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Academic Info : Philosophy - Mike Madin maintains this "annotated directory of Internet resources."

Bjorn's Guide to Philosophy  - A very well-organized site with information on a number of famous philosophers. The site contains biographical information, published works, links to other sites and discussion groups. Worth a visit and a bookmark!

Blackwell Publisher's Guide to On-line Philosophical Resources - an excellent site, helpful suggestions

Noesis - Both an index and search engine of philosophical content direct toward the professional philosophers. You can use it to find essays, lectures and other course materials, images, graphs, charts, book and article reviews, primary texts, bibliographies, chronologies, and glossaries. 

Hippias. Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet -"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."

Gateway to Philosophy

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet from Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College. A massive meta-site with vast links through out the web. You can't go wrong by starting here.

Pathways to Philosophy Distance Learning Project - from the Brits, check out the Philosophy from A to Z section

Peter Milne's Internet Resources in Philosophy

Philosophy around the Web

Philosophy of A-Z

Philosophy in Cyberspace -  "Edited by Dey Alexander (Monash University), Philosophy in Cyberspace is an extensive, annotated index of philosophy resources organized into over 50 topical categories and updated regularly." This is an excellent guide to philosophy resources on the Internet, with good organization and annotations. It covers "more than 1500 philosophy-related sites, over 300 mailing lists and approximately 60 newsgroups." Major sections are Philosophy Topics, Text-Related Res

Philosophy Research Base - "Categorized by history, subject and author, this meta-index features thousands of annotated links, text resources and community services for students and teachers in philosophy and related subjects."

PhilSearch

WWW Virtual Library 

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library- Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Jim Fieser maintains this database that contains a philosophy timeline, a key words list with links to the topics, and a philosophy text collection. Encyclopedia of people, places and ideas relating to the study of philosophy. Browsable and searchable.

Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy - "Compare topics in the most important Encyclopedias and Dictionaries of Philosophy on the Internet."

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - In this first dynamic encyclopedia, each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. Quite extensive and informative. Searchable.

My Virtual Encyclopedia: Philosophy Resources   - Refdesk says it is "the single best source for facts on the Net." Check out the alphabetical list of philosophy topics.

Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names - "This is a concise guide to technical terms and personal names often encountered in the study of philosophy." Click on "Philosophy Pages" to access more of Garth Kemerling's Philosophy site.

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - "This dictionary is intended as a free resource to all those interested in the philosophy of mind."
 

Academic Info Philosophy -- An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources, including Ancient, Medieval, Modern, African and Chinese among others.

Aesthetics Online --articles, bibliographies, teaching resources, links to related sites, and more.

All.Info: Philosophy -- a listing of sites by subject from Aesthetics to Viking!

Ancient World Web

Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason

Arts and Letters Daily --find out what's new in the field of philosophy. ...news, book reviews and more.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Part of the ISI Web of Science database. 1987 - present.

BEARS --Brown Electronic Article Review Service, a bibliography and review of journal articles in moral and political philosophy

A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers

BUBL Link: Philosophy -- An annotated catalogue of Internet resources in Philosophy.

Chinese and Daoist Philosophy

The Critical Thinking Community --Contains articles focused on the background and theory of critical thinking, guidelines and lessons for integrating critical thinking into the curriculum and information on critical thinking seminars, academies, inservices, and summer conferences.

Critical Thinking on the Web -- Links to many articles on topics like argument mapping, cognitive biases, critical reading and writing, fallacies, statistics, tutorials, and more.

Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind --a collaborative work, under construction, includes not only definitions of philosophical terms, but also links to discussions and references.

Episteme Links --includes links to e-texts, journals, papers, and even philosophical humor.

Humbul Humanities Hub -- "discovers, evaluates and catalogues online resources in the humanities of use to students, teachers and researchers, with a strength in resources for Philosophy. . . "

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy --this scholarly effort explains each term at some length, with a bibliography (but not a webliography); there is also a timeline of philosophy, a selection of clickable texts, and a keyword search capability. A work in progress--philosophers are invited to contribute entries.

Jobs in Philosophy

Learning Strategies Database ---The strategies information derives from a number of sources, including books, professional journals, and presentations from professional meetings.

Minerva Dictionary of Concepts --History of Ideas. Each brief article is full of hyperlinks for more information.

Netserf --the Internet Connection for Medieval Resources.

Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy --an extensive index of resources in the field put together by Scott Moore at Baylor University. It provides links to specific philosophers as well as links to journals and schools of thought.

Other Sites of Philosophical Interest

Philosopher's Index - 1940-present, provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

Philosophers' Web Magazin ---"your gateway to the best in classic and contemporary philosophy. With news, reviews, features, interviews, new philosophy and over 200 philosophy links..."

Philosophical Dictionary

Philosophical Gourmet Report--a ranking of American philosophy programs, with general information about graduate study in philosophy.

Philosophy in Cyberspace --won the Digital Librarian's Award for excellence. Includes topical links (aesthetics, logic, etc), text-links, discussion forums, and more.

Philosophy in the Matrix-- Discusses the philosophical aspects of the motion picture starring Keanu Reeves.

Pocketbook.org -- 100 important thinkers and 30 subject areas.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy --a work in progress. Currently has about 500 articles available. You can also see what other terms it plans to include in the future.

Valdosta State Philosophy Web

Vedic Encyclopedia -- Vedic Philosophy

Arts and Letters Daily --find out what's new in the field of philosophy. ...news, book reviews and more.
Philosophers' Magazine on the Internet
Electronic Magazine and Journals from Philosophy on the Web
Directory of Philosophy Magazines
Bioethics in the news from the Bioethics Network of Ohio
New York Times Section on Philosophy News  
Philhaps
Philosophy in the News  
Philosophy Now News Service. From the journal Philosophy Now. 
Philosophy News Service Also see the subpage on What's Happening in Philosophy and the eGroup on Calls for Papers. From Richard Jones.
Philosophy in the North East. That's northeast England. 
Philosophy is Everybody's Business. "A Syntopical Approach to the Common Sense of Practical Philosophy." From the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas.
Philosophy of Science Paper Review Project. Student papers from at course at Indiana University Southeast made.
 

Augustine on the Internet

BEARS Electronically publishes short but substantial reviews of social and political articles that have appeared in the last six months. 

Bhagavad Gita Online

Essential Readings in Chinese Philosophy--both original texts and commentaries.

Directory of Online Philosophy Papers--with guidelines for submissions of your own.

The Electronic Bodhidharma - The most comprehensive, fabolous Zen Studies including texts, art, and related links.

Episteme Links - Lightly annotated but fairly comprehensive guide to philosophy resources on the Internet. Sections include: Philosophers; E-Texts; Departments; Classroom; Journals; Papers; Images; Organizations; Classifieds; Topics; Newsgroups; Discussion Lists; Events; Publishers; Jobs; Humor; General Philosophy.

The Gnosis Archive - "The Gnosis Archive offers a vast collection of primary texts and resources relating to Gnosticism and the Gnostic Tradition, both ancient and modern."

On-line books from U of Penn

The Philosophy Documentation Center's  goal is to provide philosophers with electronic access to the widest possible range of philosophical literature.

Eserver's Philosphy Collection--contains canonical philosophic texts and links to scholarly philosophic organizations.

International Directory of On-line Philosophy Papers

The Internet Classics Archive - "Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation."

Online Papers on Consciousness - "This is a directory of 1284 online papers on consciousness and related topics. ... Most papers are by academic philosophers or scientists."

Summa Theologica-- complete text.

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

UC Berkeley's electronic journals are being cataloged under their individual titles with their URLs linked and/or provided in the catalog records. Search Pathfinder if you are looking for a specific title.  You also can browse or search the contents of Berkeley's electronic journals by provider or publisher; they are linked to from the Electronic Reference Resources/Journals   page.  See also the list of links to online philosophy journals compiled by Prof. John MacFarlane.   Many of these e-journals are restricted to UC or UCB domains.

American Philosophical Association - Founded in 1900, APA is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Also includes a links to web resources.

Philosophical Documentation Center

Aesthetics On-Line: American Society for Aesthetics/British Society of Aesthetics -  "The American Society for Aesthetics was founded in 1942 to promote study, research, discussion, and publication in aesthetics." The aim of the British Society of Aesthetics, founded in 1960, "is to promote study, research and discussion of the fine arts and related types of experience from a philosophical, psychological, sociological, scientific, historical, critical and educational standpoint." The contents include "articles about philosophy and the arts, information about aesthetics events worldwide, and links to other arts, philosophy and aesthetics-related resources on the internet (including the aesthetics email list)." There are also book lists, news, and a direct link to the journal site.

 

The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library - "70 megabytes of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 1300 sections and providing thousands of pages of text, over 1700 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material. There is also a searchable graphics database with 800 images, and a database of alchemy books with 4600 entries and 5 megs of text. It was first launched on 7th May 1995 and new pages are continually being added. There are about 400 people accessing this site each day."

 

Blackwell Publisher's Guide to On-line Philosophical Resources - an excellent site, helpful suggestions
 

Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive - "Electronic versions of Chinese philosophical texts created by the Confucian Etext Project; Electronic versions of Chinese philosophical texts from other sources, to some of which we have made minor improvements; and Information on and links to more information on the preparation and use of these texts."
 

The Cry: existentialism, art, poetry, discussion, surrealism, nietzsche - This site contains: "existentialism, sources, philosophers, texts, community and everything related to this movement, angst art, theater, and some music too."
 

D. Anthony Storm's Commentary On Kierkegaard - "This web site is primarily devoted to developing an online commentary on the writings of the nineteenth century existentialist philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. Also provided are an introduction to Kierkegaard's method of authorship (including a secondary essay) and a Primer on Kierkegaardian Motifs, which serves as an introduction to his thought. Other resources include a brief biography of his life, a chronology, a bibliography, images, and links."
 

Descartes' Meditations - This resource from the Wright State University philosophy department has Descartes' original metaphysical meditations in Latin, French, and English.
 

Humbul Humanities Hub -Searchable, browsable collection of Internet resources in the fields of: English, History, Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science, Theology, Religion, Modern Languages. Intended audience is students and faculty of higher education institutions, and other itnerested persons.
 

Episteme Links - "Includes thousands of sorted links to philosophy resources on the internet has several additional features."

Erraticimpact.com

Ethics Connection Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Ethics Updates - The editor of "Ethics Updates," philosophy professor Laurence Hinman, states his purpose as intending "to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics." An excellent academic resource, "Ethics Update" is or ganized by major topics in ethical theory and applied ethics. Topics in ethical theory include: ethical relativism; utilitarianism; Kant and deontology; Aristotle and virtue ethics; ethical egoism; and rights theories, while topics in applied ethics incl ude: gender and sexism; race and ethnicity; poverty and welfare; world hunger; and environmental ethics. Hinman divides the individual topic pages into "Internet resources," "Bibliographies," and "Discussion questions," and provides links or commentary f or each. The site does a tremendous job of gathering current and important on-line resources in ethics studies. Recommended for serious students of ethics.

ePhilosopher

Gateway to Philosophy

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet from Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College. A massive meta-site with vast links through out the web. You can't go wrong by starting here.

The Internet Classics Archive - The more famous and some lesser known authors of Greek and Roman literature. Included are full texts of their works, with contextual information (such as when it was written). One can also see other readers' opinions and thoughts on the works and respond to them or post one's own. A search engine is provided.

The Ism Book

Jobs for Philosophers - "Job advertisements in philosophy world-wide, postings in any language. Ordered by date of posting, more recent postings first. Three pages: Europe, America, Asia/Africa/Australasia." Most postings are for faculty positions in higher educational institutions.

New American Studies Web: Religion and Religious Cultural Studies - This part of the American Studies Web provides access to a variety of resources related to religion in America.

Noesis: Philosophical Research Online

One Stop Philosophy Shop

Online Papers on Consciousness - "This is a directory of 1284 online papers on consciousness and related topics. ... Most papers are by academic philosophers or scientists."

Origins - "Features scholarly and popular resources concerning intelligent design and philosophical theism." Types of resources include articles and essays; interviews; book reviews; and debates. Topics covered include intelligent design; creationism; theism; atheism; and Darwinism & evolution.

Paideia Project Online

Peter Milne's Internet Resources in Philosophy

Philosophers without borders

Philosophical Resources in the Net

Philosophy at Large

Philosophy of A-Z

Philosophy in Cyberspace -  "Edited by Dey Alexander (Monash University), Philosophy in Cyberspace is an extensive, annotated index of philosophy resources organized into over 50 topical categories and updated regularly." This is an excellent guide to philosophy resources on the Internet, with good organization and annotations. It covers "more than 1500 philosophy-related sites, over 300 mailing lists and approximately 60 newsgroups." Major sections are Philosophy Topics, Text-Related Resources, Organizations, Discussion Forums, and Miscellaneous.

Philosophy Pages - Garth Kemerling maintains this site that offers helpful information for students of the Western Philosophical tradition. Some of the elements you will find on this site include: a survey of the history of Western Philosophy, a timeline, discussion of several major philosophers, links to other philosophy sites on the Internet, and a study guide for students of philosophy.

Philosophy of Religion - Discussions on all topics in the philosophy of religion divided into four sections: Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for Atheism, Christian Ethics, and a Directory

Philosophy Related Resources on the Internet

 

The Philosophy Research Base - "The Philosophy Research Base, categorized by history, subject and author, features thousands of annotated links and text resources for philosophy research on the Internet."
 

Philosophy Resources - listing by topics and categroies

Philosophy around the Web - Peter J. King states "The main purpose of this site is to act as a guide and a gateway to philosophy resources on the Internet. The heart of the site is a set of links organised into fourteen main categories."

Religion and Philosophy

Routledge's Guide to Philosophy Resources on the Internet

Sean's One-Stop Philosophy Shop

Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies - Provides definitions and examples of various logical fallacies, and how to contradict them. Organized by type of fallacy.

Video lectures on ethics and values - worth visiting to and watching, many useful lectures and discussions

Virtual Library Guide to Philosophy

Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy - "VoS is woven by Alan Liu and a development team in the U.California, Santa Barbara, English Department."

Wadsworth Philosophy Shoppe - A comprehensive resource center for instructors, students, and anyone intrigued by philosophy. You will find information on their texts and additional resources. Check out: "Through the Looking Glass" (challenging games and puzzles and humor.)

A Window to Philosophy

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library- Philosophy

WWW Virtual Library

The World Wide Online Meditation Center - This site contains ³General Information² on mediation, ³CORE MEDITATIONS RELAXATION & STRESS REDUCTION: Relaxation Meditation, etc.², and ³HEALING MEDITATIONS: Color Healing Meditation, Energy Healing Meditation, etc.² It also provides many links to other meditation-related sites.