LinksContents Getting Started Getting Started What is philosophy? Two perspectives from the Dartmouth Philosophy Department. Philosophy Talk and The Guerrilla Radio Show are talk shows devoted to philosophical issues. Both sites feature archive pages where you can listen to past shows online. Does God exist? A debate between philosophers William Lane Craig and Douglas Jesseph. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy In-depth articles on contemporary philosophical issues. Gems of the Web EpistemeLinks.com’s list of the best philosophy sites. AskPhilosophers “You ask. Philosophers answer.” Philosophy Links Page EpistemeLinks.com “includes over 19,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet and has several additional features... is updated often”. Yahoo! Philosophy Categories include philosophy’s many subfields. The Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy is maintained by Scott Moore at Baylor University. Help for Students Searching Online Internet Philosopher is “a free 'teach yourself' tutorial on Internet information skills for philosophy.” Google Scholar and PhilPapers are useful for searching the philosophical literature. Scholarly Articles: How to Identify Them is from the Davidson College Library. Writing a Philosophy Paper Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper is from James Pryor at NYU. Paper-Writing Strategies for Introductory Philosophy Courses is from Joe Cruz at Williams College. A Guide to Philosophical Writing (pdf) and A Brief Guide to Writing the Philosophy Paper (pdf) are from the Harvard Writing Center. Graduate Study Philosophy and Your Future and A Realistic Perspective on Graduate Study are essays for students considering graduate study in philosophy. The Philosophical Gourmet Report is a ranking of philosophy graduate programs in the English-speaking world; it includes links to department homepages. A ranking such as this should be used only in conjunction with the advice of your professors. To read more about the Gourmet Report and the debate it has inspired, start at Keith DeRose's page For and Against the Use of Rankings. Brian Leiter's blog often features discussion and debate on issues related to graduate study. Searching for "graduate" on the blog will give you these results. Diversions Philosophical Humor A list compiled by David Chalmers. Games and Interactive Activities from The Philosophers’ Magazine. If you find this site’s “Philosophical Health Check” revealing, you may also want to try the Implicit Association Test. No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed is “America's premier philosophy television program. NDOPA is a live call-in show which brings together academics, activists and lay thinkers to discuss the pressing issues raised by the human condition. ” Diversions from Arts and Letters Daily. Essays Arts and Letters Daily collects the best reading on the web. You might start in the Classics section. Butterflies and Wheels was established to oppose, among other things, “pseudoscience that is ideologically and politically motivated.” Philosophy Blogs The Garden of Forking Paths is “dedicated to Agency Theory, including related issues in metaphysics, ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action, and just about any academic field that cares about who we are, what we do, and how we fit into the world around us.” Certain Doubts is on epistemology. PEA Soup is “dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and academia.” The Prosblogion discusses topics in the philosophy of religion. The Philosophers' Carnival Project “aims to showcase the best philosophical posts from a wide range of weblogs. We invite submissions from bloggers and readers, and collate the submitted posts into one big round-up (or “carnival”) every two weeks, offering a brief summary of each entry, and a link to the complete post.” Philosophical Associations National and International American Philosophical Association “is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline.” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics "is committed to encouraging high quality interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the theoretical and practical impacts of their subjects." Philosophy of Science Association “promotes research, teaching, and free discussion of issues in the philosophy of science from diverse standpoints. To this end, the PSA engages in activities such as: the publishing of periodicals, essays and monographs; sponsoring conventions and meetings; and awarding prizes for distinguished work in the field.” Society for Ethics “serves the purpose of promoting philosophical research in ethics, broadly construed, including areas such as (but not limited to) ethical theory, moral, social and political philosophy, as well as areas of applied ethics such as (but not limited to) legal, business and medical ethics.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy is “a professional organization devoted to supporting philosophy inspired by Continental European traditions. SPEP is also actively committed to philosophical pluralism. It is one of the largest American philosophical societies and accommodates such traditions as critical theory, existentialism, feminism, German Idealism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and phenomenology.” Society for Philosophy and Psychology “is the premier scientific and educational organization for philosophically interested psychologists and psychologically interested philosophers in North America. The purpose of the SPP is to promote interaction between philosophers, psychologists and other cognitive scientists on issues of common concern.” Society of Christian Philosophers “was organized in 1978 to promote fellowship among Christian Philosophers and to stimulate study and discussion of issues which arise from their Christian and philosophical commitments. One of its chief aims is to go beyond the usual philosophy of religion sessions at the American Philosophical Association and to stimulate thinking about the nature and role of Christian commitment in philosophy.” Society for Women in Philosophy “was started in 1972 to promote and support women in philosophy. SWIP holds divisional meetings, meetings in conjunction with the meetings of the American Philosophical Association, and it publishes newsletters.” Regional North Carolina Philosophical Society South Carolina Society for Philosophy Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology “promote[s] philosophy and psychology in the southern section of the United States by facilitating the exchange of ideas among those engaged in these fields of inquiry, by encouraging investigation, by fostering the educational function of philosophy and psychology, and by improving the academic status of the subjects.” Tennessee Philosophical Association Philosophy in North Carolina Queens University of Charlotte St. Andrews Presbyterian College
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