers and preprints are now available on the web," as Lau notes, "they are difficult to find and there is no easy way to
know when new ones appear. The purpose of this directory is to make such information available, by providing a central location where authors can register their on-line papers easily. [And] others can check here to see what is available, without having to look through other people's websites themselves. This is primarily a page of links that point to papers available elsewhere and no papers are stored locally."
Here you will find a list of individuals who have put their own papers in philosophy and related areas available online. Chalmers' list emphasizes philosophy, but includes a number of online papers from individuals in related fields: in physics, mathematics, and psychology. Chalmers has recently divided his online list into the following catgories, making it easier to search for a paper in a particular area or branch of philosophy: (1) Philosophy of mind (esp. consciousness), (2) Philosophy of mind (esp. artificial intelligence and cognitive science), (3) Philosophy of mind (miscellaneous), (4) Philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology, (5) Philosophy of science, (6) Philosophy of logic and mathematics, (7) Philosophy of religion, (8) Value theory (ethics, social/political philosophy, aesthetics), (9) History of philosophy, (10) "Philosophical" cognitive scientists, (11) "Philosophical" physicists & mathematicians, and (12) Other interesting individuals.
Online papers from members of the NYU philosophy department, including
"Anti-reductionism Slaps Back" and "How to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness" by Ned Block; "What the Externalist Can Know A Priori" by Paul Boghossian; "Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It" by Ronald Dworkin and "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief", by Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson; "Which undecidable mathematical sentences have determinate truth values?" by Hartrey Field; "Truth in Action" by John Gibbons; "Justice and Nature" and "Concealment and Exposure" by Thomas Nagel; "Do doctors undertreat pain?" and "Parenthood: Three Concepts and a Principle" by William Ruddick; "Modal Bloopers: Why Believable Impossibilities Are Necessary" and "Unbeggable Questions" by Roy Sorenson; "Living High and Letting Die" and "Contextual Analysis in Ethics" by Peter Unger.
Links to Sites containing information on philosophers (A to K) throughout history. Many of the sites contain not only biographical data, but links to online texts and translations, commentaries, and summaries of a particular philosopher's ideas. Here is information on an array of diverse thinkers, including, Adorno, Aristotle, Augustine, Aurelius, Bacon, Bakunin, Bentham, Boethius, Chomsky, Cicero, Comte, Condorcet, Confucius (with links to the Confucian Analects, the Doctrine Of The Mean, and the Great Learning), Copernicus, Darwin, Davidson, De Beauvoir, Deleuze, Dennett, Derrida, Descartes, Dewey, Diogenes, Epicurus, Foucault, Frege, Freud, Gadamer, Galileo, Gandhi, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, James, Jung, Kant, Keynes, Kierkegaard, Kropotkin, and Kuhn, to mention a few.
More information on an array of thinkers throughout history with links to their works,
commentaries, and summaries, arranged alphabetically, here L through Z: including, to
mention a fair number, Levinas, Locke, Machiavelli, Maritain, Marx, Meinong, Merleau-
Ponty, Mill, Nietzsche, Otto, Parmenides, Pascal, Pierce, Plato, Popper, Proudhon,
Quine, Rand, Reid, Rousseau, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Sellars, Smith,
Steiner, Stirner, Socrates, Spinoza, Thoreau, Turing, Vico, Voltaire, Weil, Whitehead, and
Wittgenstein.
Here you will find links to directories currently available on the Web which contain summaries of the life and work of many of the major figures in Western Philosophy as well as some of the major schools of philosophical thought and historical periods. Infomation, too, on contemporary philosophers as well as on a number of thinkers in related fields, such as information on a number of great thinkers in mathematics.
Here you will links to home pages of professional philosophers and graduate students as well as e-mail addresses.
Here you will find an alphabetical listing of those philosophers whose pictures are currently available online. By clicking on a name, you will be connected to an image or image gallery, containing image(s) of the philosopher of that name. Among the list of "mug shots," you will find pictures of such philosophically inclined persons as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Bacon, Descartes, Pascal, Berekeley, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein. As it's said: "you've read the book, now see what they look like."
Links to a range of resources (available to students of philosophy) on the Web, including sites on the nature and structure of philosophical argument, advice on constructing an argument as well as on reading and evaluating philosophical texts and writing a good paper in philosophy. Also, a survival guide for students of philosophy from the University of Edinburgh providing an overview of the study of philosophy, information on how to read logical notation, and a lexicon of philosophical terms, discussions of logical fallacies and ways to avoid committing them, and a link to UMI's Dissertations Abstracts database Also: sites which strive to answer the question "Why Major in Philosophy?" as well as, once this question has been answered in the affirmative and rendered moot, the question "What Can You Do with a Philosophy Degree?"
A useful listing of Graduate Schools in Philosophy, catalogued according to Areas of Strength, providing easy and quick access to the homepages of each Department and admissions requirements for each of the schools listed. The site is maintained by
A ranking of philosophy graduate programs by Brian Leiter, called,The Philosophical Gourmet Report, 1998-2000, which includes, besides the Rankings, A Breakdown of Programs by Areas of Strength, information on M.A. Programs in Philosophy and the Study of Philosophy in Law Schools and Top Law Schools. Leiter has also assembled useful information on Applying to Graduate School, and also provides useful Admissions Data as well as A Realistic Perspective on Graduate Study. The Report also seeks to offer the latest Faculty News: Moves, Retirements, etc. as well as data on Recent Job Placement in Philosophy.
STOA is published by The Center for Philosophical Education: "CPE was established in 1997 by the Department of Philosophy at Santa Barbara City College to foster a broader understanding of and deeper appreciation for the academic discipline of philosophy within both the undergraduate and general populations. To these ends, The Center publishes STOA as a forum for celebrating and nurturing the philosophical growth of undergraduate students in addition to providing the general reader with access to a range of quality academic writings from novice philosophers. The journal has a particular interest in publishing undergraduate papers from a wide range of countries around the world, thereby fostering cooperation between scholars and students from a variety of backgrounds."
The American Philosophical Association Online. The APA "is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and
scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline." The site contains, among other things, up-to-date information on Association Meetings as well as Meeting Schedules for the Eastern, Central, and Pacific Association Meetings, Paper Submission Guidelines
Homepages of Members, Department Web Sites, Data on the Profession | Issues in the Profession, Jobs for Philosophers, Opportunities & Resources for Philosophers, Conferences & Calls for Papers, Grants & Fellowships, Prizes & Awards, and links to additional Web Resources.
A variety of additional philosophy resources, including links to such diverse resources as the APA's (American Philosophy Association) page providing links to sites from which philosophy-related software can be downloaded, discussion channels where people talk philosophy, philosophy crossword puzzles, philosophy book discussion groups, the Meaning of Life, a site where a number of opinions on this reclacitrant issue are on offer, Philosopher All-Stars, a small image gallery of philosophers in trading-card format with pictures and a brief biography, and the Philosophical Calendar which posts a new philosophical thought, each day, usually in the area of contemporary epistemology and metaphysics.
Here you will find everything from Philosophy Lightbulb Jokees, the Causes of Death of Some of the Great Philosophers, and various versions of Proof That P (and More Proofs That P) to the Ten Reasons God Would Not Have Received Tenure, the Top Ten
Philosophical Questions Answered, and the Jean Paul Sartre Cookbook as well as comics and cartoons with philosophical content and more,
much, much more.
More funny stuff, this time from David Chalmers, who also, if the philosophical jokes do
not tickle you, provides links to humor in economics, mathematics, physics, psychology,
and religion.
The Eighth Edition of The Philosophical Lexicon as prepared, edited and refined by Daniel Dennett, contains 82 new entries in addition to the 163 entries from The Seventh Edition which are also contained here. The Lexicon seeks to remedy the lamentable state of affairs that, as Dennett points out, "the pantheon of philosophy has contributed previous little to the English language, compared with other fields. What can philosophy offer to compare with the galvanizing volts, ohms and watts of physics . . ?" Philosophers "speak of merely platonic affairs, and Gilbert Ryle has given his name to a measure of beer (roughly three-quarters of a pint), but . . . the latter is restricted to the patois used [only] in certain quarters of Oxford. There are, of course, the legion of pedantic terms ending in "ian" and "ism", such as "neo-Augustinian Aristotelianism", . . . but these terms have never been, nor deserved to be, a living part of the language." The Eighth Edition, like its predecessors, seeks to remedy all this by introducing a set of new terms that could "become an important part of your vocabulary, to the point that you will wonder how philosophy ever proceeded without them."
This page contains links to sites with information, reference materials, and online discussions on various topics in (primarily) applied ethics such as animal rights, abortion, and euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, environmental ethics, business ethics, organ transplantation and genetic engineering.
This page contains links to sites with information on political philosophers and theorists
and to sites on the different schools of political thought as well as on specific political
topics such as human rights and world hunger, including links to the Foundation of
Political Theory Section of the APSA (American Political Science Foundation), the
Communitarianism Open Site, DIANA: International Human Rights Database, John Elster
Page, Human Rights Internet, Human Rights Web, the HungerWeb, the International
Economics and Philosophy Society, Lycos: Political Philosophy, PeaceNet, Political
Philosophy/Political Theory, the Systematic Study of Human Rights, United Nations
Human Rights Website, and the WWW Virtual Library: Political Science.
Links to sites with information on aesthetics and philosophy of art: articles, conferences, book reviews and aestehtics resources: online bibliographies on the visual arts, film, photography, literature, and music.
Traditional academic publishing is a slow conversation. A year to get your idea
into final form, a year to get it accepted somewhere, a year for it to appear. Then
a year for anyone to get a reply into final form, another year for them to get it
accepted, another for it to appear. Life is too short. Reviews in Moral and Political Philosophy is the creation of the Philosophy Department at Brown University and it aims "to publish short but substantial reviews of articles that have appeared in the last six months," in an effort to enhance "the value of ordinary journal articles by providing an immediate, high quality, and fully public critical notice not available in any other form.
Curent Issue has a special report on The World Congress of Philosophy, including interviews: Jaegwon Kim & Sydney Shoemaker talk about mind/body issues; Arthur Fine answers questions on mischief and the philosophy of science; Martha Nussbaum explains how philosophy might aid the cultivation of virtue; and Richard Swinburne argues (again) that a good God would tolerate the existence of evil. Also:
Thomas Simon on injustice; David Hume and John Locke snapshots; Simon Wlater on The Millennium Dome; and the concluding part of Jeff Mason's "Sartre's Existential Humanism."
This project seeks to provide a forum for electronically mediated scholarly discussion of philosophical works. The University of Chicago Philosophy Project contains several philosophical discussions between small groups of participants. Each group is run by a moderator, who selects the participants for her group and organizes the discussion.
The moderator for each group is chosen by the administrators of the University of Chicago Philosophy Project.
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November 27, 1998
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