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…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.’ 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

Encyclopedias and more

State of the world

A number of search engines and subject directories have news service and analysis. These search facilities can, of course, also search by topic and region

Philosophy

General

§ EpistemeLinks: For Philosophy Resources on the Internet—Tom Stone

§ Guide to Philosophy on the Internet—Peter Suber—no longer updated

§ Philosophy Around the Web, by Peter J. King—“The main purpose of this site is to act as a guide and a gateway to philosophy resources on the Internet”

§ Philosophy On the Web, by Arno Wouters—less comprehensive than the other similar sites listed here but has some interesting links especially in: philosophy projects and software

§ Erratic Impact—“Worldwide Philosophy Resources”

§ Online Bibliographies on Philosophy, Consciousness and Such, maintained by David Chalmers

§ Web resources related to consciousness, philosophy, and such, maintained by David Chalmers

§ The Philosophers Magazine, general philosophy, current interest, accessible, devoted to careful thought

§ The Royal Institute of Philosophy, with links to Articles that I have enjoyed reading, information on the RIP journal Philosophy, and a popular online philosophy journal Think

§ Journey in Being, the author’s site that covers the major disciplines of philosophy but is more than a site devoted to philosophy

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

§ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Editorial Data, Principle Ed. Edward N. Zalta

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

§ Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind, Ed. Chris Eliasmith

Disciplines and Philosophers

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)

§ Aesthetics On-Line, the official web site of the American Society for Aesthetics

§ 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.”

§ Ontology and metaphysics: 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… | 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 | Abstract Objects: An Introduction to Axiomatic Metaphysics, interesting outline of the 1983 book by Edward N. Zalta, included as a specialty item | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Metaphysics | Wikipedia article on Metaphysics | University of Bristol page on Metaphysics of science | Existence and Being, Heidegger’s 1949 essay, a short introduction to his famous Being and Time

§ Logic, Peter Suber. This website does not have links for ‘Quantum Logic:’ 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 | Guide to Philosophy and Logic, Paul Wong

§ The Epistemology Home Page, Keith DeRose

§ Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain | Philosophy of Education Society of the United States | Philosophy of Education—Frank Adler

§ Philosophy of Religion: There is no site on philosophy of religion that I have found to be representative and thorough. Peter Suber’s Guide and the other pages linked here have relevant links. Here are some useful sites devoted to the philosophy of specific religions: Islamic Philosophy Online | Buddhist philosophy | Christian Philosophy—apparently not maintained as of December 2007 but see Christian philosophy—Wikipedia and many others, i.e., use a search engine | Hindu philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online | Jewish Philosophy, Belief, and Practice - ou.org | Jewish Philosophy from Erratic Impact

§ Political Philosophy: Political philosophy and theory on the internet—University of British Columbia Library Site developed by Iza Laponce | An extensive index to political philosophy on the Net from Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia [English edition by Heather Lunergan] | Political Philosophy Resources—Louisiana State University—apparently not maintained as of December 2007 | Political Philosophy—resources from the Political Studies Association in the UK—apparently not maintained as of December 2007

§ Aristotle: NON-CONTRADICTION.COM - Aristotle and Aristotelianism—Maintained by Chris Howard

History

History of Western Philosophy: Summary Outline Patrick Distante, July 2001 | 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, a part of Philosophy Pages maintained by Garth Kammerling | Feminist History of Philosophy, a part of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | History of Philosophy Quarterly, an advertisement | G. W. F. Hegel, selections from Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Translated by E. S. Haldane; (1892-96) | Erratic Impact’s History of Philosophy resource… and Site-Map | The author’s History of Western Philosophy, Periods of Indian Philosophy, and History of thought and action

Mind and Consciousness

§ Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography, compiled, David Chalmers—six parts

§ Online Papers on Consciousness, compiled, David Chalmers—three parts

§ 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”

§ Science And Consciousness Review, “for historical reasons, we have no scientific community for exploring consciousness” and “many people feel that we need an international forum to build a sense of shared community. SCR is an effort in that direction.” Edited by Bernard Baars, Antti Revonsuo, and William P. Banks

§ 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

§ SWIF Philosophy of Mind - Sito Italiano web per la Filosofia, Luca Malatesti, General Editor

§ PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness, A Journal of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

§ Journal of Consciousness Studies | Editorial board

§ Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona

§ Yahoo! Philosophy of Mind

§ Philosophy of Mind - Duke University, portal links to organizations, journals, projects, people and that are of interest to those concerned with philosophy of mind

§ Thomas Nagel, Web Site with Online Papers

§ The Mindful Things Project, a project at the Department of Philosophy, Monash University… “The Mindful Things project focuses on the mind-body problem in the context of ancient Greek, classical Indian, and contemporary philosophy of mind. Our aim is to investigate whether or not there is a single ahistorical phenomenon—having a mind—that all three traditions address…”

§ Alternative Philosophical Conceptualizations of Psychopathology, Hubert Dreyfus

§ Philosophy of Mind, Anil Mitra. Also see… Journey in Being | Essays on Mind | Home

§ Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind, Ed. Chris Eliasmith

Search

Search engines and subject directories are the primary user oriented tools for Internet search

General

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

Metasearch typically compiles informations 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 upto date than the search engines. Many directories are compilations from other sites

Philosophy

§ Also see Philosophy Guides and related sites maintained by philosophers

§ Yahoo Philosophy | Google Philosophy | Altavista Philosophy