Philosophy/Resources

Students are encouraged to use their initiative in using online and offline resources. Is there a broken link? Just delete it! Or, if you want to do something that will really help - why don't you hunt the page down and repair it?

The following links will get you started:

Wikimedia

Wikimedia wikis have a number of free resources including:

• An encyclopedic article on English Wikipedia.
  • A simpler article in Simple Wikipedia.
• An Index of Philosophers on English Wikipedia.
• An introductory textbook on Wikibooks.
• A set of quotes on Wikiquote.
• A set of source texts on Wikisource.
• A set of images on Wikimedia Commons.

Encyclopedias

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Go to the main page, then select your local mirror.
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• ISCID Encyclopedia of Science and Philosophy
• Larry Hauser's Mostly Modern Philosophical Glossary

eTexts

• Philosophy Archive Philosophy eTexts
• Project Gutenberg This is the original etext project. There are others. You should find copies of all the major works in philosophy there which are not still protected by copyright.
• Online Papers in Philosophy
• University of Adelaide Library's "eBooks@Adelaide" Free Web Books, Online
• Internet Public Library 20,000 titles. Nice.
• Search eBooks.com
• Etext Centre 8.5 million free eBooks. Don't know about notable philosophers though.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Online Books Opens at Philosophy Section.
• Philosophy of Science Archive A repository for preprints in the philosophy of science: an excellent research resource.
• Digital Text International

Online Texts

• Camus, Albert - The Stranger
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich - Philosophy of Mind
• Tarski, Alfred - The Semantical Conception of Truth

Study Guides

• Spark Notes A very useful study guide on various works of a great philosophers

Search Engines

• Google
• Lycos
• Yahoo
• MetaCrawler Searches multiple search engines.

Web Pages

• Guide to Philosophy on the Web
• Amercian Society for Aesthetics
• John Cleese "Why Philosophy is Nothing to Laugh at"
• Philosophical Gourmet Report (The Closest Thing to an Official Ranking of Philosophy Departments Around the World)
• Response to the Gourmet Report (Harvard)
• Philosophy in Cyberspace
• Philosophy Resource Directory
• Philosophy Research Directory
• Philosopher's Web Magazine
• Philosophy Now magazine
• I Love Philosophy Forum Forum for Philosophers
• Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments