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Philosophy

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Index

  • General Resources
  • Specific Sites
  • Electronic Discussion Lists
  • Electronic Journals and Other Periodicals
  • Electronic Texts
  • Conferences

    • General Resources

  • Academic Info: Philosophy

  • Cogprints: Cognitive Sciences Electronic Archive offers hundreds of full-text scholarly papers related to the study of cognition, including works in such fields as Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, and Computer Science. Contents culled from current academic journals, conference proceedings, recent and forthcoming books and personal collections and are available in several formats (.pdf, HTML, plaint text, and postscript). An internal search engine is provided as is information on depositing work in the archive.

  • Episteme Links, links to web resources on specific philosophers.

  • A Field Guide to the Philosophy of the Mind

  • Guide to Philosophy on the Internet, from Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Searchable.

  • Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet. From Evansville University. "[P]eer-reviewed search engine that provides access to philosophy-related resources on the [web]." Edited by Peter Suber of Earlham College, it searches seven major philosophy meta-sites.

  • Humanities Resources

  • The International Directory of On-Line Philosophy Papers, from Dr. Joe Lau, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Consists of more than 460 papers and pre-prints submitted by philosophers working at academic institutions.

  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, searchable database of basic philosophy information and definitions. Visitors to the site can search by keyword, click on a letter to browse subjects in the collection, or read a small library of philosophy texts in HTML format.

  • Internet Services for Philosophers, from Utrecht University.

  • Net Resources for Philosophers, from Indiana University.

  • Noesis: Philosophical Research On-Line. This new search engine offers access to resources and works in progress by philosophy professionals.

  • Philosopher's Index, available both on and off campus via WebSPIRS. Limited to four concurrent users. Use Philosopher's Index from any campus machine or off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Philosophy and Religion Resources, from the University of Virginia.

  • Philosophy In Cyberspace, guide to philosophy-related resources on the Internet. Compiled by Dey Alexander, Monash University.

  • Philosophy on the Web, from Utrecht University.

  • Philosophy Pages, by Dieter Koehler.

  • Philosophy Pages, from Johns Hopkins University.

  • Philosophy Research Base

  • Philosophy Resources, from Galaxy.

  • Philosophy Virtual Library, from the University of Bristol.

  • Religion and Philosophy Resources, from Boston University.

  • Religion Resources

  • Resources For Philosophers, designed and maintained by the Indiana University Philosophy Department.

  • Spoon Collective, houses descriptive information, discussion archives, paper archives, and links to Websites for three dozen listservs related to the discussion of philosophy, sociology, political science, and literary theory.

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  • Yahoo's Philosophy Web Directory

    • Specific Sites

  • Applied Ethics in professional Practice, Real ethics cases are selected bi-monthly for the Case of the Month Club. This site is interactive, and viewers can vote on suggested solutions provided with each case study.

  • Aesthetics On-Line, the American Society for Aesthetics' Web site, includes links to art resources for aesthetics teachers as well as links to many philosophy- and arts-related resources on the Web.

  • American Philosophical Association

  • Ayn Rand Institute, Center for the Advancement of Objectivism.

  • Bioethics Discussion Pages, for bioethical discussions by everyone about issues in medical care that affect everyone.

  • Camus Critical Interpretation Homepage, interactive collection of essays, papers, theses, links, and criticism on and by Albert Camus. Special emphasis on The Stranger.

  • Canadian Bioethics Report, produced by the Department of Ethics and Legal Affairs, Canadian Medical Association.

  • Chinese Philosophy

  • Code of Ethics Online Project, collection of over 850 codes of ethics on the World-Wide Web. Includes codes of ethics of professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions.

  • Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

  • Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

  • The Durkheim Pages, resource on the French sociologist and philosopher Emile Durkheim, provided by Professor Robert Alun Jones of the University of Illinois. Included are both a complete chronological bibliography of Durkheim's published works and an alphabetical bibliography of hundreds of items about Durkheim. Also features two full texts highlighted by a set of lecture notes taken by the philosopher Andre Lalonde from a course given by Durkheim in 1883-84. A brief biography of Durkheim, a timeline, a list of lecture courses taught by Durkheim, and a glossary of pertinent terms are available.

  • Ereignis (Martin Heidegger), with links to essays, books, and mailing lists.

  • Ethics Center For Engineering & Science, virtual center for engineering ethics, research ethics and science ethics. From MIT.

  • Ethics Resources on the Net, from DePaul University's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics.

  • Everything Postmodern

  • The Realm of Existentialism, pointers to online texts, photos, and criticism related to existentialist thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

  • Film and Philosophy, published annually by the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts [SPSCVA].The Society's newsletter, which contains film and book reviews, schedules of the Society's activities, and other news of interest to students of film and philosophy, is published quarterly. All issues to date of the journal and the newsletter are available at this website in either WordPerfect 5.1 or html format.

  • German Philosophy Resources, from the WWW Virtual Library.

  • Hegel by HyperText, including excerpts from Marx, Engels, and Lenin, with a special Marxism-for-beginners area.

  • History and Philosophy of Science

  • The Husserl Page, provides access to net resources pertaining to the life and work of the 20th century philosopher, Edmund Husserl.

  • Kierkegaard, D. Anthony Storm's web site on Kierkegaard. Besides a commentary on Kierkegaard's writings, there are two essays on Kierkegaard's authorship, a biography, bibliography, images and more.

  • Kierkegaard on the Internet, including a biography and a series of essays on his writings.

  • Logic Resources at Texas A&M University

  • The Marx/Engels Internet Archive, originally hosted (and still mirrored) by Communications for a Sustainable Future at the University of Colorado, has become part of Cyber-Marx International. Contains selections from or the full text of over sixty works of Marx and Engels, and also works of other Marxist writers such as Daniel DeLeon, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao, and Trotsky.

  • Moral and Political Philosophy, Brown U. Electronic Article Review Service (BEARS).

  • National Endowment for the Humanities

  • The Nietzsche Page

  • Pathways to Philosophy, distance learning course run in association with The Philosophical Society of England.

  • Philosophy Since the Enlightenment, offers an accessible overview of the last 350 years of Western philosophy. Contains sections explaining the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Analytic Philosophy, Existentialism, Post Structuralism, and Moral Philosophy, as well as sections devoted to Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy and God.

  • Plato and his Dialogues, including a hyperlinked study illuminating the philosopher's Tetralogies.

  • Religion & Philosophy Resources on the Internet, from Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.

  • Sartre, links to Sartre excerpts and information, compiled by Katharena Eiermann.

  • Sartre List, an electronic mailing list aimed primarily at the discussion of Sartre's existential philosophy but also dealing with broader issues in philosophy, phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

  • The Sir Isaac Newton Home Page, established by James E. Force and Chase Krumpelman, University of Kentucky.

  • The Tech Classics Archive, from MIT. Search form guides you through a 376 ancient drama, literature, and philosophy classics. All texts are English translations.

  • University of Chicago Philosophy Project, 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.

    • Electronic Discussion Lists

  • Calls for Philosophy Papers/Participants (PNS-CFP):Information about philosophy events and speaking and publishing opportunities for philosophers. Subscription instructions:Send any email to pns-CFP-subscribe@egroups.com and reply to the confirmation email that will be sent to you from eGroups.com, the host of the list.

  • Jobs for Philosophers (PNS-JOBS): Announcements about all kinds of jobs (including fellowships) for philosophy teachers and students. Send any email to pns-JOBS-subscribe@egroups.com and reply to the confirmation email that will be sent to you from eGroups.com, the host of the list.

  • Philosophy News.Philosophy News also has a: Philosophy News Service List. This is an e-mailing lists for philosophers. It is also a FREE and convenient way to learn and share the latest philosophy news and announcements. To subscribe to this service, please send an e-mail to:
    PNS-List-Subscribe@eGroups.com, and be sure to reply to the confirmation e-mail that you will receive.

  • Philosophy News Service Discussion Group (PNS-DISC): Thoughtful, insightful, and courteous discussions about the news, articles, and essays posted to the Philosophy News Service website Subscription instructions:Send any email to pns-DISC-subscribe@egroups.com and reply to the confirmation email that will be sent to you from eGroups.com, the host of the list.

  • Philosophy News Service List (PNS-LIST): With the introduction of PNS-CFP, PNS-DISC, PNS-JOBS, and PNS-TOC,PNS-LIST will now feature *general* updates regarding new content,services, features, and opportunities at the Philosophy News Service website. Messages will be sent through this list on an average of twice per month. Be sure to join PNS-LIST if you want to keep abreast of *all* that's happening with the PNS. Send any email to pns-LIST-subscribe@egroups.com and reply to the confirmation email that will be sent to you from eGroups.com, the host of the list.

    • Electronic Journals and Other Periodicals

  • Aesthetics Online

  • Analysis, the Philosophy Journal.

  • Biomedical Ethics, newsletter of the European Network.

  • Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, online version of the print bulletin published monthly by the Association of Symbolic Logic. Articles are provided as full-text postscript files and are available for downloading for personal and educational purposes free-of-charge.

  • Common Knowledge, multidisciplinary journal publishing work being done in philosophy, history, literary studies, art history, psychoanalytic theory, religion and politics. From the Oxford University Press.

  • The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy

  • The Ethical Spectacle, monthly ezine covering the collision of ethics, law and politics in our society.

  • Friesian School Proceedings, non-peer-reviewed electronic journal of philosophy that takes up the tradition of the Friesian School and seeks to promote the further development of the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

  • HUMANITAS Journal: philosophical discussions, including perceptions of reality.

  • Journal of Buddhist Ethics

  • JSTOR, journal backfile digitizing and storage project providing access to the backfiles of journals in ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, & population studies. Searchable. Restricted to on-campus machines or available through the proxy server.

  • The Philosopher, interactive electronic incarnation of the Journal of the Philosophical Society of England.

    • Electronic Texts

  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, contains section on Western philosophy.

  • Augustine Texts, from the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Digital Text Projects, from the Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. Includes Digital Classics (classic works of philosophy and literature) and original multimedia translations of classic and contemporary texts as well as hyperlink annotations to a variety of collateral text and multimedia resources, both classic and contemporary, that can help contextualize and orient the material for study.

  • Past Masters fulltext databases include the following:

    Primary Sources Databases:

  • St. Anselm (Opera Omnia)
  • Aquinas (collected works)
  • Aristotle (complete works)
  • St. Augustine (works in translation)
  • St. Augustine (Opera Omnia)
  • Austen, Jane (Letters)
  • Austin, J. L. (John Langshaw): Works
  • Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules): Writings
  • Bentham, Jeremy (collected works)
  • Bentham, Jeremy (correspondence)
  • Berkeley, George (works)
  • Bluestocking Feminism: 1738-1785
  • Boyle, Robert (Works)
  • British Philosophy: 1600-1900 (includes Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume)
  • Brontë, Charlotte (Letters)
  • Burney, Fanny (Journals & Letters and Complete Plays)
  • Calvin, John (Works & Correspondence)
  • Chesterton, G. K. (Collected Works)
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (Collected Letters)
  • Collingwood, R. G. (Philosophical Texts)
  • Continental Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz)
  • Darwin, Charles (works)
  • Davidson, Donald (Inquiries and Essays)
  • Descartes (Oeuvres Complètes de René Descartes)
  • Dewey, John (Collected Works)
  • Dickens, Charles (Letters)
  • Dewey, John (Correspondence)
  • Eighteenth Century Correspondence (Contains 48 volumes of correspondence of important figures in eighteenth century England, all from Oxford University Press.)
  • Eliot, George (Notebooks and Library)
  • Emerging Tradition, 1500-1700
  • Ferguson, Adam (Correspondence)
  • Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (Sämmtliche Werke und Nachlass)
  • Gladstone, William (Diaries)
  • Hardy, Thomas (Collected Letters)
  • Hegel, G. W. F. (OUP translations)
  • Hegel, G. W. F. (Werke II)
  • Hobbes, Thomas (Correspondence)
  • Hume, David (Complete Works and Correspondence)
  • Kant, Immanuel (Hauptwerke and Philosophische Briefe und Vorlesungsnachschriften)
  • Kierkegaard, Søren (Journals and Papers and Samlede Værker)
  • Knox, John (Works)
  • The Latin Background, 1100-1550
  • Leibniz, G. W. (Philosophische Schriften)
  • Locke, John (Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence)
  • Luther, Martin (Sermons)
  • Malthus, Thomas Robert (Works)
  • Mansfield, Katherine (Collected Letters)
  • Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels (Collected Works)
  • Modern Era: 1800-1950 (Contains 40 volumes of correspondence from important figures in nineteenth and twentieth century England, all from Oxford University Press.)
  • Newman, John Henry (Letters and Diaries)
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (Werke Historisch-kritische Ausgabe)
  • William of Ockham (The Work of Ninety Days)
  • Peirce, Charles Sanders (Collected Papers and Published Works, Vol. 1)
  • Plato (Collected Dialogues)
  • Poinsot, John [John of St. Thomas] (Tractatus de Signis)
  • Political Philosophy (Machiavelli to Mill)
  • Pope, Alexander (Correspondence)
  • Romantic Age, The (Correspondence)
  • Royce, Josiah (Works)
  • Santayana, George (Works)
  • Schopenhauer, Arthur (Hauptwerke)
  • Shelley, Mary (Novels and Selected Works)
  • Sidgwick, Henry (Complete Works & Select Correspondence)
  • Smith, Adam (Works and Correspondence)
  • Spencer, Herbert (Complete Works)
  • Swift, Jonathan (Correspondence)
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord (Letters)
  • Utilitarians, The (Bentham, Mill, Sidgwick)
  • Weber, Max (Gesammelte Werke und Schriften)
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig (includes Collected Works, Letters, Lectures, Conversations, Memoirs, Nachlass, Published Works, Tagebücher und Briefe & Texts and Contexts)
  • Wordsworth, Dorothy & William (Collected Letters)
  • Yeats, William Butler (Collected Letters)

    Reference Databases:

  • Motif-Index of Folk Literature (revised & enlarged edition)
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
  • Oxford Duden German-English Dictionary

    Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.


  • Spinoza E-Texts

  • The Tech Classics Archive, search form guides you through a storehouse of 376 ancient drama, literature, and philosophy classics. All texts are English translations.

    • Conferences

  • Mid-South Philosophy Conference, from Middle Tennessee State University.Includes information on the annual conference, paper submissions, committee contacts, and the conference program.

  • Philosophy Department, University of Kentucky.

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    This page was last updated 21 June 2005. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Brad Carrington at bcarring@uky.edu.

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