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(Bynagle's "Best Of Breed" Picks)

1. Specific types of sites or information
2. Major areas of Philosophy

I. Specific Types of Sites or Information

Best Search Engine for Philosophy:

Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet http://hippias.evansville.edu/

Best General Directory to Online Philosophy:

Episteme Links http://www.epistemelinks.com/index.asp

Honorable Mentions:

Philosophy in Cyberspace (Dey Alexander) http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/

Erratic Impact: Philosophy Research Base http://www.erraticimpact.com/

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Peter Suber) http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/gpi/index.htm

Best Directory of Online Philosophical Dictionaries& Encyclopedias:

SWIF Sito Web Italiano per Filosofia: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/dionari/dizengl.htm

Honorable Mention:

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Suber): Philosophy Dictionaries and Glossaries http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/gpi/dicts.htm

Best Online General Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

(A) "MOST PROMISING":

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/

(B) PRESENT REALITY:

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/

Best Directories of Electronic Philosophy Texts ("E-Texts):

[online books, book-length texts, or book excerpts]:

1. LISTED BY AUTHOR (texts housed at various sites):

Erratic Impact / Philosophy Research Base: Names Index  http://www.erraticimpact.com/names_index.htm

[e-text links intermingled with other links]

Honorable Mentions:

Episteme Links: Electronic Texts http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainText.asp

Georgetown University Philosophy Department's Links to Online Texts http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/philosophy/onlinetext.html

   B.    SITE DIRECTORIES (links to collections of texts, other directory sites, etc.):

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Suber): Philosophy Etexts http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/gpi/etexts.htm

Best Directories of Electronic Journals in Philosophy:

Episteme Links: Electronic Journals  http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainJour.asp

Philosophy at Large (Univ. of Liverpool): Ejournals http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/ejournals.html

Best Philosophy News Source:

Philosophy News Service www.philosophynews.com/

Honorable mention (or maybe a tie?):

TPM (The Philosopher's Magazine) Online  www.philosophers.co.uk/index.htm

Best Directory of Online Articles & Papers:

International Directory of On-Line Philosophy Papers (ed. Joe Lau, Univ. of Hong Kong) http://hkusuc.hku.hk/philodep/directory/

Best Directory for Teaching Tools & Resources (Syllabi, Handouts, Assignments, etc.)

Course Materials in Philosophy (Andrew Carpenter, Antioch College) http://antioch-college.edu/~andrewc/pedagogy.html

[most comprehensive]

Honorable Mention:

Episteme Links: Classroom Resources  http://www.epistemelinks.com/Clas/LectClas.htm

[more selective: "robust" and "content-rich" course materials]

Most Complete Directory of Philosophy Department Home Pages:

Virtually identical (as of 1/5/00):

Episteme Links: University and College Departments http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainDept.asp

Erratic Impact / Philosophy Research Base: Philosophy Dep'ts Index http://www.erraticimpact.com/~schools/philosophy_departments_index.htm

Honorable mention:

Philosophy in Cyberspace: Section 3, Philosophy Organizations http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/section3.htm

Best Directory of Philosophical Organization Web Sites:

Episteme Links: Organizations  http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainOrgs.asp

Honorable Mentions:

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet: Philosophical Associations and Societies http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/gpi/ass.htm

Philosophy in Cyberspace: Section 3, Organisations & Associations / Projects & Centres http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/section3.htm

Best Sites on Women Philosophers:

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

NOEMA: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy http://billyboy.ius.indiana.edu/womeninphilosophy/womeninphilo.html

DIRECTORY AND MORE:

Erratic Impact / Philosophical Research Base: Feminism / Women in Philosophy http://www.erraticimpact.com/~feminism/site_index.htm

Best Directory of Philosophical Humor Sites:

Philosophical Humor (ed. David Chalmers) http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/phil-humor.html

II. Major Areas of Philosophy

 Best Site for Aesthetics:

Aesthetics On-Line (American Society for Aesthetics) http://www.aesthetics-online.org/

[Directory and more]

Best Sites for Ethics:

GENERAL:

Ethics Updates http://ethics.acusd.edu/index.html

[directory & bibliography, plus some content material]

APPLIED & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: Directory

 Applied Ethics Resources on the WWW (Centre for Applied Ethics, Univ. of British Columbia) http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/

 BIOETHICS:

Directory Plus Content:

Bioethics.Net  (Center for Bioethics, Univ. of Pennsylvania) http://www.med.upenn.edu/~bioethic/

 Bibliography:

BIOETHICSLINE via Internet Grateful Med (Nat'l Libr. of Medicine) http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/doler?account=++&password=++&datafile=bioethicsline

[OR go to http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/ and select BIOETHICSLINE]

Best Sites for Philosophy of Mind:

DIRECTORY:

Philosophy of Mind (ed. Luca Malatesti, Univ. of Genoa) http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/mind/index.htm

Honorable Mention:

Duke Univ. Dep't of Philosophy: Philosophy Websites: Philos. of Mind http://www.duke.edu/philosophy/mind.html

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography (David Chalmers, Univ. of Arizona) http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/biblio.html

 DICTIONARY:

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind (ed. Chris Eliasmith) http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/index.html

Best Site for Philosophy of Mind:

Honorable Mention:

Philosophy of Religion (Scott Moore, Baylor University) http://www.baylor.edu/~Scott_Moore/Phi_Rel_info.html#POP

Best Site for Philosophy of Science:

Honorable Mention:

Philosophy of Science Resources (Bruce Janz, Augustana College) http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~janzb/science.htm

Best Directory for Political Philosophy:

SWIF: Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia: Political Philosophy (ed. Maria Chiara Peivatolo) http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/filpol/filpole/homefpe.htm

Best Sites for Ancient Philosophy:

DIRECTORY:

Philosophy in Cyberspace: Ancient Philosophy and Classical Thought http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/ancient.htm

Honorable Mention:

Episteme Links: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Classics http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainTopi.asp

ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND MORE:

Perseus Project: Greek Texts http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/chunk_TOC.grk.html

[for Plato and Aristotle, both Greek & English]

Honorable Mention:

Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/

Best Directory for Medieval Philosophy:

Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy (Paul Vincent Spade): Links . . . http://pvspade.com/Logic/noframes/otherweb.html

 Honorable Mention:

Episteme Links: Medieval Philosophy http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainTopi.asp

Best Sites for Modern Philosophy (17^th-19^th centuries):

DIRECTORY:

Erratic Impact / Philosophy Research Base: Modern Philosophy http://www.erraticimpact.com/~modern/site_index.htm#names

AND

Erratic Impact / Philosophy Research Base: 19^th Century http://www.erraticimpact.com/~19thcentury/site_index.htm

 ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND MORE:

Readings in Modern Philosophy (ed. Carl Michelson, Univ. of Idaho) http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/readings.htm

Best Sites for Continental Philosophy:

The Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Scott Moore, Baylor University) http://www.baylor.edu/~Scott_Moore/Continental.html

Honorable Mention:

Erratic Impact / Philosophy Research Base: 19^th Century / 20^th Century http://www.erraticimpact.com/

[select relevant names, movements, etc.; don't overlook "More Topics" lists]

Best Sites for Feminist Philosophy:

DIRECTORY AND MORE:

Erratic Impact / Philosophical Research Base: Feminism / Women in Philosophy http://www.erraticimpact.com/~feminism/site_index.htm

Honorable Mention (Directory):

Women's Studies Resources: Feminist Theory (Karla Tonella, Univ. of Iowa Libraries) http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/theory.html

Best Directory for Eastern Philosophy:

Episteme Links: Eastern Philosophy and Religion http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainTopi.asp

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