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Café Philosophique  (UK).
Contemporary philosophy articles. Submissions welcome.

Children's philosophy, philosophy for children

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Overview and discussion on the introduction of philosophy into the school curriculum; by Michael Pritchard.

Austrian Center for Philosophy with Children and Youth

Childhood and Philosophy
Journal of the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children. Articles in different languages in pdf format.

ChildrenThinking
Set up by practising teachers in order to provide support and training in the area of Philosophy with Children (PWC) coordinating a range of courses and systems of mentoring and support for teachers and students.

Database for Teaching Philosophy
Multilingual database with resources on teaching philosophy to children.

Federation of Australasian Philosophy for Children Associations

Filosofía para Niños
Argentina center for Philosophy for Children.

ICPIC - International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children - Aims to strengthen communications among those in different parts of the world who are engaged in philosophical inquiry with children.

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC)
Montclair State University. Information on goals and principles behind philosophy for children.

Menon-pages
A Comenius project of 11 European partners which aims to encourage teachers' professional growth by developing their dialogical sensitivity and skills through philosophical enquiry.

P4C - New Zealand
An organisation dedicated to involving children in a philosophical 'community of enquiry'.

Philosophy For Kids
Materials to use in doing philosophy with children, with the emphasis on story resources.

Philosophy Toolbox
Philosophy Resources for Learning and Teaching. The American Philosophical Association.

Sapere
Guide to Philosophy for Children in the UK by SAPERE (Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education)

Sophia
European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children.

Teaching your child philosophy

Thinking
Printed journal devoted to philosophy for children.

What is Philosophy for Children?
The goal has nothing to do with trying to convert children and teenagers into professional philosophers, but instead, its aim is to develop and preserve their critical, creative and caring thinking and attitude.

Chinese philosophy

Chinese philosophers

Confucius
Wikipedia entry.

Works by Confucius.
Project Gutenberg

Laozi ( Lao Tzu)
Wikipedia entry.

Tao Te Ching,
an etext.

Tao Te Ching
Wikipedia entry.

Mencius
Wikipedia entry

Mencius
Works by Mencius at Project Gutenberg.

Chinese philosophers,
a web list from Wikipedia.

Buddhism
A guide to Buddhist studies on the internet. Buddhism educational resources.

Buddhism
Wikipedia entry.

Center for Daoist Studies
A web-based resource for the study and practice of Daoism..

Chinese philosophy resources.
Daoism (Taoism), Confucism, Mohism, Ming jia.

Street Philosopher's Society, Hong Kong.
Western philosophy for Chinese people.

Su Tzu's Chinese Philosophy Page.
Links to classic texts.

Taoist Texts, Tao-te Ching, translated by James Legge. Internet Sacred Text Archive

Taosim Wikipedia entries.

Taoism. Mr Sage's Philosophical Tao Site
This website intends to give a more scientific, astro- physical, philosophical, as well as traditional esoteric views on Taoism. Includes links toTaoism webpages.

Wikipedia entry on Chinese philosophy.

Conferences
Epistemelinks listing of philosophy conferences.
Consciousness
Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona.

Consciousness.
Web resources, compiled by David Chalmers.

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Promoting research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy and other disciplines.
Contemporary philosophy, contemporary philosophers
Contemporary Philosophy
A short overview, with hyper-text references.

Courses, schools, universities

University philosophy departments

A web directory of academic philosophy departments,
from The Open Directory Project.

European academic departments.

Free Online MIT Course Materials - Linguistics and Philosophy
Free and open online Linguistics and Philosophy course materials from MIT. Lecture notes, exams, audio video lectures, textbooks by MIT professors.

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

Pathways to Philosophy distance learning programs
Launched in August 1997, the Pathways web site is the leading internet distance learning site for philosophy courses online. 

U.S.A. academic departments of philosophy.
Cyberspace, hypertext and critical theory overvew (Brown Unversity).
Economics, art, political, social, technology issues.

D

Dialectics

Dialectics
Wikipedia entry.

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Wikipedia entry.

Dialectic
Terms explained.
Dictionaries

Dictionary of Philosophical terms and names.
From NOESIS.

Directories, encyclopaedias, portals

Episteme Links
A variety of philosophy resources including events, texts, images, journals and university departments.

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet

Erratic Impact
Categorized by history, subject and author, a meta-index featuring annotated links, test resources, with community services for students and teachers.

NOESIS
A topical index of philosophical research online.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Wikipedia entry on Philosophy

Directory of philosophers on the internet. Philosophers' webpages.
Oxford University
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Empirical philosophy, Empiricism

Empiricism
Wikipedia entry.

Logical positivism or logical empiricism.
Wikipedia entry.

Early Modern Experimental Philosophy Blog
The University of Otago

Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia


Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Standford Encyclopedia
Epistemelinks
Philosophy resources, a philosophy search engine, philosophy websites.
Epistemelinks. A Philosophy Search Engine

Epistemology

Naturalized Epistemology
by Richard Feldman.

Social Epistemology
by Alvin Goldman.

Virtue Epistemology
by John Greco.

Synthese
An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

Research articles in Epistemology
PhilPapers

What Is Epistemology?
An introduction to the topic by Keith DeRose.

Certain Doubts
A group blog run by Jonathan Kvanvig, with many leading epistemologists as contributors.

The Epistemological Lifeboat
by Birger Hjørland & Jeppe Nicolaisen (eds.)

Epistemology Papers
A collection of papers.

Epistemology Introduction
by Paul Newall at The Galilean Library.

Teaching Theory of Knowledge
An electronic publication from The Council for Philosophical Studies.

Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
PhilosophyOnline.

The Peripatetic
A practical introduction to the theory of knowledge.

Stanford Enyclopedia of Philsophy entry on epistemology.

Theory of Knowledge

Erratic Impact
A Philosophy Research Base. The Philosophy Research Base, categorized by history, subject and author, is a meta-index featuring thousands of annotated links, text resources and community services for students and teachers conducting research in the field of philosophy.

Esoteric philosophy, mythology

Esoteric Philosophy
The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. A private library located in Amsterdam. 

The New Alchemy Web Site
Divided into over 1300 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 2000 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy.

The Rosicrucian Fellowship

The Rosicrucian Order
AMORC, internationally known as the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.

Ethics. See also Ethics
Aristotle' s Virtue Ethics,
by Dr. Charles Ess.

Virtue Ethics without Character Traits,
by Gilbert Harman, Princeton University.
Rosalind Hursthouse
PDF File on Virtual Ethics. O.U.P.

Virtue Ethics. Rosalind Hursthouse.

Etexts, philosophy text databases

E-texts database from Internet Classics Archive, M.I.T.

The English Server
Canonical philosophy texts.

Canonical Philsophy Texts online from The English Server.
Philosophy on the EServer. This collection contains canonical philosophic texts and links to scholarly philosophic organizations. The English Server has other collections in addition, however, in critical theory, history, and in eighteenth century studies, which also address philosophical interests and concerns; feel free to examine those as well, if interested.

Hanover Historical Texts Project
An international database. Initiated in 1995 by the History Department and Hanover students. The Project's principal aim is to make primary texts readily available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. European, US, Asian and African historical texts.

PhilPapers
A searchable index to works of both well-known and little-known philosophers on various philosophical topics throughout the web.

CogPrints: Philosophy
A repository of online papers in various subject areas of philosophy.

EBESCO
A Superior Bibliographic Database Covering Scholarly Research in all Major Fields of Philosophy
Produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center, this current and comprehensive bibliographic database covers scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, this resource features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.

The Galilean Library
The Galilean Library is an expanding collection of essays on the sciences and humanities.

The Paideia Project Online: Archive Sections
Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. The main index for the archive of contributed papers; ongoing contributions.

Perseus Digital Library
Texts and Translations of ancient Greeks and Romans.

Philosophy Archive
A large selection of philosophy e-texts in HTML form. Sorted by author.

Philosopher's etext directory, a German site.
Philosopher's texts from Hannah Arendt, to Etienne Bonnot Condillac, to Mary Woolstonecraft.

Philosophy e-texts, classic texts. 
Noesis. Philosophical Research Online
Events

Existentialsm

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Film/Philosophy of film

Film
Philosophy of film discussion, film philosophers, film philosophy online texts. Ajournal and discussion salon promoting a philosophical review of cinema and film studies. 


Film Philosophy Salon

Forums

Blogs
EpistemeLinks database of Philosophy Blogs.

Forum for European Philosophy
The Forum is an educational charity which organises and runs a full and varied programme of philosophy and inter disciplinary events in the UK.

Philosophy Chat Forum (PCF)
French philosophy  See: French philosophy and: Philosophers
Existentialism: a primer.

Existentialism

Philagora.net
Centre de resources culturelles.


Modern French Philosophy:
A Study of the Development Since Comte, by John Alexander Gunn.

Political philosophers.
Open Directory Project web index of political philsophers.
The Friesian School
A non-peer-reviewed electronic journal and archive of philosophy, inaugurated on line July 6, 1996, attempting a "Reformation of Philosophy."

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German philosophy
See: German philosophy and  Philosophers

German Idealism

German Philosophy and Philosophers

German philosophy.
Wikipedia entry.
Ghosticism
The Ghosis Archive

The Ghostic Society Library
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Nag Hammadi Library
The Global Ideas Bank
Institute for Social Inventions, London, UK.

Global morality.
The Centre for the Study of Global Governanance

Greek philosophy

The ancient Greek philosophers.
Background information, history, biographies, portraits.

Ancient Greek philosophers.
A list from Wikipedia.

Aristotle
Aristotle. Aristotle link pages and websites from  Epistemelinks.
Aristotle. Project Archelogos. The site aims at the construction of a database which
will contain all the philosophical arguments of the works of Plato and Aristotle.
Aristotle etexts. Non-contradiction.com, a free, central place for information about
Aristotle and Aristotelian philosophy.
Aristotle's Ethics. Project Gutenberg
Aristotle, Wikipedia entry.
Online Aristotle live texts. A comprehensive selection from Epistemelinks.
Nichomachean Ethics

Lucretius
Lucretius. An the Nature of Things, Lucretius. The Internet Classics Archive
Lucretius. The Internet Classics Archive. Works by Lucretius.
Lucretius, Wikipedia entry.
Lucretius. Works by Lucretius. Project Gutenburg

Parmenides
Parmenides. An introduction.
Parmenides. Parmenides, by Plato.
Parmenides Wikipedia entry.

Plato
Plato biography from St. Andrews University, UK.
Plato, Wikipedia entry.
WWW resources for Plato. Plato's dialogues, forms, doctrines.
Plato's Dialogues, the complete works translated into English by Benjamin Jowett.
Platos' Dialogues, an introduction.

Pythagoras
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, Fragments and Commentary,
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans,
Pythagoras. Wikipedia entry.

Socrates
Socrates biography, Socrates dialogues. Meno, Critias, Symposium, Gorgias, Crito, Phaedrus, Ion, The Republic, Protagoras (translated by Benjamin Jowett).
Socrates, Wikipedia entry.
Socrates. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Last days of Socrates. A site is designed to help first year philosophy students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo.
Socrates, Plato's dialogues from etexts from Project Gutenberg.

Xenophanes
Xenophanes, Wikipedia entry.

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet.
Peter Suber, Earlham College.

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History of western philosophy

History of Western Philosophy
A directory of ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, early modern philosophy, recent modern philosophy.

History of Philosophy from 1492 to 1776.
The Age of the Voyagers. (from Oregon State University).

Historians and philosophers.
An index of significant historians and philosophers.
How do I read, write and think philosophically?
Some helpful pointers from a philosopher.

Humour in philosophy.

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The International Association for Scottish Philosophy
The International Association for Scottish Philosophy website provides full information on every aspect of a philosophical tradition that includes David Hume, Thomas Reid and Adam Smith, and discount purchases to members.

Islamic philosophy

Islamic Philsophy Online

Islamic Philosophy resources.
Mulla Sadrah Islamic Philosophy Research Institute

Italian philosophy/Filosofia   

Italian philosophers. Filosofi italiani.
Wikipedia entries.

Italian philosophy sites. SWIF.
Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia.

Universita di Milano: Dipartimento di filosofia

Universita di Firenze (Florence): Dipartimento di filosofia

Universita di Roma (La Sapienza): Facolta di filosofia
J

Journals
See: Philosophy journals:

Electronic Philosophy journals

On-line information about journals in philosophy and related disciplines.
Oxford University

Journals published on the World-Wide Web or by e-mail.
Web sites for traditional, printed journals. 

Poesis,
a subscription based reference and publishing service offering searchable access to the full text of hundreds of current, recent, and back issues of a growing number of philosophy journals.

Print and Electronic Philosophy Journals
Links to over 500 print and electronic journals. Epistemelinks.
K

Kurt Gödel Society Homepage

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Language . Philosophy of language

Logic/Philosophical Logic

An Introduction to Logic

BUBL links to philosophical logic webpages.

Medieval logic internet links.

Logical Fallacies. An Encyclopedia of Errors of Reasoning
The ability to identify logical fallacies in the arguments of others, and to avoid them in one’s own arguments, is both valuable and increasingly rare. Fallacious reasoning keeps us from knowing the truth, and the inability to think critically makes us vulnerable to manipulation by those skilled in the art of rhetoric.

Open Directory Project
A list of philosopsophical logic websites.
Mathematics . History of Mathematics
British Society for the History of Mathematics
Web resources, articles.

Coolmath.com
A maths amusement park. Penrose tessallations, fractals.

Medieval philosophy

Metaphysics

Open Directory Project directory of metaphysics websites.

Ontology

Buffalo Ontology Site
The Buffalo Ontology Site contains information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications. It also provides links to other ontology sites and announcements of relevant conferences and publications.

Epistemelinks metaphysics/ontology web resources.

Ontology
A Resource Guide for Philosophers, by Raul Corazzon 

Ontology, formal ontology.
Formal ontology from Husserl to the most recent developments by Cocchiarella, a site by Paul Corazzon. PDF essays by and about Nino Cocchiarella. Bibliographies, ontological arguments for the existence of God, top ontology websites.

Mind. Philosophy of Mind

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