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Philosophy

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Professional Organizations

The American Philosophical Association: “The American Philosophical Association 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.” http://www.udel.edu/apa/

American Society for Aesthetics on-line: Professional organization to promote the study of aesthetics. Along with information about conventions and events, site includes short articles on aesthetics, philosophy of art, art theory and art criticism. Specific topics include: teaching Japanese aesthetics, teaching non-western aesthetics and teaching aesthetics to artists. http://aesthetics-online.org/

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind: Entries skew toward issues of cognition and consciousness. Search alphabetically or use index or search engine. Links page accessible from index page. Author: Chris Eliasmith. www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict

A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names: Definitions on this site are concise by design, but often include links to more extended discussions and/or philosophical texts on other websites. Site also includes a brief History of Western Philosophy, a philosophy timeline, and a brief discussion of the elementary principles of logic. Author is Garth Kemerling. http://people.delphi.com/gkemerling/dy/

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The main features of this website are articles on important philosophers (adapted from public domain sources or from editor’s classroom materials or written by professional philosophers), an alphabetized listing of philosophical terms (keywords), and a small collection of online philosophical texts. Edited by James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/heraclit.htm

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: This encyclopedia bills itself as a “dynamic” encyclopedia because entries are maintained by a team of experts who have direct editing access to the articles they write (though updates are refereed by other experts). Table of contents includes projected entries as well as actual. Actual contents seems sparse. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bradley

Philosophers

Exploring Plato’s Dialogues: Browsable and searchable collection of articles and essays, bibliographies, book reviews, lecture notes, maps and images, and primary texts relevant to Plato’s dialogues. Currently, the middle dialogues are available; plans are underway to include others. Includes links to other internet resources. http://plato.evansville.edu/

Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy: Site contains a selection of Epicurean E-Texts, an annotated list of Epicurean websites, some background information regarding Epicureanism, and information about contacting other Epicureans. Author is Vincent Cook. http://www.epicurus.net/

Primary Texts

Eserver Collections in the Arts & Humanities: Philosophy: A collection of online philosophical texts (mostly western, some in French) with some links provided to scholarly philosophical organizations. Carnegie Mellon University. http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy

Special Topics

African Philosophy Resources: The best website yet in this relatively new area of philosophy. http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~janzb/afphilpage.htm

The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library: MEGASITE: Site contains massive collections of original alchemical texts online (most in English) and a massive alchemical image archive. Also includes extensive bibliography of print materials, links to brief biographies of alchemists, links to other alchemical sites and information on Islamic, Indian and Chinese alchemy. http://www.levity.com/alchemy/

The Gnosis Archive: Site includes a large collection of online primary documents and audio lectures related to Gnosticism as well as an extensive collection of annotated links to websites in a variety of relevant subject areas. Also included are introductory essays explaining Gnosticism, information regarding Gnostic publications, and an extensive collection of annotated links to websites in a variety of relevant subject areas. http://www.gnosis.org/

Subject Directories & Search Engines

Philosophy Resources on the Internet: Includes thousands of sorted links to internet resources arranged into sections, including: Philosophers (over 1000 resources on over 300 philosophers, arranged by time period and by philosopher’s last name), Topics in philosophy (topic, tradition or time period), and E-texts (over 800 links to electronic texts by famous philosophers). http://www.epistemelinks.com/index.asp

American Studies Web: Philosophy and Religion: Annotated links to high quality websites on philosophy and world religions which have taken root in America. Also contains information on American Studies programs and curricula. Part of the American Studies Electronic Crossroads Project of the American Studies Association, with sponsorship from Georgetown University. www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/philos.html

Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet: Sites to be included in the search are selected for relevance, interest and quality by qualified professionals. Author: Peter Suber. Note: This site is schedule to merge with Noesis in September, 2000. http://hippias.evansville.edu

Noesis: Philosophical Research On-line: Noesis is an attempt to organize the “philosophical content” of the internet to be of maximum use to students and scholars. It provides an index of internet sites and a limited area search engine for philosophical research. Noesis allows scholars to publish online and indexes several online philosophy journals and two encyclopedias of philosophy. It is browsable by author, collection or topic, and searchable. http://noesis.evansville.edu

Women

Noema: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy: A bibliography of works by women in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy and philosophy of mind, of science, of art, and more. This database has been built as a collaborative project and now includes more than 16,000 records representing 5,000 women in philosophy. Database is searchable by author, title, subject and more. Site also contains an author index. billyboy.ius.indiana.edu/womeninphilosophy/womeninphilo.html

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