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Philosophy
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Large, central sites:
- Philosophy
Education Resource Guide—assembled by SmartScholar,
this helpful page runs the gamut from study aids, teaching aids,
philosophy blogs and podcasts, etc.
- PhilEvents—a
site listing hundreds of scheduled philosophy conferences
- Philosophy
Updates – a Google Groups discussion board, for updates on
conferences, etc.
- American Philosophical Association
-- the home page for the APA has publications available, a directory of
addresses of philosophers and departments, and links to many other sites.
- Guide to Philosophy
on the Internet -- assembled by Peter Suber,
a professor of philosophy at Earlham College (in Indiana); although he
stopped updating it in 2003, this site still has links to many other
sites, on everything from pages about particular philosophers to pages
about how to write a philosophy paper.
General reference sites:
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
-- a helpful source of background materials on many issues and thinkers,
with entries arranged alphabetically.
- The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- some useful entries, arranged
alphabetically; most entries are yet to be completed.
- In
their Crash Course series, Hank and John Green have produced about forty 10-minute
videos on topics in philosophy.
- Garth
Kemerling's A Dictionary of Philosophical
Terms and Names -- short entries on a very large collection of terms
and names; includes links to other philosophical reference works.
- Bjorn's Guide to
Philosophy -- a good site for background on many thinkers in
the history of philosophy; maintained by Bjorn Christensson,
an undergraduate in
- Yahoo's page of
philosophy links -- links categorized into many subjects.
- The Perseus Project -- a
guide from Tufts University to classical Greek and Roman philosophy, art,
literature, etc.
- The Ism Book --
Peter Saint-Andre's very complete and brief descriptions of just about any
ism you'd care to know about.
- Sean
Cearley's Various
'-ism's -- links to others' web pages about various
"-isms" (e.g., deism, existentialism; definition of many
theories, off of Cearly's "One-Stop
Philosophy Shop."
- Philosophy:
An Online Resource Guide – links ranging from for beginners to
archived texts to philosophy for children
Sites exclusively for original philosophy:
- EJAP --
the Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy is edited by Craig DeLancey of Indiana University's Department of
Philosophy.
- Minerva -- a refereed
journal of philosophy, edited by Dr. Stephen Thornton; includes a helpful
list of other electronic journals in philosophy.
Course materials:
- S. Marc Cohen's lecture
notes -- syllabi and helpful lecture notes specializing in
topics and thinkers in Ancient Greek philosophy.
Ethics sites:
- Larry
Hinman's Ethics Updates --
includes many discussions of ethical issues and various aspects of ethical
theories, including bibliographic information; also includes links to some
primary texts in the history of philosophy.
Zeno of Elea:
- Quick
-- a biography and quick discussion of the paradoxes, from those at
- Involved
-- an account of some of the paradoxes for the more mathematically
conversant; also from
Plato:
- Plato and His Dialogues
-- good, comprehensive site on Plato, assembled by Bernard Suzanne.
- Cyberspace Devoted
to the Study of Classical Athens -- authored by Christopher Planeaux, this contains a good biography and history
about Plato.
- The Socrates Project --
from
- Outline
of the Euthyphro
-- from Cynthia Freeland of the
- Outline
of the Meno -- also from Cynthia Freeland of
the
Aristotle:
- The "CAT"egories -- from Cynthia Freeland
of the
Hellenistic Philosophy and Neoplatonism:
- Ecole Initiative article on Stoicism
-- an excellent account of Stoicism; from the
- The Stoics on
fatalism -- Cynthia Freeland of the
- Epicurus and Epicurean
Philosophy -- assembled by Vincent Cook, a good site about
Epicureanism.
- Sextus
Empiricus -- a detailed site about
this thinker, and about the history of skepticism
- On Hypatia -- a small site
Immanuel Kant:
- Dr.
Steve Palmquist's Kant on the Web
page, from his site at the Department of Religion and Philosophy
at Hong Kong Baptist University
Utilitarians:
- Utilitarianism
Resources -- links to articles and full texts of classic
utilitarianism; maintained by David Pearce.
- Bentham R.I.P.
-- a description and photo of Bentham, by Paul Dourish.
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
- Christiaan
Stange’s Dostoevsky Research
Station – a thorough collection of material and links, including
everything from articles about his work to pictures of his gravesite and
the correct pronunciation of his name.
- Jay
Gallagher’s lecture “Dostoevsky as
Philosopher” – a lecture given at UC Davis in 1998.
- G. J. Mattey’s lecture “Dostoyevski
- Ayn Rand Institute – the official site of the Institute, with many links.
- Ayn Rand Lexicon—arranged by topic,
all in her own words.
- Ayn Rand Says – a random quote
generator (although all the quotations are from Rand, so it’s not so
random after all).
- TPM Online -- the web version
of The Philosopher's Magazine.
- Robert Carrol's Skeptic's Dictionary – A professor of philosophy (at Sacramento City College) supporting the cause of skepticism.
- The
American Philosophical Association has a couple of handouts: Who Studies
Philosophy (with some surprising answers) and A Guide to Graduate
Programs in Philosophy
- The
Philosophical Gourmet Report—one ranking of English-speaking graduate
philosophy departments, assembled by Brian Leiter of the University of
Texas. There are many critics of the PGR, and Richard G. Heck,
Jr. is one. Wikipedia as an
article about the PGR.