Philosophy: An Online Resource Guide, subtitled “Wise Old Sayings”, this site is more than just that. It is in fact a useful general resource for sites and topics in philosophy.

The Philosopher's Zone, “with David Rutledge”, originally maintained by David Chalmers.

The Way of Being, my site, which employs and attempts to augment content and method from the history of thought—more than a site on philosophy or history of thought.

Institutes and Associations

American Philosophical Association.

American Philosophical Society.

The Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries etc

Encyclopedia Britannica—(2-volume Propædia, 12-volume Micropædia, 17-volume Macropædia, and 2-volume index of 1985). The current online version of the Britannica seems to represent a lowering of standards. However past editions of Britannica have been the standard in some ways. The system of knowledge of the 15^th edition (in Propædia—also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propædia) is useful as base from which to begin an organization of knowledge. Some thinkers would criticize the idea of such organization; however organizations are useful especially if not dogmatic; and today we can easily reorganize human knowledge from various viewpoints using, e.g. database technology.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Principal Editor Edward N. Zalta.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, General Ed. James Fieser.

Wikipedia—Philosophy entry, Philosophy category.

Databases

HathiTrust Digital Library | Millions of books online, knowledge generally, HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Indiana Ontology Philosophy Project “We offer a variety of tools for students, researchers, programmers and scholars. The ontology currently covers philosophical ideas, thinkers, and journals”.

Philosopher's Index, “is the Most Authoritative Online Bibliography in Philosophy. This premier bibliographic database is designed to help researchers easily find publications of interest in the field of philosophy. Serving philosophers worldwide, it contains over 650,000 records from publications that date back to 1902 and originate from 139 countries in 37 languages”.

PhilPapers, as of Dec 2, 2022, “PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. We monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy. Our index currently contains 2,610,210 entries categorized in 5846 categories. PhilPapers has over 320,000 registered users”.

Disciplines and Philosophers

Ontology and Metaphysics

Abstract Objects: An Introduction to Axiomatic Metaphysics, interesting outline of the 1983 book by Edward N. Zalta.

Existence and Being, Heidegger’s 1949 essay, a short introduction to his famous Being and Time.

Indiana Ontology Philosophy Project, broken link, Dec 2, 2022, but was interesting—“We offer a variety of tools for students, researchers, programmers and scholars. The ontology currently covers philosophical ideas, thinkers, and journals”.

Metaphysics Research Lab, The, Stanford University—the premise: metaphysics is the discovery and study of laws that systematize the fundamental abstract objects presupposed by physical science; the abstract objects of concern are the basic mathematical and logical objects such as numbers and sets.

Ontology - Descriptive and Formal, Raul Corrazon, useful for recent metaphysics—has a table of descriptive and formal ontologists, readings, definitions, the structure of ontology, problems and history of ontology, links…

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Metaphysics.

Wikipedia article on Metaphysics.

Logic and its Philosophy

Philosophy of logic—Wikipedia; Philosophy of Logics—good if a little old, Susan Haack;’ Quantum Logic and Probability Theory, from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; A Half Century of Quantum Logic--What Have we Learned?, D.J. Foulis, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts.

Epistemology

The Epistemology Home Page, Keith DeRose (April 9, 2021—redirects to the author’s page at Yale campus press).

Ethics

Ethics - Wikipedia—this will be supplemented.

Ethics Updates–Dec 2 2022 – currently not functional—“designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students… intended to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics”.

Metaphilosophy

Contemporary Metaphilosophy—from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Metaphilosophy Themes and Questions—Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College—Dec 2 2022 – connection to the site is not secure—“I made this list of questions primarily to help students appreciate what is distinctive about the branch of philosophy we call Metaphilosophy.”

Aesthetics

Aesthetics On-Line, April 9, 2021—the site was unresponsive (originally—the official web site of the American Society for Aesthetics).

Political Philosophy

List of political philosophers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Political philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Political philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, Political Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy], Political Studies Association.

Philosophy of Religion

Buddhist philosophy, Christian philosophy—Wikipedia , Hindu philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, Islamic Philosophy Online., Jewish philosophy - Wikipedia, Philosophy of Religion—Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Philosophy of Education

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, State of the Ph.D.—observations on the value of education.

Aristotle

Aristotle—Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

History of Philosophy

Feminist History of Philosophy.

History of Philosophy, useful, outlines eastern and western philosophy, a part of The Proceedings of the Friesian School maintained by Kelley L. Ross.

History of Western Philosophy (has some originality), Periods of Indian Philosophy (not original), and History of thought and action (not original). These are the author’s works.

History of Western Philosophy, a part of Philosophy Pages maintained by Garth Kammerling.

Mind, Consciousness, and Free Will

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

BrainMeta.com, inclusion here is not subscription to the ideas, “BrainMeta is a community site that was established for the purpose of accelerating the development of neuroscience through web-based initiatives, which include the development, implementation and support of a wide range of neuroinformatics tools, services, and databases. BrainMeta also functions as an internet hub for fostering communication between individuals involved with the neurosciences.” site created and maintained by Sean Mikula.

Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona.

David Chalmers’ very useful home page.

Journal of Consciousness Studies, Editorial board.

General Scie nce

New Scientist, The scientific World.

Ph ysics

Eric Weisstein's World of Physics—entries on Astrophysics, Electromagnetism, Experimental Physics, Fluid Mechanics, History and Terminology, Mechanics, Modern Physics, Optics, States Of Matter, Units and Dimensional Analysis.

Mathem atics

Seven Millennium Prize Problems—(1) P versus NP problem, (2) Hodge conjecture, (3) Poincaré conjecture (solved, see solution of the Poincaré conjecture—Grigori Perelman), (4) Riemann hypothesis, (5) Yang–Mills existence and mass gap, (6) Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness, and (7) Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.

The Millennium Prize Problems are sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute which offers a US$1,000,000 prize for the (first, correct) solution of each of the problems.

Search engines and subject directories

Search engines

Bing, Dogpile, Google, lycos.

Search engine related

Ask.com (ask questions), SearchEngineWatch (now focuses on Search Engine Optimization), WebServer Survey.

Subject Directories

Galaxy, Internet Public Library (writing academic papers), SciCentral.

Plan

Periodic review of concept and topics; check for broken and irrelevant links; add links.

Add news outlets in languages other than English—currently there is a link to German outlets.

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