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Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Encyclopedias

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

The Catholic Encyclopedia

Links to Philosophy Sites

• Philosophy Sites on the Internet
• Philosophy Resources
• Philosophers in Cyberspace (Yahoo!)
• Famous philosophers

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 (IEP)
• Galileo Galilei (CE)
• Galileo Galilei: Institute and Museum of the History of Science of Florence, Italy
• The Galileo Project at Rice University
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective (by Joseph Dauben)
• Galileo and the Inquisition
• Francis Bacon
• Descartes
• Malebranche
• Hobbes
• Spinoza
• The Spinoza Study
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Hume 
• Kant
• Kant (CE)
• Kant on the Web
• Copernicus
• Leibniz

Philosophical Topics

• materialism
• free will
• argument from design
• scholasticism
• MIND AND BODY: RENÉ DESCARTES TO WILLIAM JAMES Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College
• The Philosophers Magazine on the Internet
• 17th century views of the mind
• The Prisoners' Dilemma

Philosophical Texts online

Nicolaus Copernicus Dedication to The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
F. Bacon Essays; The Advancement of Learning
Michel de Montaigne, Essays
Pascal, Pensees
Hobbes, Leviathan; De Cive (the Citizen);
Descartes Discourse on Method; Meditations on First Philosophy
Leibniz, Monadology
Spinoza, Ethics; also Ethics (Elwes translation)
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous; Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Hume, The Hume Archives (access to several texts by Hume); An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, "What is Enlightenment?"
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Books of Interest

• The Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins 
• The Physics of Immortality - Physicist Frank Tippler thinks physics can prove God exists (book review)
• 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

• Project Censored - Is the News Media Censoring the News?
• Center for Media and Democracy
• Brill's Content (a magazine about the mass media)
• 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
• Ethically challenged by Lori Robertson (plagiarism in journalism on the rise)
• Video News Releases (VNRs)
• Medialink - creator of VNRs
• TVN - creator of 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
  
• Ad Critic -keep up to date with the latest ads
• 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
• Evaluating Internet Research Sources
• 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

• About Polling - including margin of sampling error
• Statistics every writer should know, especially Margin of error
• STATS - Statistics and the media
• Pollsters: Margin Of Error Or Credibility Gap?
• Voter News Service - the real source of those "competitive" news media early election calls (from Network America)
• The Gallup Organization
• The Center on Policy Attitudes (latest public opinion polls)
• Zogby International (polling firm)
• Nielsen Media Research Group
• The Nielsen Net Ratings (Nielsen polls of Internet use)
• Number Watch - All about the scares, scams, junk, panics, and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats, so-called scientists and others who try to confuse you with wrong numbers.

• The Skeptic's Dictionary
• Alternative Science
• Scientific Explanation by Garth Kimmerling
• National Center for Science Education Scientific Evolution vs. Metaphysical Creationism
• New Scientist Planet Science
• Mike Kohary's Science and the Art of Skeptical Thought
• Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman
• Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
  
  from The Skeptic's Dictionary
  
• Ad hoc Hypotheses
• Occam's Razor
• pseudoscience

Philosophy courses taught by Dr. Robert T. Carroll, Sacramento City College

Philosophy 4 - Introduction to Logic

Philosophy 6 - Introduction to Philosophy

Philosophy 23 - Law, Justice and Punishment

Legal Dictionaries

• Legal Dictionary
• Law.com Dictionary

Supreme Court Justices

• John Marshall (1755-1835)
• Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)
• William Hubbs Rehnquist (b. 1924)

General Law, Liberty or Justice sites

• Law.com - a single, comprehensive destination for legal information and e-law services on the Web
• U.S. Constitution:
• 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
• U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database from Northwestern University
• Taney's Dred Scot opinion
• The Smith Act
• U.S. Department of Justice
• The American Civil Liberties Union
• ACLU Briefing Paper on Freedom of Expression
• Institute for First Amendment Studies
• The National Law Net (esp. for federal law links)
• Death Penalty Information
• Download any House or Senate bill

Equality

• Abstract of Paul Butler's "Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System," 105 Yale Law Journal 677-725 (1995).
• Don't like the law? Get on a jury by Dr. Reginald Shareef
• Frederick Douglas: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
  July 5, 1852
• The Illegality and Unconstitutionality of Slavery
• One Hundred Historical Documents relating to slavery in America
• What is Battered Woman's Syndrome?
• Mass. High Court Allows Battered Woman's Defense by Justin Pope Associated Press Tuesday, December 26, 2000
• Regina v. Butler (Canada's Pornography Law) (1992)
• Model Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance coauthored by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon
• STATEMENT BY CATHARINE A. MACKINNON AND ANDREA DWORKIN REGARDING CANADIAN CUSTOMS AND LEGAL APPROACHES TO PORNOGRAPHY

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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