Most of the following links are philosophy-related.
Table of Contents
1. Research
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) – free and very extensive encyclopedia that is available online.
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) – free online encyclopedia, but not as extensive as the SEP (right now, at least).
- Wikipedia – free online encyclopedia not specific to philosophy and can be edited by anyone (so not scholarly, but quite useful).
- PhilPapers – a database of philosophy papers.
- Sympoze – it’s like Digg for academics.
- JSTOR – one of the top scholarly journal archives with many philosophy journals. [Wk]
- The Philosopher’s Annual - a collection of the top philosophy articles published in the year.
- Phil. Pages Philosophy Dictionary – it’s free! Search for philosophy vocabulary/lingo.
- Runes Dictionary of Philosophy – also free, but older (1942), Dagobert D. Runes, ed.
- Dictionary of Philosophy – free, edited by Dagobert D. Runes.
- CSUS Eureka Resources – philosphy resources provided by the library at California State University, Sacramento.
- Episteme Links – categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet.
2. Journals
Note: This list is not exhaustive; Wikipedia has a more extensive list of philosophy journals.
- Journal of Philosophy – published by Columbia University.
- Philosophical Review – edited by Cornell University and published by Duke University Press.
- Noûs – edited by Kim and Sosa, published quarterly by Blackwell Publishing.
- Philosophy & Public Affairs – edited by Charles R. Beitz, published by Blackwell.
- Mind – published by Oxford University Press.
- Philosophy of Science – edited by W. Michael Dickson, published by University of Chicago Press.
- Philosophical Studies – edited by S. Cohen, published by Springer Netherlands.
- Synthèse – covers epistemology and the methodology and philosophy of science, published by Springer.
- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research – edited by Ernest Sosa, published bimonthly.
- Journal of Consciousness Studies – an interdisciplinary journal dedicated entirely to the consciousness.
- Philosophical Topics – operated by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas.
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science – edited by David Papineau, et al., published by Oxford UP.
- Ethics – edited by John Deigh, published by University of Chicago Press.
3. Writing
- Writing in Philosophy – my page on writing philosophical essays.
- CSUS Philosophy Writing Guidelines – a good guide for writing philosophy papers from the CSUS philosophy
department. - Citation Styles Guide – a good guide at Sonoma State’s library website.
- Top 10 Grammatical Errors – by Robert Pasnau at Boulder.
- Pryor’s Philosophy Writing Guidelines – guidelines on writing a philosophy paper – by Jim Pryor at Princeton.
4. General
- List of Philosophical Topics – a gateway to philosophy entries at wikipedia.org.
- The Philosophy Portal – a gateway to philosophy entries at wikipedia.org.
- Grad School Tips – advice on applying to graduate school (not just for philosophy).
- Philosophical Gourmet Report – rankings of philosophy Ph.D. programs.
- Advice on Applying to Grad School – from Mathew Lu.
- Critical Thinking.org
- Edge.org
- Matt McCormick’s Philosophy Site – the website of one of my philosophy mentors at CSUS.
- Philosophy Forums – (self-explanitory).
- Philosophy Now – a philosophy magazine.
- Spinsanity – Countering rhetoric with reason – no longer active, but there are still archives.
- The Dualist – Stanford’s Undergrad Journal of Philosophy.
- Creative Commons – a nonprofit organization that offers a flexible copyright for creative work.
- Analytic vs. Continental – Brian Leiter’s description of these two philosophical traditions.
5. Online Texts
General
- E-server – search this database for free online texts.
- E-server: Philosophy – here is a link to the philosophy section of E-server, which lists all the philosophy texts available there by author
- Google Directory – google’s listing of online philosophy texts.
- Online Books 4 Free – a list of philosophy texts available for free on the Internet.
- Internet Classics Archive (MIT) – bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994.
Ancient
- Perseus Digital Library – online ancient texts.
- Plato (429-347 B.C.E.)
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)
Early/Late Modern
- Early Modern Texts – translated by Jonathan Bennett; texts have been updated to be more readable
- John Locke (1632–1704)
- George Berkeley (1685-1753)
- David Hume (1711-1776)
- A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)
[adelaide] - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
[adelaide] - An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
[ adelaide] - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
- A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- The Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787)
- Prolegamena to any Future Metaphysics (1783)
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)
- The Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
- The Critique of Judgement (1790)
Contemporary
- Bertrand Russell – free online texts of his writings.
- Wittgenstein’s Tractatus – free online version, Ogden translation, on Luke Manning’s website.
- The Bible – read it online for free (Old and New Testaments, various versions).
- Scary Bible Quotes – no need to find them on your own.
- Evil Bible – passages from the Bible that make God look pretty immoral.
6. Fun/Humor
- Cute Overload – yeah, that’s right.
- ICanHasCheezburger – yeah, that’s right.
- What Would Tyler Durden Do? – focused on bringing you the latest gossip and news about rich and famous celebrities. And then making fun of them.
- John Cleese Talks about Philosophy – MP3′s on the nodogs site.
- Structured Procrastination – an essay on procrastination by the philosopher John Perry.
- Some Pics of Philosophers – by Steve Pyke.
- The Flying Spaghetti Monster!! – a satirical site on creationism vs. evolution.
- Philosophical films – lists films with philosophical import, also have discussion questions.
- Philosophy Games – (self-explanitory).
- Profession Jokes – Philosophers – some philosophy jokes.
- Famous Former Philosophy Majors – (self-explanitory).
- Philosophical Lexicon – a list of humorous philosophy terms, managed by Daniel Dennett.
- 3D Stereograms – eyetricks.com – neat eye tricks (for fun).
- Game of Life – a neat but simple little program to play God, created by John Conway.
7. Blogs
- Arché Methodology Project – U. of St. Andrews’s Arché program blog.
- Atheism: Proving the Negative – by Matt McCormick.
- Atheist Media – atheist and other related vids, etc.
- Certain Doubts – devoted to matters epistemic.
- Ethics, Etc. – a forum for discussing contemporary philosophical issues in ethics and related areas.
- The Ethical Werewolf - by Neil Sinhababu.
- Experimental Philosophy – a blog conerncing the use of experiemental methods in philosophy.
- Fragments of Consciousness – David Chalmer’s blog.
- Leiter Reports – Brian Leiter’s blog, which has lots of posts about philosophy as well as other issues.
- List of Philosophical Web logs – a nice list compiled by Chalmers.
- PEA Soup – dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and academia.
- Think Tonk – a blog by Clayton Littlejohn.
- Thoughts Arguments and Rants – contributors include: Andy Egan, Brian Weatherson, Carrie Jenkins, Gillian Russell, Kenny Easwaran.
- Wide Scope – a philosophy blog that ranges over philosophy and other fun stuff.
8. Other
- Philosophy Forums – (self-explanitory).
- Philosophy Talk – a philosophy radio show out of Stanford.
- Philosophy Radio Show – UCSB’s Guerrilla Radio Show, waging war against idiocy.
- Women in Philosophy – (self-explanitory).
- Pictures of Philosophers – by Steve Pyke.