Abstracta
http://www.abstracta.pro.br/english/Default.asp
This is the homepage of Abstracta, an online-only international philosophy journal (ISSN: 1807-9792) which focuses on the following areas: Epistemology; Logic; Metaphysics; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind and Psychology; and Philosophy of Science. It publishes articles and book reviews, and receives submission written in English and Portuguese. This website allows access to all contents featured in the journal since the first volume was published in 2004. These are presented in PDF and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for access. The site also contains the journal's submission policy and information about how to join their mailing list. Links are further provided to over 1000 electronic texts by over 300 philosophers; as well as to other relevant websites. The journal is edited by Andre Abath; Leonardo de Mello Ribeiro and Carlos de Sousa. This homepage is also available in Portuguese.
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An essay towards a new theory of vision (4th ed.) [by George Berkeley]
http://www.psych.yorku.ca/classics/Berkeley/vision.htm
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (4th ed.) is an e-text version of the classic work by the 18th century Irish empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. (Berkeley's most famous works are A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous). The Essay was first published in 1709, with further editions published later in 1732. Whilst of seminal importance in the history of psychology, the essay is also a key text in the study of Berkeley's philosophy. Much of the Essay takes the form of philosophical argument, and Berkeley in this work introduces his theses that the things we genuinely perceive by sight do not exist beyond the mind, and that the things we perceive by sight differ in kind from the things we perceive by touch. Berkeley here also investigates the perceptual processes involved in our apprehension by sight of objects at a distance. He rejects the received view of his day, and presents an alternative theory (that we learn by experience to associate certain cues within our "flat" visual field with tactual experiences of objects existing at a distance from us). Berkeley's theory in turn became the received view in psychology for at least 150 years after the first publication of the Essay. The e-text version itself is presented in plain type, without hyperlink facilities, and it is not stated whether the text is taken from an original copy of the 4th edition, or from a more recent preparation.
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Arché : centre for the philosophy of logic, language, mathematics and mind
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~arche/
Based at the University of St. Andrews, Arché was founded in 1998, with a mission to foster research of excellence on fundamental questions in analytical metaphysics, formal and philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of mind. The Centre receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for several major research projects (some ongoing, some now completed): The Logical and Metaphysical Foundations of Classical Mathematics; The Grudgesetze Translation Project; The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality; and Vagueness: its Nature and Logic. The site carries detailed descriptions of these projects and selections from published or pre-print results (many in PDF format), and invites philosophers to collaborate. Indeed, the centre is proud of its commitment to collaborative work, and regards itself as a focal point for scholars in the field. Information on fellowships, graduate studies and events are all available on the site, as is the Arché Twiki, a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas.
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Bas C. van Fraassen
http://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/
Bas van Fraassen is an influential philosopher of science and philosophical logic, currently at Princeton University. This, his personal website, contains a wealth of information both professional and personal. A CV, a teaching section, a thorough bibliography of publications, and excerpts from works in progress, are offset by pictures of rock climbing and the family cats. Van Fraassen has also compiled bibliographies of articles and reviews pertaining to several of his books. Some excerpts and reviews are in PDF format. Access to some of the material on courses and seminars taught is restricted to Princeton students. Van Fraassen is a prolific and wide-ranging philosopher, who has written on science, logic, semantics, epistemology, metaphysics, art, literature and religion. This site would be of use to anyone interested in keeping tabs on his vast and continuing contributions to philosophy.
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Certain doubts
http://fleetwood.baylor.edu/certain_doubts/
Certain Doubts is a philosophy blog devoted to epistemological questions. Founded and administered by Jonathan L. Kvanvig, the blog boasts an impressive list of contributors from the field of theory of knowledge, including Keith DeRose, John Pollock, Timothy Williamson, and Ernest Sosa. Posts are a mixture of philosophical pieces intended to provoke discussion (to aid browsing, the right hand side bar includes a useful list of the most popular posts, and of those which have accrued the most comments) and subject-related news items, including publication announcements and calls for papers. The blog also offers a number of pieces discussing methods of ranking philosophy journals and individual epistemologists, plus US philosophy departments and programmes.
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Charles S. Peirce
http://www.peirce.org/
This website is devoted to the American philosopher and polymath Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914). Active in a great many areas of philosophical research, Peirce is probably best known for his contributions to logic and semiotics, and as one of the fathers of American pragmatism. The website starts with an inadequate biographical sketch of Peirce, although after this the content improves somewhat. There is a selected bibliography of a small number of his published papers, six of which are reproduced in full. These include his well-known "On a New List of Categories", three essays on cognition, and two "illustrations of the logic of science". The third section of the site covers the community of Peirce scholars. It includes links to pages about the progress of the edition of his complete works, instructions for signing up to an email discussion list, and links to other related materials.
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Cognitive questions
http://users.california.com/~mcmf/index.html
This site hosts a series of papers by Teed Rockwell on issues in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with replies from philosophers including Richard Rorty (1931- ) and U.T. Place (1924-2000). Notable areas covered include: non-cognitive aspects of mental life; pragmatism; consciousness; mental causation; non-reductive materialism; the modularity of mind; and atomistic ontology and mind. There are also selected archives from the Cognitive Questions mailing list dialogue that spawned the site, links to related papers, and to a chapter-by-chapter summary of Rockwell's book on a non-dualist mind/brain identity theory. This site would be of interest to advanced students and researchers working in the areas of consciousness, cognition, and the mind/body problem.
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Computational epistemology laboratory
http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/
The Comptutional Epistemology Laboratory (CEL) is a cognitive science research facility based at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Cognitive science refers to that research on cognition which utilises the combined insights of several disciplines including: philosophy; artificial intelligence; linguistics; and psychology. Headed by Paul Thagard, Professor of Philosophy at Waterloo, the CEL website is broken into several sections: cognitive science at the University of Waterloo; software; bibliographies (including a glossary of cognitive science terms); and other sites of interest. Perhaps most usefully for the student or researcher of cognitive science, the site allows the free download of several software packages designed to enable analysis of cognitive science data. The site is well-designed and easy to navigate. Although the CEL mainly represents and promotes the research of Professor Thagard, it also provides a useful list of links to other online cognitive science resources.
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Condillac
http://www.hku.hk/philodep/dept/tm/papers/condill/
This brief introduction to Condillac's life and ideas was originally written as an encyclopaedia entry but is published on the Web as a one-off site. Born Étienne Bonnot, Condillac (1714-1780) was an important French empiricist philosopher who claimed that all mental operations could be derived from sensation alone. This website consists of a short biography of Condillac's life, a slightly longer section on his thought and importance to philosophy, and a final section consisting of a short, selective bibliography.
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Critical rationalist
http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tkpw/tcr/tcr-home/tcr-home.html
The Critical Rationalist was a short-lived electronic journal (ISSN 1393-3809) devoted to pursuing and elaborating the philosophy of Karl Popper (1902-1994) and, in particular, his method of 'Critical Rationalism' as outlined in his work Conjectures and Refutations. Note the journal appears to have ceased pbulication in 1998 and there are only three extant past issues, all of which can be accessed on this site in a variety of formats. In the Popperian tradition, this site eschews philosophy as linguistic analysis, focusing on 'real' philosophical problems such as probability, induction, the mind-body problem, the nature of scientific theories and the philosophy of history. The site also exposes Popper's own philosophy to rigorous critical analysis: 'Comprehensively Critical Rationalism' (CCR). This site will be of use especially to anyone with an interest in Karl Popper and the philosophy of science.
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Culture & the mind
http://www.philosophy.dept.shef.ac.uk/culture&mind/
'Culture & the Mind' is a five-year interdisciplinary research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The project seeks to "investigate the philosophical consequences of the impact of culture on the mind and the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of culture." The project has three main areas of investigation, each of which have short summaries on the website: 'Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics'; 'Norms & Moral Psychology'; and 'Artefacts & Material Culture'. The website has profiles of the Project Director and members of the Organising Committee, and hyperlinks to their external websites. The project will run until 2009, and there are plans to place publications online on the website in future.
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Epistemology lecture notes
http://spot.Colorado.EDU/~tooley/LectureNotes.html
This site contains detailed outlines of seven lectures for an undergraduate course on epistemology run by Professor Michael Tooley at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The subjects covered include: the concept of knowledge; skepticism; theories of justification; perception and the external world; other minds; and knowledge of the past. There is also a relatively brief introductory lecture on epistemology. A detailed table of contents allows for easy searching of particular topics. Despite some unfortunate colour choices for individual pages, the notes are clear and accessible, covering many aspects of the topics in some detail. While it is unlikely that they would stand alone as a first introduction to epistemology, an undergraduate with some background in the subject may find these notes useful for revision purposes.
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Epistemology page
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~kd47/e-page.htm
Created by prominent epistemologist Keith DeRose (1962- ), this site provides information on and a guide to further resources in epistemology and related areas. For teachers and students, there are recommendations for textbooks, anthologies, and collections of original papers on epistemology, with links through to publishers' websites, where available. There is also a set of links to online courses with syllibi. For the undergraduate in particular, there is an introductory essay by DeRose on epistemology. For the postgraduate, there is a detailed discussion of universities in North America and the U.K. with strengths in epistemology, as well as a summary of recent noteworthy faculty moves. Finally, there is an extensive list of important contemporary epistemologists, with links to their home or departmental web pages, plus a bibliography of their notable publications since 1995. Near the top of the page is a link to a separate annotated bibliography on contextualism (the view that knowledge is essentially context-relative), which is a particular area of interest to DeRose. There is also a link to the epistemology blog site, Certain Doubts, to which DeRose is a contributor. The Epistemology Page would be of value to students, researchers, and teachers interested in contemporary theory of knowledge.
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Epistemology research guide
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kak7409/EpistemologicalResearch.htm
The Epistemology Research Guide is primarily a gateway to electronic resources within the philosophical field of contemporary analytic theory of knowledge. The resource is developed and maintained by Dr Keith Korcz, a professor of philosophy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His main aim is to provide access to academic papers available online. To this end, the website comprehensively lists over 1000 links to both individual papers (some in PDF) and in certain cases to the personal Web pages of their authors. The papers are listed both alphabetically by author and by general subject area within epistemology, albeit without synopses or critical notes. Access is also provided to sets of lecture notes for epistemology courses offered at other universities. In addition, there are lightly annotated links to sites with philosophy papers and those devoted to contemporary analytic theory and epistemology blogs; as well as ones with bibliographic resources in epistemology and others that offer information on how to locate philosophy books that are in print. The site is well laid-out, easy on the eye, and simple to navigate. It should be an invaluable resource for philosophy students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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Future of humanity institute
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/
'The Future of Humanity Institute' (FHI) describes itself as... "a unique multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford" operating as part of the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy. The Institute seeks to engage in pioneering research in the ethics of areas such as: 'Human enhancement'; 'Global catastrophic risks'; 'Rationality and wisdom' in decision-making; and 'Future technologies'. The FHI website offers a full description of FHI staff, and there are also progress reports to download in PDF format. Video is available for some of the guest lectures at the FHI. The pages that detail each of the main research strands also offer full-text PDF papers for download, and links to FHI weblogs.
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George Berkeley (1685 - 1753)
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/Berkeley/
This is a list of electronic resources on the life and works of Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753), compiled by mathematician David Wilkins. There is a selection of both short and long biographies of Berkeley, and links to complete versions of Berkeley's texts, a number of which Wilkins has prepared himself for electronic distribution. There is also a separate section on the Analyst controversy -- Berkeley's attack on the method of mathematical analysis employed by Isaac Newton (1643-1727) and others. The original attack, plus various responses and counter-responses to it are all made available here, along with brief introductory comments that situate the writings in the context of the debate. This site is notable in its inclusion of important works by Berkeley, which are here often made available in different editions where they exist, and in a variety of electronic formats. Editions and versions used are clearly indicated, and the site is easy to navigate.
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Gyula Klima : Yale lectures
http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/phil/klima/lectures.htm
This website, developed and maintained by Gyula Klima, a professor of philosophy at Fordham University, makes available the lecture notes he used whilst teaching an introductory philosophy course for Yale's Directed Studies Programme from 1991 to 1993. Topics covered are as follows: 'Plato on immortality in his "Phaedo"'; 'Isagoge'; 'De Bono: Boethius' "De Hebdomadibus"'; 'St Thomas on Boethius' "De Hebdomadibus"'; 'St Thomas Aquinas on being and essence' (lecture notes and handout); 'Causa prima'; 'The last scholastic: Descartes'; and 'The vanishing of substance'. This resource is suitable for those seeking a user-friendly introduction to these subjects. Anyone wishing for a more in-depth discussion of some of these topics is directed to Professor Klima's list of publications, which can also be accessed from this site.
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Husserl database
http://www.ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp/~jsshama/HUA-home.html
This is the website of The Husserl-Database - a Japanese project devoted to the founding figure of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). The database allows users to search for references for terms used in Husserl's work, in the original German: page and line numbers are returned in conformity with the standard edition of Husserl. The site is not simply a database, however. It also contains supplementary information about the database, including papers on the database itself. A short biography and introduction to Husserl's thought is provided through a link, and there is another link to the Husserl Society of Japan. Note that some of this supplementary material on the site is only available in Japanese.
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Husserl page
http://www.husserlpage.com/
The Husserl Page is a website dedicated to providing easy access to online resources related to the life and thought of the philosopher and father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). The site provides a detailed biographic chronology of Husserl, thorough information on Husserl archives, links to many full texts of Husserl's lectures and essays freely available across the Web, and extensive bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. There are also links to Husserl-related announcements, organisations, and sites concerning Husserl or phenomenology. The site is accessible and an ideal starting point for those wishing to find online scholarly resources related to Husserl.
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Hyle : international journal for philosophy of chemistry
http://www.hyle.org/
The Hyle website provides full-text access to the journal, Hyle, a refereed journal of philosophy of chemistry (ISSN 1433-5158) published in electronic form twice yearly and also available in print as an annual volume. It also provides extensive scholarly and practical information on the philosophy of chemistry. Articles in Hyle deal with problems in the epistemology, methodology, foundations, and ontology of chemistry and its subfields, as a distinct branch within the philosophy of science. The journal provides a forum for discussion as well as book reviews. It has a substantial international scientific board clearly identified on the home page. The full text of the journal is available on the site and is fully searchable. Most articles are in English but some are in German. Additional features on the website include a bibliography of resources on philosophy of chemistry, biographies of some philosophers of chemistry, a book review service, a well-maintained conference calendar, detailed conference reports, a journals section with links to tables of content for related journals both electronic and print, and links to pertinent sites.
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Interview between W. V. Quine and Yasuhiko Tomida
http://www.wvquine.org/quine-tomida.html
This site contains the transcript of various interviews conducted in 1992 between Yasuhiko Tomida, a Japanese philosopher who is also responsible for creating the site, and W. V. Quine, the great American philosopher of language and epistemology. The interviews are divided up into different titled sections in which various aspects of Quine's thought is discussed, including pragmatism and naturalism, as well as his responses to Carnap and Davidson. The text is also annotated with references, and was included in Tomida's 1994 book, 'Quine and the Contemporary American Philosophy'. The presentation is somewhat austere but perfectly clear.
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John Locke's An essay concerning human understanding
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Philosophy/Locke/echu/
John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is an e-text version, with online search engine, of the sixth edition of the classic work by the 17th century English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). Locke was an empiricist (empiricism: human knowledge derives ultimately from the deliverances of our senses), and the Essay Concerning Human Knowledge was his major philosophical work. Therein he proposes, amongst other things, his theories of metaphysics and knowledge. In particular, Locke was keen to offer philosophical support for the corpuscularian movement in physics, and to popularise the distinction between primary and secondary qualities of body. (Corpuscularianism: the theory advocated by Issac Newton amongst others that the behaviour of objects is to be explained by the behaviour in turn of its minute particles or corpuscles; primary qualities: properties such as size and shape that are taken to obtain in objects independent of our perceptions; secondary qualities: properties such as colour and taste that are taken to obtain in objects only as far as we perceive them to do so).The e-text itself is presented in plain text in a window (whose size can be varied) within the main resource page. There are useful hyperlinked indices that divide the text into its constituent books, chapters and sections. The resource also provides a search engine that allows the user to search the text for phrases and terms; the results being displayed in hyperlinked lists.The e-text itself is stated to be based on an original HTML version by Roger Bishop Jones, although the URL provided by the site for this version was not responding at the time of cataloguing. It is not stated which print edition of the text the e-text is taken from.
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Kent Bach's home page
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/
Kent Bach is professor in the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His personal home page includes online versions of his publications in the area of the philosophy of language, especially speech-acts and conversational implicature. Bach is also concerned with philosophical problems surrounding referring and belief-reports, and issues at the intersection between mind and world, such as self-deception and truth. Aside from articles on these topics, he has also published a large number of reviews and encyclopaedia entries, also included on the site. Also featured near the bottom of the home page is a select set of links to philosophy and other sites of interest.
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KLI theory lab
http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/index.html
The KLI Theory Lab originates from the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Austria. It is a comprehensive database that allows users to make efficient searches for online resources in the domain of science, philosophy, evolution and cognition. The site is divided into a number of sections, in order to aid speed of search. Sections include: AI and computing; artificial life; cognitive science; cultural evolution; epistemology and philosophy of science; history and social studies of science; philosophy of biology; philosophy of mind. Each section consists of a brief introduction to the subject, and a partly-annotated list of links to periodicals, conferences, societies, institutions, personal websites, and other resources connected with the field. Searches can be performed using author name, title, or key word. Note that at the time of reviewing, certain sections were under construction, and a non-negligible number of links broken or outdated.
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Language
http://www.duke.edu/~pk10/language/language.htm
Language is a website compiled and written by students at Duke University. It presents succinct introductory essays on language and its relations to the following areas: philosophy; neurobiology; psychology; and cultural anthropology. There is also a general essay by the editor of the website. Of prime interest to philosophers is the essay by Marnie Riddle, which outlines the history and basic concepts of the various movements surrounding logical empiricism (including logical positivism), ordinary language philosophy and its roots in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), and some more recent developments in philosophy of language. The other essays also contain material relevant to philosophy of mind, epistemology, and language, such as discussions of the work of the behaviourist B.F. Skinner (1904-1990), and the linguists Noam Chomsky (1928-), and Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941). The essays are clearly divided into sub-sections and a bibliography for each is provided. The essays may be of use to students who are seeking some basic information on language and its significance in certain areas of philosophy.
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