Philosophy Resources Online

Ancient Philosophy

• Perseus Online Library Ancient Greek and Roman primary source texts.
• Washington State University’s Ancient Greece website; although still under construction, includes some good online primary source material.
• Ancient Greek Online Library offers a comprehensive database of primary texts, philosophical or otherwise.
• Philoctetes’ Presocratic philosophy online resource site complete with Heraclitus and Parmenides fragments, as well as Thales, Anaximander, Empedocles and Zeno of Elea.
• MIT’s Internet Classics Archive offers a host of Ancient online texts.

Medieval Philosophy

• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook hosted by the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies contains a host of primary Medieval texts and secondary literature on such texts and the Medieval era in general.
• Boethius website offering links to primary e-texts, seminar notes, and other links.
• Comprehensive St. Augustine website offers links to his works, seminars, commentaries and other resources for the study of Augustine and Augustinian tradition.
• Faith Meets Philosophy Online Resources website hosted by St. Mary’s College features links to the complete works of Thomas Aquinas and links to online commentaries and secondary literature on the Summa, also contains some other links to Augustine, Anselm and Pope John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio.
• University of Waterloo’s website AlbertiMagniE-Corpus is dedicated to making the works of the 13th century philosopher/theologian Albert the Great available online.
• Website dedicated to the dissemination of information on and e-texts from Peter Auriol.
• Teaching Materials on Medieval Philosophy offers guides to influential Medieval thinkers, their precursors and their early modern inheritors.
• Stanford University’s Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project offers exhaustive primary e-texts on major and minor Medieval and Modern authors.
• Paul Vincent Spade of Indian University’s Medieval Logic and Philosophy website, although discontinued in 2007, offers a comprehensive list of links to Medeival thinkers, problems and contemporary societies.

Early/Modern Philosophy

• The European Society for Early Modern Philosophy’s digital library and resource page for Early Modern Thought online.
• Extensive and exhaustive Early Modern Resources offers a gateway to all things Early Modern available online.
• Oregon State University’s Bill Uzgalis’16th-18th c. Philosophers is an extensive list of Early/Modern philosophers with links to their primary works and other online resources.
• Some Texts from Early Modern Philosophy.
• Readings in Modern Philosophy offers an extensive database of primary e-texts and secondary literature on major and minor figures in Early/Modern philosophy.
• The European Enlightenment website offers a general survey of many of the key figures and movements of this historical period.
• Victorian Web offers an overview of 19th c. British literature and culture.
• Peter Suber’s Notes on Women Philosophers compiles a bibliography with links where available of women philosophers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
• Website concerned with Rene Descartes and the problem of mind/body dualism.
• Lucidcafe Library webpage on Descartes with links to video, images and primary e-texts by Descartes.
• The International Association of Scottish Philosophy website provides information on and links to a host of Early/Modern philosophers of Scottish descent.
• Website dedicated to the life and works of Sir Francis Bacon.
• The University of Dundee’s Spinoza Research Project focuses on the contemporary significance and interdisciplinary connections of the work of Spinoza.
• The University of Amsterdam Library’s comprehensive website dedicated to the life and works of Baruch Spinoza, complete with bibliographies and links to every Spinoza site on the web.
• University College London’s Bentham Project houses information and links to the work of Bentham and the International Society of Utilitarianism Studies.
• Leibnizian Resources is a website dedicated to the life and work of G.W. Leibniz, complete with links to both primary and secondary e-texts as well as a comprehensive list of other Leibniz websites.
• Leibniz Translations website dedicated to the translation and online availability of lesser known works of G.W. Leibniz.
• The Digital Locke Project makes available all of Locke’s 34 manuscripts of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding before and after its publication in 1689.
• John Locke Resources website is a gateway to all things Locke on the web.
• John Locke website containing all major links to primary and secondary sources on the internet.
• Website dedicated to the life and works of George Berkeley.
• International Berkeley Society website devoted to all things Berkeley.
• Website with some works by David Hume and other links to Hume on the web.
• The Hume Society website.
• Another David Hume website devoted to scholarship of and on Hume.
• Website dedicated to the life and works of Pierre Bayle.
• Adam Smith website from Lucidcafe Library includes links to primary e-texts and other websites on Smith.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau website by Lucidcafe Library includes information on the author, links to images, videos, primary e-text links and links to other Rousseau websites.
• The Voltaire Foundation of Oxford University is dedicated to research in the 18th century, French Enlightenment and especially Voltaire.
• Lucidcafe Library Voltaire webpage with links to e-texts and other Voltaire websites.

Contemporary/Continental Philosophy

General

• The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) website contains information for persons interested in characteristically Continental Philosophy, including upcoming events, calls for papers, lists of programs, journals and societies sympathetic to Continental Philosophy, and other resources for philosophers of this ilk.
• Bruce B. Janz’s comprehensive and exhaustive Continental Philosophy website.
• Everything Postmodern comprehensive postmodern theory and culture website.
• Martin Ryder of the University of Colorado at Denver’s excellent Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought website offering links to all of the major figures in contemporary Continental philosophy
• SUNY Stonybrook’s extensive and very useful Continental Philosophy Bibliography Project.

French

• Website dedicated to the philosophy of Gaston Bachelard.
• Michel Foucault Info website includes many e-texts and other links.
• Portail Michel Foucault, Foucault Archives online.
• Comprehensive Michel-Foucault website includes bibliography, glossary, links to other sites and e-texts.
• Manchester Metropolitan University’s Deleuze Studies website.
• University of Warwick’s useful European Network in Contemporary French Philosophy.
• Centre de Georges Cangeuilhem: Histoire et philosophie des sciences du vivant et la medecine.
• University of Rhode Island’s Merleau-Ponty Circle website.
• The Emmanuel Levinas Web Page offers a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature, links to other Levinas websites and current information on Levinas scholarship.
• Paul Ricoeur gateway website offering a comprehensive set of links to Ricoeur on the internet.
• Universite de Quebec a Chicoutumi’s French philosophy/literature e-texts on the following French authors: Gaston Bachelard, Henri Bergson, Maurice Blondel, Albert Camus , August Comte, Condorcet, Benjamin Constant, Rene Descartes, Denis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Charles Fourier, Claude Adrien Helvetius, P.H.D. Baron d'Holbach ,Montesquieu, Emmanuel Mounier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Claude-Henri Saint-Simon, Georges Sorel, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Alexis de Tocqueville, Voltaire, Simone Weil.

German

Anglo-American, Analytic Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Science

• The immense Hist-Analytic database is stocked with primary and secondary resources geared to aid in the study of the history of the analytic tradition.
• American Philosophy index of links to e-texts in American philosophy.
• The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy promotes, provides a forum for, and contains a database of links to American philosophy.
• Pragmatism Cybrary offers a comprehensive and exhaustive gateway to links on the history, persons, works and ideas of American pragmatism.
• Transcendentalists website offers information, links and texts on American Transcendentalists Thoreau, Emerson, and Fuller.
• The Arisbe Peirce Gateway provides a comprehensive database for all things Peirce on the internet.
• Comprehensive William James website offers links to virtually all James resources on the internet.
• Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Center for John Dewey Studies dedicated to the life and works of Dewey.
• W.V. Quine home page turned dedication to the philosopher offers a comprehensive gateway to all things Quine on the internet.
• Website of Hilary Putnam offers links to information on the author, some of his writings and works interacting with his ideas.
• Stanford University’s Richard Rorty website includes bibliographies, links, reviews and vita.
• University of Pittsburgh’s Nicholas Rescher website dedicated to the life and work of the philosopher.
• The Bertrand Russell Archives held by McMaster University.
• The Karl Popper Web is a site dedicated to the life and work of Popper.
• The European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP), complete with a list of national analytic philosophy societies, journals, conferences/events and newsletter.
• The International Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellshcaft with lists of other Wittgenstein societies, the link to the LW archive at the University of Bergen, conferences, etc.
• David Chalmers' official website offers an exhaustive series of links to his papers, presentations and thousands of other philosopher’s websites and papers and websites on problems typical to analytic philosophy.
• Website compiling works by and on C.D. Broad.
• Arche, St. Andrew’s University’s philosophical research center for logic, language, metaphysics, and epistemology.
• Bas C. van Fraassen’s website.
• The Polanyi Society website is dedicated to the life and work of Michael Polanyi.
• The Center for the History of Philosophy and Science is dedicated to the research of natural philosophy throughout the ages.
• York University’s Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science website.
• The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology offers archives of the society’s journal, information on the activities of the society and links to other websites with similar focuses.
• The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS).
• KLI Theory Database website provides an exhaustive database for online research in evolution and cognition.
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science provides an online research forum for the study of science throughout history.
• The gateway website The History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine offers a comprehensive database of links to all things philosophy of science on the internet.
• The Philosophy of Science Association website dedicated to the promotion of research in the philosophy of science.
• The University of Pittsburgh’s Phil-Sci Archive offers an online database of past and recent scholarship in the philosophy of science.
• Scott Lehmann’s concise and eminently readable online logic course aid A Concise Introduction to Logic acts as both a primer to new students of logic or a refresher to those requiring a reminder of sound reasoning.
• Gateway to Logic offers a host of logic programs and applications for logicians of all stages.
• The Logic Toolbox offers study aid programs for students of logic.
• The Logic Café offers a free nine course tutorial on symbolic logic.
• The Skeptic’s Dictionary of logical terms.
• The Fallacy Files exhaustive list of logical fallacies.
• Critical Thinking Web offers over 100 free online tutorials in logic, reasoning and critical thinking.
• Bruce B. Janz’s Reasoning Page is a gateway site to logic and critical reasoning.

Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Value Theory, Social-Political Philosophy

• Digital Text International’s anarchism bibliography.
• Lucidcafe Library webpage on Niccolo Machiavelli including general information on the author and links to videos, primary e-texts and other websites on Machiavelli.
• The Laws of Nature and Nature’s God (LONANG Library) offers links to significant treatises in political and legal philosophy, commentaries and other contemporary writings.
• Two lectures On Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ by Ian Johnston.
• The American Political Science Association (APSA).
• The Association for Political Theory (APT).
• The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy website.
• UC, Santa Barbara’s The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive, contains audio lectures and discussions on a wide range of political issues from the 1950’s to the present.
• Keele University’s comprehensive Keele Guide to Political Thought and Ideology on the Internet gateway website.
• Public Reason: a Blog for Political Philosophers.
• Ethics Etc offers an online forum for discussions on ethics and moral philosophy.
• Ethics Updates website provides primary and secondary source e-texts and links as an aid to the study of ethics for both students and instructors.
• Public Ethics Radio contains podcasts of interviews with professional ethicists discussing current ethical issues.
• Practical Ethics is dedicated to compiling ethics-related topics in the news in order to create awareness and facilitate discussion.
• The Carnegie Council is the website for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and is dedicated to providing resources and programs for the development and promotion of ethical values in international affairs.
• Vanderbilt University’s Center for Ethics comprehensive ethics gateway site.
• The Society for Christian Ethics is dedicated to research in and dissemination of ethical theory from within the Christian tradition and the relation of this tradition to other ethical traditions.
• General bioethics website.
• Bioethics Resources on the Web of the Institutes for Public Health is a gateway website to bioethics on the web.
• The American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) is a comprehensive gateway to all thing aesthetics online.
• The British Society for Aesthetics website.

Christian Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Eastern Philosophy

• The Christian Classics Ethereal Library offers a comprehensive database of literature from the Christian tradition.
• Philosophy, Theology and Religion (PHILTAR) is a gateway website to all things philosophy of/and religion on the web.
• The Prosblogion is a philosophy of religion blog.
• Calvin College's Hekman Library Post-Reformational Digital Library
• Michael Sudduth’s Analytic Philosophy of Religion website, complete with links to other philosophy of religion websites, discussion groups and every Alvin Plantinga website on the internet.
• Michael Sudduth’s Natural Theology website.
• The Gifford Lectures online database of lectures on natural theology and the interchange of religion, philosophy and science.
• Basic Philosophy of Religion website offers introductions to classical problems in philosophy of religion.
• The Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science website offers a comprehensive encyclopedia, anthology and document e-text database of works that involve the intersection of religion, science and philosophy.
• William Lane Craig’s gateway website to his articles, debates and his ‘Reasonable Faith’ website.
• Richard T. Nolan’s general Philosophy and Religion website.
• Philip A. Pecorino’s Philosophy of Religion Online Textbook.
• Complete online Encyclopedia of Religion and Society.
• Notre Dame University’s Readings for Philosophers and Catholics.
• The American Catholic Philosophical Association is dedicated to the history of the Catholic philosophical tradition and providing resources for those within this tradition.
• British Society for the Philosophy of Religion (BSPR) provides a forum for the interchange of ideas in this field.
• The Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association (APRA) offers resources for the study of philosophy of religion.
• The Canadian Society for Christian Philosophers website.
• The (American) Society for Christian Philosophers website.
• The Evangelical Philosophical Society is dedicated to pursuing an interchange between biblical faith and philosophy and offers a host of resources to that end.
• Philosophical Themes in C.S. Lewis is a website offering tangents of intersection between the work of C.S. Lewis (and G.K. Chesterton) and typical philosophical problems and also includes other C.S. Lewis links and online resources.
• Andrew Basden’s Dooyeweerd Pages website.
• University of Nottingham’s Centre of Theology and Philosophy.
• The Secular Web is dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of a secular, naturalistic worldview on the internet in order to combat theistic beliefs.
• Claremont University’s Centre for Process Studies .
• Vedic Knowledge Online offers comprehensive resources for studying and understanding the Vedas and Vedic thought.
• All things Eastern philosophy/religion website.
• East and Southeast Asia: an Annotated Directory of Internet Resources is a gateway site to Asian philosophy, religion and literature.
• Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy offers links to key primary and secondary literature in Chinese philosophy.
• Directory to online Indian Philosophy resources.
• AtmaDharma website offers information on, logical explanations of Jainism and links to Jainism on the web.

Special Interests

• Bruce B. Janz’s incomparable Research on Space and Place website.
• Philosophy of Language website hosted by Duke University, includes psychology, neurobiology, anthropology, and sociology of language links.
• Kent Bach’s website dealing primarily with philosophy of language.
• Philosophy of Liberation Education bibliography and links.
• Living Philosophy is dedicated to the practicality of philosophy for living and is made manifest by a dramatic troupe who bring various philosophical essays to life on the stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
• Society for Women in Philosophy website.
• Philosophia Islamica, Muslim Philosophy Online, offers a comprehensive data base of primary and secondary works by/on Muslim philosophy/philosophers.
• Philosophers of the Arabs is a contemporary/modern-focused website dedicated to the current state of Islamic philosophy and its Western interactions.
• Russian Philosophy on the Intelnet is dedicated to providing information and resources to Russian philosophy online.
• Philosophy Bites offers podcasts of contemporary philosophers speaking on classical problems or contemporary issues.
• The Backdoor Broadcasting Company broadcasts academic conferences, public symposia and lectures in order to facilitate public access to current academic research.

Online Encyclopedias and Comprehensive Philosophical Databases

• The peer-reviewed Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is the most comprehensive.
• The University of Tennessee at Martin’s hosted and peer-reviewed Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP).
• Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names website.
• Andrew Chrucky’s very useful Philosophy of _________ and ________­_ Philosopher website that includes links to major online databases for all major areas of philosophy.
• The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (v. 2.0).
• Garth Kemerling’s Philosophy Pages.
• Project Gutenberg’s vast array of online texts.
• The University of Adelaide’s eBooks@Adelaide e-text database of classic works in philosophy, literature, history, science, exploration and travel.
• EpistemeLinks vast (over 19,000 links to philosophy-related resources on the Internet) online search engine.
• Marxist.org offers a comprehensive online philosophy text database.
• The Liberty Fund hosted Online Library of Liberty website offers a comprehensive online database dedicated to writings on liberty and associated concepts.
• Erratic Impact’s philosophy search engine, includes text and online resources for academic and general use.
• The Perseus Online Library website includes the most comprehensive online Ancient Greek and Latin text database as well as miscellaneous rare literature from other periods and places.
• Alex: Catalogue of Electronic Texts offers an extensive text database in American, English and Western philosophical writing.
• PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy offers a massive database for searching bibliographies, journals and articles, in all areas of philosophy.
• The Radical Academy online resource database of Ancient, Medieval, Eastern, Modern and Contemporary thought.
• Akamac extensive database of e-texts.
• Brian Leiter’s blog Leiter Reports: a Philosophy Blog offers updates and discussions on current events as well as various rankings.
• Nigel Warburton’s blog Virtual Philosopher contains many audio interviews, discussions on current events.
• The Guide to Philosophy on the Internet hasn’t been updated since 2003, but is still a useful aid for tracking down helpful resources.
• General philosophy link database, but more eclectic as it includes a great amount of resources on Eastern thought.
• The Indiana Philosophy Ontology project (InPhO) is a taxonomy of every major area of philosophy with links pertinent to each.
• The Noesis: Philosophical Research Online website offers links to online journals, philosophy associations and philosophy professors, as well as topical indexes.
• Digital Text International ‘Online Papers and Books’, an expansive database of online texts.
• Proceedings from the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy held at Boston University in 1998, this website holds over 1000 papers given at that conference.
• European Graduate School (EGS) YouTube channel (Zizek, Agamben, Badiou, Delanda, Nancy, etc.).
• University of Waterloo’s comprehensive philosophy resource page with links to every major area.
• The British Academy’s online lectures provides audio recordings of lectures and/or symposia in the humanities and social sciences.
• Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts website.
• University of Virginia Library’s Dictionary of the History of Ideas online.
• MIT’s OpenCourseWare free online courses.

Online Philosophical Journals

• Philosophy Compass a journal compiling articles from all major philosophical areas.
• Minerva: an Internet Journal in Philosophy.
• Kritike: an Online Journal of Philosophy, a peer-reviewed inter/intra-disciplinary e-journal.
• Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology.
• The Rutherford Journal, the New Zealand Journal of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
• Sorites: Digital Journal of Analytic Philosophy.
• Disputatio International Journal of Philosophy.
• Abstracta electronic journal in analytic philosophy.
• Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory and Praxis.
• The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy (EJAP).
• Isagoria online journal of moral and political philosophy.
• Ars Disputandi online journal for the philosophy of religion.
• Marburg Journal of Religion.
• Democratiya online journal of social-democratic, anti-totalitarian thought, the archives are now on the Dissent(magazine) website.
• Postmodern Culture journal with only back-issues available.
• Essays in Philosophy general biannual online journal.
• Janus Head online journal of postmodern art and literature and continental philosophy.
• The Australasian Journal of Logic refereed and free online journal dealing with all aspects of logic.