The worldwide philosophical community has worked to produce a number of resources open and available to all.
If you search carefully, you can find guides to philosophical writing and guides to the study of philosophy courses, exhaustive listings of philosophical associations, links to works by and about various philosophers, lecture notes from classes at colleges and universities across the English-speaking world, images of philosophers, links to print journals and on-line electronic philosophical journals, philosophy newspapers, discussion groups, etc.
There is no reason to be an isolated thinker - if you don't want to be. Community and discussion are there for the taking. Joint us.
General Directories of Philosophy on the WWW
Among the more useful set of links to philosophical resources is at Monash University in Australia - Philosophy in Cyberspace
Another premier index is The Guide to Philosophy on the Internet by Peter Suber of the Philosophy Department at Earlham College.
Here's how Suber's Guide is organized:
Table of Contents
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Guides |
Philosophers | Topics | Associations |
| Journals | Teaching/Learning | Etexts | Bibliographies |
| Mailing Lists | Newsgroups | Projects | Preprints |
| Jobs | Dictionaries | Quotation | Miscellany |
Search Engines Limited to Philosophy
Episteme Links is a search engine at that allows you to find items after the engine searches philosophically relevant sites on the web. All you need to do is to enter key words.
The same and be cone from Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet. Also available is Noesis: Philosophical Research Online.
Reference Works in Philosophy
Reference materials available include the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
For primary texts, check out The WWW Virtual Library: Philosophy.
Comparing Philosophy Departments and Programs
And if you want to do some research on what philosophy departments look like around the world, you can use the directory of philosophy programs, and if you want to examine an analytical ranking of those departments, go to The Philosophical Gourmet Report, 1998-2000.
*Note: This is a very orthodox ranking of departments with a viewpoint from which the philosophy of science, logic, and a certain conception of analytic philosophy are regarded as the central concerns of philosophy. Not so for ethics, social and political in this report.
These listings are, of course, not exhaustive. There is a number of other, fine resources. The material above, however, will get you started.
