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Philosophy Links

Last Modified: 7/14/09

Below are a number of links to interesting Internet sites relevant to philosophy. The links are organized by topic. For the most part, I have tried to select the best pages I thought my students would enjoy (or at least find useful). All the links are current as of 6/9/09.

A next to a link indicates a site aimed more at professional researchers than a curious public.

N.B.: I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information on the following sites!

Table of Contents

A. REFERENCE

1. Interesting General Philosophy Web Pages
2. Philosophical Organizations

3. Online Reference Works on Philosophy

4. Philosophy Search Engines & Links

5. Guides To Contemporary Philosophy Papers Online

B. VALUE THEORY

1. Theoretical Ethics
2. Applied Ethics

a. General
b. Abortion
c. Animal Rights
d. Bioethics
e. Censorship
f. Cloning
g. Death Penalty
h. Engineering Ethics
i. Environmental Ethics
j. Euthanasia
k. Hallucinogenic Drugs
l. Professional Ethics
m. Prostitution
n. Sexual Orientation
o. Stem Cell Research
3. Political Philosophy
4. Philosophy of Law

C. THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
1. Epistemology
2. Philosophy of Science

D. METAPHYSICS

1. General
2. Philosophy of Religion and Atheism

3. Philosophy of Mind

4. Personal Identity

5. Abstract Objects

6. Ontology

7. Causality

8. Philosophy Of Language

9. Free Will

E. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

1. Ancient
2. Modern

3. Existentialism & Phenomenology

4. Pragmatism

5. 20th Century Analytic

6. Web Pages Dedicated To Famous Philosophers In History

a. Links to Sites About Numerous Philosophers
b. Classic Philosophy Texts Online
c. Links Organized by Philosopher
Aquinas
Aristotle
Bayle, Pierre
Bentham, Jeremy
Berkeley, George
Brentano, Franz
Condorcet, Marquis De
Descartes, Rene
Frege, Gottlob
Hobbes, Thomas
Hume, David
James, William
Kant, Immanuel
Kierkegaard, Soren
La Mettrie, Julien de
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Locke, John
Marx, Karl
Mersenne, Marin
Mill, John Stuart
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Peirce, C. S.
Plato
Priestley, Joseph
Reid, Thomas
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Russell, Bertrand
Spinoza, Baruch
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

F. LOGIC & CRITICAL THINKING

G. MISCELLANEOUS

1. Philosophy From Around The World
2. Philosophy Clubs

3. Information About Philosophy Departments

4. The Philosopher's Song (Monty Python)

5. (Attempts at) Philosophical Humor

6. University Of Louisiana at Lafayette Philosophy Department

A. REFERENCE

1. Fun General Philosophy Web Pages
The Philosopher's Web Magazine

Zeno's Coffeehouse (Puzzles and Paradoxes)

The Window: Philosophy On The Web
No Dogs Or Philosophers Allowed

Think magazine

Philosophy Talk - radio program with downloadable episodes, with two philosophy professors from Stanford! Excellent productions.

2. Philosophical Organizations

The American Philosophical Association
Episteme Links Page Listing Scores of Philosophical Organizations

3. Online Reference Works on Philosophy

a. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
b. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

c. The Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy - compare entries from various online encyclopedias.

d. A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

e. PhilosophyProfessor.com - a dictionary of philosophy.

4. Philosophy Search Engines & Links
Episteme Links
Philosophy Around The Web

The Philosophy Research Base

Research Institute for the Humanities - Philosophy Page - contains an especially extensive set of links to sites devoted to particular philosophers.

5. Guides To Contemporary Philosophy Papers Online

philpapers - a large database of philosophy papers.

Evans' Experientialism - huge library of books and papers online

Chalmers' List of Individuals With Online Papers

psearch - a customized philosophy search engine

PH Online Papers In Philosophy - Brian Weatherson's list

Online Papers from the faculty at NYU

The Paideia Project - Contains hundreds of philosophy papers online from the 20th World Congress of Philosophy.

Papers Presented to the 1998 Philosophy of Science Association - contains over 60 papers in philosophy of science.

Oxford University Press Reading Room - allows you to download chapters and excerpts from newer OUP philosophy books.

INTUTE: Philosophy - contains numerous links and resources.

Essays on the Philosophy of Technology

Research Seminar on Language and Philosophy of Mind - contains several papers by some of the top people in the field.

Philosophy Resources Online Texts

Front for the Mathematics Archive - Logic - contains papers in logic.

The Logic Group Preprint Series

For links to Online Philosophy Journals, see the Epistemelinks List.

Memetics Publications on the Web - an extensive set of links to papers.

Philosophy of Language Links - online papers in philosophy of language!

The Epistemology Research Guide

B. VALUE THEORY

1. Theoretical Ethics
a. Ethics Matters
b. Utilitarian.org - a site devoted to Utilitarianism!

c. Utilitarianism Resources

d. Is Morality a Matter of Taste? by Theodore Schick, Jr. - a brief article on Moral Relativism

e. BEARS - reviews articles published in value theory.

f. Sir David Ross's Pluralistic Theory of Duty - a lengthy paper which discusses Ross's theory and traces its relations to Kant's ethics.

g. A Practical Guide to Ethical Theory - by Richard Field

2. Applied Ethics

a. General
Ethics Matters - contains an enormous amount of information on philosophical approaches to applied ethics, including pages on virtually all the topics listed below. A "must see"!
Applied Ethics Resources On The Web

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Contains numerous articles in various areas of applied ethics.

Psychological Aspects of Human Sexuality - pro and con links to numerous ethical issues regarding sexuality

ACLU Home Page - contains a wide array of information re: civil rights issues.

ReligiousTolerance.org - an excellent source of information on both sides of moral issues. See the Hot Topics sections.

BBC Ethics Pages - summarizes numerous arguments on various issues.

b. Abortion
National Right To Life
National Abortion Rights Action League

ACLU page on reproductive rights - access to numerous links and legal information.

Abortionfacts.com - arguments from an anti-abortion perspective

The Alan Guttmacher Institute - articles from the journal Family Planning Perspectives and other resources are avaliable online.

CDC - Surveillance and Research on Abortion - govt. statistics

"Partial Birth Abortions" - info. on both sides of the issue.

Ethics Matters page on abortion - papers and other resources

Links to some pro-life articles by philosophers

c. Animal Rights
FarmSanctuary.org - pro-animal rights

Animal Rights Library - a large collection of classic and contemporary philosophy articles

People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA)

Foundation For Biomedical Research (Pro-animal use)

AnimalRights.net (Pro-animal use)

Animal Welfare Information Center - govt. agency provides lots of information

Humane Society of the United States - a useful resource!

d. Bioethics
Bioethics.net
e. Censorship
National Coalition Against Censorship
Morality in Media

Index on Censorship - online magazine devoted to censorship

Censored - extensive links on book banning and censorship

Most Frequently Challenged Books

National Coalition For The Protection Of Children And Families

f. Cloning

Information and links on cloning from the Human Genome Project

g. Death Penalty

"The Case Against The Death Penalty" by Hugo Adam Bedau
The Justice Project - an activist organization with useful documents online.

ACLU Page (Anti-Death Penalty)

Pro-Death Penalty.com

Death Penalty Information Center

Bureau of Justice Statistics Capital Punishment Page - government stat.s re: the death penalty in the U.S.

h. Engineering Ethics
The Online Ethics Center For Engineering And Science
i. Environmental Ethics
International Society For Environmental Ethics

j. Euthanasia

ERGO (Pro-Euthanasia Site)
Euthanasia.com (Anti-Euthanasia Site)

Assisted Suicide: The Philosopher's Brief
Written by six of the best moral philosophers writing today (Ronald Dworkin, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Robert Nozick, Thomas Nagel, John Rawls and Thomas Scanlon), this article was filed as an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court.
International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force
k. Hallucinogenic Drugs
Drug Policy Alliance (pro-legalization)
Stop The Drug War (pro-legalization)

National Institute on Drug Abuse (government agency)

Office of National Drug Control Policy (government agency)

Drug Watch International - (anti-legalization)

National Drug Strategy Network

National Families In Action (anti-legalization)

Web of Addictions (anti-legalization)

NORML - group favors legalization of marijuana - site contains lots of info.

l. Professional Ethics
Business Ethics Resources on the WWW

Institute For Global Ethics

LegalEthics.com

Ethics Operationalized - practical advice for the workplace.

m. Prostitution
Prostitute's Education Network
Report of the San Francisco Task Force On Prostitution

Prostitution Research and Education

n. Sexual Orientation

(1) General
Lesbian and Gay Rights (ACLU)
Human Rights Campaign - offers current information about political figures' gay rights record as well as statistics and arguments.

Family Research Council - against homosexuality

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund - gay rights organization

Christianity and Homosexuality - contains a wide variety of articles written from a Christian perspective

Sexual Orientation: Science, Education and Policy - contains a number of articles by psychologist Gregory Herek.

American Psychological Association Q & A

(2) Same-Sex Marriages
Bibliography of Same-Sex Marriage - includes links to on-line resources

Same-Sex Marriages - info. on both sides

Issue Report on Same-Sex Marriage - from the National Organization for Women

The Battle Over Same-Sex Marriage - from PBS

NoGayMarriage.com - lots of links to articles in the "More Info." section

(3) Health Issues
The Journal of Human Sexuality - Contains several of articles criticizing homosexuality, some written from a religious perspective.
HIV Insite - Includes an extensive online textbook about AIDS.

(4) Conversion Therapy

Position of the American Psychiatric Association on Conversion Therapy for Homosexuals
NARTH Home Page (pro-conversion therapy - contains lots of articles)

Review of Nicolosi's book - Joseph Nicolosi is President of NARTH

Herek's page on Conversion Therapy

Religioustolerance.org provides extensive discussion of both sides of the conversion therapy issue.

o. Stem Cell Research

Stem Cell Information - from the National Institutes of Health
American Association for the Advancement of Science Report - on stem cell research

Stem Cell Research News - a newsletter devoted to all aspects of stem cell research

Do No Harm - opposing use of stem cells

Article from Harvard Health Policy Review - gives an overview of the issues

AMA Page on stem-cell research

Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity - opposes use of stem cells

3. Political Philosophy

Marxism Page

Links To The Works Of Famous Political Philosophers

4. Philosophy of Law
The Philosophy of Law Page

C. THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

1. Epistemology

The Epistemology Research Guide by Keith Korcz
The Epistemology Page by Keith DeRose

2. Philosophy of Science

Kelley Ross' papers On Philosophy Of Science
The Karl Popper Web

Course Notes From A Class in Philosophy of Science

D. METAPHYSICS

1. General

What Is Metaphysics?
Beyond Experience - A complete introductory metaphysics textbook by a well respected figure in the field available online!

2. Philosophy of Religion & Atheism

(a) General Philosophy
Does God Exist? Two Philosophy Professors Debate (transcripts of debates between William Lane Craig and several other philosophers)

Philosophy of Religion Info page - an on-line guide to issues in Philosophy of Religion and recommended books.

Professor William Lane Craig's home page contains numerous pro-theistic articles he has written.

Society of Christian Philosophers

The Secular Web - includes a huge on-line library.

Pro-Christian Philosophy From Leadership University - lots of on-line articles.

Scott Moore's Page (Contains lots of links to papers online)

Michael Sudduth's Analytic Philosophy of Religion Page

World Union of Deists

Some Offbeat Arguments For The Existence of God, collected by Alvin Plantinga

Berggren's Atheism Page - contains a number of useful links.

Philo - journal with several articles online

Peter Kreeft - a Christian Apologetics site, includes some clearly laid out arguments.

Ars Disputandi - an on-line journal of philosophy of religion.

(b) Humanist & Atheist Organizations

American Humanist Association
The Council For Secular Humanism

Corliss Lamont Website
American Atheists

Biblical America Resistance Front (BARF)

Positive Atheism

Freethought Debater

(c) Creationism and Evolution
Science and Creationism: A View From the National Academy of Sciences - a terrific resource!

The Talk Origins Archive - a huge amount of information!

The Institute For Creation Research

Answers In Genesis - many articles from their Creation magazine are available online.

No Answers In Genesis

The Human Behavior and Evolution Society
Lots of great links!

Intelligent Design? A Special Report from Natural History Magazine - presents brief articles by creationists along with rebuttals.

Creationism.org

Creation Research Society

Darwinism: Science or Philosophy? - papers from a symposium

National Center For Science Education - contains online pamphlets arguing against creationism as well as updates on current legal battles to get creationism taught in schools.

Understanding Evolution - very accessible discussion of evolution.

Victor Stenger's Home Page - contains some articles and a book in progress regarding creationism, from a former physics prof.

Origins - contains lots of papers on theism as well.

American Association for the Advancement of Science Evolution Page

Information about the International Flat Earth Society.

(d) Psychology of Religion
Psychology of Religion Page
(e) Religious Resources
The Catholic Encyclopedia - the 1908 edition online, dated but still contains lots of useful material!
Vatican website

Southern Baptist Convention website

Theology Library - links organized by topic covering many religious traditions

(f) Biblical Criticism
The Jesus Seminar Home Page - as discussed in class - the site is under construction, but contains some useful links.
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible - an online Bible with skeptical commentary.

Biblical Archeology Society - includes a few selected on-line papers from its publications.

The Skeptical Review - argues for Biblical Errancy.

TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism - articles on-line.

NT Gateway - a huge set of links devoted to the New Testament - includes many on-line papers!

(g) Miscellaneous

Shroud Of Turin Website
Religioustolerance.org provides a huge array of information regarding different religions, their stances on various moral issues, etc.

Virtual Religion Index provides a detailed organization of linke to sites relevant to religion.

3. Philosophy of Mind

The Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
A History of the Mind-Body Problem from Descartes to James

Zombies On The Web

The Brain Project

Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal of Research on Consciousness

4. Personal Identity
Research Sources on Personal Identity

On-Line Papers on Personal Identity

5. Abstract Objects
The Metaphysics Research Lab

6. Ontology

Buffalo Ontology Links Site

Ontology - A Resource Guide for Philosophers

7. Causation
8. Philosophy Of Language

Philosophy of Language Links - online papers in philosophy of language!
The Ultimate Wittgenstein On Rules And Private Language

9. Free Will
The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website - excellent set of resources by Ted Honderich
Chalmers' list of papers on free will available online

Lecture notes on free will and determinism by Norman Swartz

"Who's Afraid of Determinism?" - an article by Christopher Taylor and Daniel Dennett

E. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
1. Ancient Philosophy
The Philosophy Garden (Epicurus and Lucretius)
Pre-Socratic Philosophy

2. Modern Philosophy
History of Western Philosophy From 1492 - 1776
The European Enlightenment

The West: Enlightenment to Present - extensive materials for a history course.

3. Existentialism & Phenomenology
The Realm Of Existentialism
The Center For Advanced Research In Phenomenology

TheCry.com

4. Pragmatism
Pragmatism Cybrary

5. 20th Century Analytic
Hist-Analytic - contains links to numerous articles and other resources.

6. Web Pages Dedicated To Famous Philosophers In History

a. Links to Sites About Numerous Philosophers

Episteme Links to Philosophers

Island of Freedom - Philosophers

Kemmerling's Philosophers Page
The Window Philosophers Page

Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy

b. Classic Philosophy Texts Online
Writings of various modern philosophers
The Online Books Page (Philosophy)

Internet Public Library - Philosophy Section

The Internet Classics Archive

The Perseus Project - specializes in ancient philosophy.

Early Modern Texts - with modernized language for easier reading!

c. Links Organized by Philosopher

Aquinas

Thomas Instituut Te Utrecht

Aristotle
Aristotle's Political Philosophy Page
Kemmerling's Aristotle page

Pierre Bayle
The Pierre Bayle Home Page

Jeremy Bentham

The Bentham Project
George Berkeley
International Berkeley Society

Franz Brentano
Brentano Page
Condorcet, Marquis de
Condorcet As Mathematician

Rene Descartes

Descartes Biography
Descartes and the Legacy of Mind-Body Dualism

Rene Descartes

Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes Texts Online
David Hume
The Hume Society
The Leeds Hume Project

A Variety of Hume's Writings

Dr. Korcz's Hume on the Web

William James
William James
Immanuel Kant
Kant On The Web (Steven Palmquist's site)
G. J. Mattey's Kant Page

Soren Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard on the Internet

Julien Offray de LaMettrie
Some Texts By and About LaMettrie
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Wadsworth Leibniz Page
Leibniz the Mathematician

See the fine line of Leibniz snack foods!

Locke, John

John Locke Bibliography - with lots of additional info.

Locke Studies

Karl Marx
The Marx/Engels Internet Archive (texts online)
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne Page
John Stuart Mill

J. S. Mill - contains brief bio. and extensive list of links to his works online.

Mill from Victorian Web - lots of info.!

Friedrich Nietzsche
The Perspectives of Nietzsche

The Friedrich Nietzsche Society
Lots of useful links!

Nietzsche Source - all of his works and estate documents, letters, notebooks and all, and searchable! In German.

C. S. Peirce
Charles S. Peirce Studies
Plato
The Last Days of Socrates - a site designed to help students read Plato.

Joseph Priestley
Son of a cloth-dresser - lots of pictures!
Joseph Priestley's House

The King of Serendipity!

Thomas Reid

The Reid Society

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau Association

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell Archives
The Bertrand Russell Society

Brief Bio. by Ray Monk

Baruch Spinoza
Studia Spinoza - lots of links and works online!
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy In America
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A Brief Biography by Daniel Dennett
The Wittgenstein Archives

F. LOGIC

a. Informal Logic/Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking On The Web - an amazing site!

Mission: Critical - Tons Of Critical Thinking Practice Exercises

CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal)

Kemerling's Logic Page

Stephen's Guide to Logical Fallacies

Argument Identification

b. Symbolic Logic

Logic Primer - An Online Symbolic Logic Textbook

c. Deviant Logics

Fuzzy Logic FAQ

G. MISCELLANEOUS

1. Philosophy From Around The World
African Philosophy Resources

Polish Philosophy
Indian Philosophy and Religion

Chinese Characters and Culture - contains translations of Tao Te Ching and Analects with detailed explanations of the chinese symbols used in them.

2. Philosophy Clubs

UL Lafayette Philosophy Club
University of Colorado, Boulder Philosophy Club

University of North Florida Philosophy Club

3. Information About Philosophy Departments
a. The Gourmet Report
The Gourmet Report is a ranking of the top 50 or so Philosophy Departments around the world, including discussion of their strengths and weaknesses and links to their home pages.
b. Episteme Links to Philosophy Department Home Pages & Similar Information

4. The Philosopher's Song (Monty Python) (from YouTube)

5. (Attempts At) Philosophical Humor
Philosopher Action Figures!

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook

The Philosophical Lexicon - for those who know a lot of contemporary philosophers and what they're famous (or infamous) for, compiled by Daniel Dennett.

The Postmodernism Essay Generator - if you ever want to get a paper on postmodernism published, this is a real time saver!

Philosophy Jokes - four good ones.

Philosophy Songs - new lyrics for golden oldies - Kareoke to the classics!

Philosophy Games - provided by the Philosopher's Web Magazine.

Alan Sokal's Hoax

Singalong With Heidegger (Horst Wessel Lied)!

6. UL Lafayette Philosophy Program

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