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The Way of Being | A Journey
Useful Links
…and Search Engines
http://www.horizons-2000.org
An introduction to general
sources, philosophy, news,
and search engines
Anil Mitra PhD, Copyright © 2019
Related
pages: Action
links | Favorites | Bibliographies
| Reading
CONTENTS
The links
General
sources
Some
everyday links (to be kept current)
Related
links
Encyclopedias
and other sources of information
Knowledge
Project
Libraries
Digital
text, media and libraries
New
publications, cinema etc
News
(state of the world)
Local News
(state of the world)
Politics
Essays
Philosophy
General
Online
Bibliography and other Resources
Institutes
and Associations
Encyclopedias
and Dictionaries etc
Databases
Disciplines
and Philosophers
Ontology
and Metaphysics
Logic and
its Philosophy
Epistemology
Ethics
Metaphilosophy
Aesthetics
Political
Philosophy
Philosophy
of Religion
Philosophy
of Education
Aristotle
History of
Philosophy
Mind,
Consciousness, and Free Will
General
Science
Physics
Mathematics
Search
engines and subject directories
General
Metasearch
Subject
Directories
Philosophy
Plans for
this resource
The following are dated
Encyclopedias and other sources of information
Knowledge
Project
…and related links: this project has
the following enhancing factors: (1) New conceptions of knowledge and being
and the range of knowledge defined by the essay Journey in Being—especially
the divisions labeled ‘Theory
of being,’ ‘Human
world,’ and ‘A system
of human knowledge.’ The newer essay Journey
in being-detail has much detail. See Home for
additional information. (2) A variety of studies of the range of human
knowledge, for which also see Home, the Site map, and, e.g., Possibilities
for study. Related sites
It is critical that the knowledge
project is about both ideas and action.
The listing begins with three sources
selected for the notion that a comprehensive overview of human knowledge and
action—and an execution of this idea (these sources may of course be
subject to criticism with regard to the general notion of comprehensive
overview and the execution; however inclusion is suggestive rather than
dogmatic, of in process rather than final systems, and of multiple rather
than single systems). The first is System
of human knowledge, a representation of human knowledge. It is a
modification, based in the universal metaphysics, of the system of the 15th
edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. The second is the representation of human
knowledge in the Propćdia
(see Encyclopedias). The third source
is the Great Ideas of Mortimer J. Adler.
Libraries
Also see Knowledge Project
and Libraries, above.
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Archive.org—“ Internet
Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies,
software, music, websites, and more.”
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Some search engines and subject
directories have news service and analysis. These search facilities can,
of course, also search by topic and region. This section and the next three
(Politics, Science, and State of the world—Local) are a collection of
mainstream and alternative news sources. A variety of sources helps estimate
the reliability of information:
Philosophy
Online Bibliography and other Resources
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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”.
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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”.
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PhilPapers,
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy
maintained by the community of philosophers. We monitor all sources of
research content in philosophy, includingjournals, books, open access archives,
and personal
pagesmaintained by academics. We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy.
Our index currently contains 2,339,555 entries categorized in 5,395
categories. PhilPapers has over 190,000 registered users.
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Note that the essay Journey in Being, also see the Home
page, treats a number of the philosophical disciplines, especially
Metaphysics, The theory of objects, Logic, Mind, Cosmology, The nature of
human being and the human
enterprise-society-ethics-history-civilization-faith from a novel point of
view and that, if the claims made there are correct, these treatments are
ultimate (in senses defined in the essay).
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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”.
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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…
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HathiTrust
Digital Library | Millions of books online, HathiTrust is a partnership of academic
& research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles
digitized from libraries around the world.
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The Metaphysics
Research Lab, 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.
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Abstract Objects: An Introduction
to Axiomatic Metaphysics, interesting outline of
the 1983 book by Edward N. Zalta.
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Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy article on Metaphysics.
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Wikipedia article on Metaphysics.
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University of Bristol page on Metaphysics of
science.
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Existence
and Being, Heidegger’s 1949 essay, a short introduction to his
famous Being and Time.
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Ethics Updates “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”.
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Metaphilosophy is a recognized
discipline that asks questions about philosophy—from Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy—Metaphilosophy “What is philosophy? What is
philosophy for? How should philosophy be done?”
Is Metaphilosophy distinct from
philosophy or a discipline within philosophy? The question does not have a
consensus answer. If philosophy is regarded as constituted of its
traditional disciplines—metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics,
‘specialty’ disciplines such as philosophy of mind, and the
philosophies of the academic disciplines, then Metaphilosophy is not part
of philosophy. However, there is a problem with that reasoning for (1)
philosophy is (also) an academic discipline and (2) Metaphilosophy
certainly seems philosophical. On the other hand if philosophy is regarded
as defined as an activity, then depending on how that activity is
characterized Metaphilosophy may well be part of philosophy.
If we were to characterize
philosophy as the most general discipline regarding the content and method
of the relation between thought and the world, then philosophy would ask
and address questions about its own nature and methods (of course there
would be caveats such as that once a discipline acquires a definite
character and special subject matter it tends to separate from
philosophy—but such caveats have second order caveats, e.g. that such
separations are perhaps not matters of principle but of division of
academic labor). On this characterization Metaphilosophy would be
philosophy—a discipline within philosophy.
Following are some links:
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Contemporary Metaphilosophy—from
the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Metaphilosophy
Themes and Questions—Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College—“I
made this list of questions primarily to help students appreciate what is
distinctive about the branch of philosophy we call Metaphilosophy.”
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Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography,
compiled, David Chalmers—six parts.
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Online Papers on Consciousness, compiled, David
Chalmers—three parts.
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Zombies
on the
web, compiled by David Chalmers. “Philosophical
zombies… are found in philosophical articles on consciousness. Their
defining features are that they lack conscious experience, but are
behaviorally (and often physically) identical to normal humans. ”
“…they raise very interesting [philosophical] issues”.
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BrainMeta.com, “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.
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SWIF Philosophy of Mind - Sito Italiano web per la
Filosofia, Luca Malatesti, General Editor.
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Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
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Journal
of Consciousness Studies
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Center
for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona
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Yahoo! Philosophy of Mind
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Philosophy of Mind - Duke University, portal links to
organizations, journals, projects, people and that are of interest to those
concerned with philosophy of mind.
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Thomas Nagel,
Web Site with Online Papers
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Alternative Philosophical
Conceptualizations of Psychopathology, Hubert Dreyfus
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Philosophy of Mind—outdated—Anil
Mitra. Also by the author: Journey in Being |
The
Problems of Mind and Consciousness
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Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind, Ed. Chris Eliasmith
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The Information Philosopher,
Bob Doyle,
“solving philosophical problems with the new information
philosophy”.
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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
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Wolfram MathWorld: ‘The
Web's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource’
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Hilbert’s 23
Problems—with notes on solutions and unresolved problems | Problem list
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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.
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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.
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The
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences™ (OEIS™)—included
because the site looks interesting.
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engines and subject directories
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Search engines and subject
directories are the primary user oriented tools for Internet search.
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Search engines search the Internet—usually stored as
a local cache that is compiled by search ‘spiders’ and
‘robots.’ In practice there is cross-over in function between
search engines and directories.
Metasearch typically compiles information from
search engines and directories when the user makes the search request; smart
engines may filter and categorize results before presentation
Subject Directories
Subject directories list sites according to topic
and include the academic disciplines and much more of general interest. Compiled
manually, therefore usually less up-to-date than the search engines. Many
directories are compilations from other sites
This list used to be longer in the late 1990’s and
early 2000’s but we seem to do less Web Research this way
anymore—as of January 2012. Some of the sites listed earlier no longer
exist and many others have become commercial sites
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Also see Philosophy
Guides and related sites maintained by philosophers.
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Yahoo Philosophy
(Google and Altavista Philosophy Directories appear to have been
discontinued).
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Daily review—a section
of links to be reviewed every date to keep ‘abreast of things’.
Before doing this answer the question ‘What is it that I want to
accomplish?’ Remember that random and spontaneous search is important
too.
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Variations of the previous point—Weekly
/ Sunday / Month, Year? / Topics: What and why?
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Disciplines and personal,
cultural, human endeavors—this would become a larger project and
might occasion a separate web page (this the links on this page might be a
subset of those on the proposed page).
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