Philosophy Links

• Note: This page is no longer maintained. There may be dead links. Final update: October 9, 2009. R. Carroll

Meta-Encyclopedia

Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Meta-Dictionaries

Philosophy Dictionaries
Legal Dictionaries

Dictionary

Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Encyclopedias

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Behaviorism
• The Chinese Room Argument
• Stoicism
• French Deism

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Links to Philosophy Sites

• Philosophers in Cyberspace (Yahoo!)

Individual Philosophers

• Pierre Bayle
• Bertrand Russell
• Nietzsche
• Leucippus
• Democritus
• Baron d'Holbach
• Epictetus
• William James (The Will to Believe: An Address to the Philosophical Clubs of Yale and Brown Universities. Published in the New World, June, 1896)
• Galileo
• Galileo and the Inquisition
• Francis Bacon
• Descartes
• Spinoza
• The Spinoza Study
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Kant
• Kant on the Web

Philosophical Topics

• materialism
• free will
• argument from design
• MIND AND BODY: RENÉ DESCARTES TO WILLIAM JAMES Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College
• The Philosophers Magazine on the Internet
• The Prisoners' Dilemma

Philosophical Texts online

F. Bacon Essays
Michel de Montaigne, Essays
Pascal, Pensees
Hobbes, De Cive (the Citizen);
Descartes Discourse on Method
Leibniz, Monadology
Spinoza, Ethics (Elwes translation)
Berkeley, Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, "What is Enlightenment?"
 

Books of Interest

• The Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins 
• The Physics of Immortality : Modern Cosmology, God and the
  Resurrection of the Dead by Frank J. Tipler
• The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler (Contributor) 
• The Creation Hypothesis : Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer by J. P. Moreland (Editor), Phillip E. Johnson (Designer) 
• Nature's Destiny : How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe by Michael Denton 
• The Design Inference : Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory) by William A. Dembski
• Does God Exist? : The Debate Between Theists & Atheists 
  by James Porter Moreland, Kai Nielsen (Contributor)

Associations

The American Philosophical Association
The American Civil Liberties Union

Becoming a Critical Thinker

Critical Thinking Mini-Lessons

• Project Censored - Is the News Media Censoring the News?
• Center for Media and Democracy
• Brill's Content (a magazine about the mass media; sadly, now defunct)
• The Daily Howler - a daily broadside reviewing the work of the Washington press corps
• Roper Center/Newseum - Interactive Museum of News
• Mass Media Bunk - how the News Media botches up stories dealing with science and the paranormal
• Video News Releases (VNRs)
  
  Junk Journalism
  
• Junk Journalism by Eric Boehlert, The Nation (Aug 6, 2001)
• Best of the Web Today JAMES TARANTO  Wall Street Journal, (July 23, 2001), (July 24, 2001) and (August 6, 2001)
  
  Advertising
  
• Political commercials (from PBS)
• Advertising Age
  
  Eyewitness testimony
  
• "What Jennifer Saw" - Frontline Program on Eyewitness Testimony
  
  Managing the News
  
• Super Bowl Sunday and Violence Against Women
  
  The Blur between News & Entertainment
  
• The Quest to Interview Ted Kaczynski (The "Unabomber")

The Internet

• "Evaluating Quality on the Net" by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries, Babson College, Babson Park, MA
• Critical Thinking in an Online World by Debra Jones
• Current Net Hoaxes
  
  Experts
  
• The Brookings Institution - a think tank on topics related to public policy
• Newswise
• YearbookNews.com - the yearbook of experts, authorities and spokespersons
• Institute for Public Accuracy

• Statistics every writer should know
• STATS - Statistics and the media
• Voter News Service - the real source of those "competitive" news media early election calls (from Network America)
• Zogby International (polling firm)
• Nielsen Media Research Group
• The Nielsen Net Ratings (Nielsen polls of Internet use)

• The Skeptic's Dictionary
• Alternative Science
• National Center for Science Education Scientific Evolution vs. Metaphysical Creationism
• New Scientist Planet Science
  
  from The Skeptic's Dictionary
  
• Ad hoc Hypotheses
• Occam's Razor
• pseudoscience

Legal Dictionary

• Law.com Dictionary

General Law, Liberty or Justice sites

• Law.com - a single, comprehensive destination for legal information and e-law services on the Web
• First Amendment - Constitutional Issues
• FindLaw: Cases and Codes: U.S. Constitution with Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States
• Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
• FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893
• The Smith Act
• U.S. Department of Justice
• The American Civil Liberties Union
• Download any House or Senate bill

Equality

• The Illegality and Unconstitutionality of Slavery

Eyewitness Testimony & DNA

• "What Jennifer Saw" - Frontline Program on Eyewitness Testimony

Insanity Defense

• Mental Health Law - An Overview

Capital Punishment

• British Columbia Civil Liberties Association Position Paper

The On-line Books Page

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