Philosophy links assembled by Michael Taber

Large, central sites:

• Episteme Links -- a comprehensive site with many parts, from lecture notes for courses to philosophical humor. They also have an excellent page of links to other philosophy sites on the web.
• 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.
• Philosophy @ Large -- includes a list of philosophy-related listserves, categorized by subject; hosted by England's University of Liverpool.
• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet -- assembled by Peter Suber, a professor of philosophy at Earlham College (in Indiana), this site 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.
• 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 Sweden (when he assembled this site).
• 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."

Sites exclusively for original philosophy:

• CogPrints: Philosophy Listings – from the Cognitive Sciences Eprints Archive, the listings in Philosophy link to dozens of original articles on the theme of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science.
• 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.
• Reflections -- the student journal from St. Mary's College of Maryland's Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies; available on-line beginning with volume #4 (1999).
• The Carleton University Student Journal of Philosophy -- with complete editions on-line.

Course materials:

• World Lecture Hall -- maintained by the University of Texas, this site covers all disciplines, and includes lecture notes, course assignments, etc.
• 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 Seton Hall University.
• Involved -- an account of some of the paradoxes for the more mathematically conversant; also from Seton Hall University.

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 Clarke College in Iowa, an annotated electronic text of Plato's Apology, Euthyphro, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo, intended especially to help beginning readers of these works.
• Outline of the Euthyphro -- from Cynthia Freeland of the University of Houston.
• Outline of the Meno -- also from Cynthia Freeland of the University of Houston.

Aristotle:

• The "CAT"egories -- from Cynthia Freeland of the University of Houston.

Hellenistic Philosophy and Neoplatonism:

• Ecole Initiative article on Stoicism -- an excellent account of Stoicism; from the University of Evansville's (Indiana) Ecole Initiative.
• The Stoics on fatalism -- Cynthia Freeland of the University of Houston.
• 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 on Freedom” – a lecture given at UC Davis in 1995, this covers the relation between freedom and happiness in Dostoevsky’s thought.
• The F. M. Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum – in St. Petersburg, Russia, this site includes photos of some of the artifacts and places in Dostoevsky’s life.

Friedrich Nietzsche:

• The Perspectives of Nietzsche -- quotations from Nietzsche arranged according to subject by Bill Perry of the University of Pittsburgh.
  
  

Ayn Rand:

• Ayn Rand Institute – the official site of the Institute, with many links.
• Ayn Rand Says – a random quote generator (although all the quotations are from Rand, so it’s not so random after all).
• Online Study Guide for the Life and Works of Ayn Rand – an extensive list of links to sites related to Rand (assembled by “Online Schools”)
  
  

Miscellanea:

• 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.
• Other Philosophy Departments in the U. S. -- The American Philosophical Association has a listing of (and linking to) departments of philosophy in the United States.
• The Philosophical Gourmet Report -- one ranking of graduate philosophy departments in the U. S., assembled by Brian Leiter of the University of Texas.
• A web site dedicated to counteracting the excessive influence of The Philosophical Gourmet Report,” maintained by Richard G. Heck, Jr. of Brown University
• Professor Kate Norlock’s (of St. Mary’s College of Maryland) “Preparing for Graduate School: Advice for Undergraduates”
• Wikipedia has an article about The Philosophical Gourmet Report.
  
  

Events at other local departments:

• Georgetown University's philosophy calendar
• Johns Hopkins University's philosophy calendar
• Catholic University of America’s lecture series
• University of Maryland's philosophy page

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updated 12/12