Web Resources
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Ethics
Logic
The Euthyphro Problem
Abortion and Personhood
Thought Experiments
Method
Scientific Method
Socrates
Aristotle

Web Resources

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/)
A large collection of articles on various philosophical topics

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html)
A continually growing collection of articles on various philosophical topics

EpistemeLinks.com
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/)
Large site with links to philosophers, issues, and online texts

Google Web Directory: Philosophy
(http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Philosophy/)
Collections of links to many philosophers and philosophical topics

Philosophy Around the Web
(http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.html)
Set of links to philosophy sites maintained by Peter J. King (Oxford University)

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
(http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm)
Collection of briefly annotated alphabetized links to philosophers, topics, associations, journals, e-texts, etc.; maintained by Peter Suber (Earlham College)

Encarta
(http://encarta.msn.com/)
General online encyclopedia with many helpful short articles on philosophical issues

A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/)
Helpful dictionary for brief biographies of philosophers and definitions of key concepts; also includes links to timeline, study guide, etc.; maintained by Garth Kemerling

University of Adelaide E-books
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/)
Large listing of e-texts, including many philosophical classics

The Internet Public Library Book Search
(http://www.ipl.org/div/books/)
Collection of over 20,000 online titles, including many philosophical works

The U. Penn Online Books Page Book Search
(http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html)
Compilation of over 17,000 online titles, including many philosophical works

Great Books Index
(http://www.mirror.org/books/)
Good collection of links to central texts in philosophy and literature

MIT Classics Archive
(http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/)
Assortment of plain text English translations of Greek and Latin works, including the Jowett translation of many of Plato's dialogues

Philosophy Around the Web
(http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.html)
Links to philosophy resources on the internet maintained by Peter J. King..

Ethics Updates
(http://ethics.sandiego.edu/index.asp)
Searchable set of links to sites on ethical theory and applied ethics maintained by Lawrence Hinman, Director of the Values Institute at the University of San Diego.

Metaphysics

Metaphysics: Multiple Meanings
(http://websyte.com/alan/metamul.htm )
General overview of metaphysics including bibliography and Web links

Metaphysics Research Lab
(http://mally.stanford.edu/)
Laboratory devoted to investigating the relations among abstract objects (Stanford University)

Metaphysics
(http://www.rep.routledge.com/philosophy/cgi-bin/article.cgi?it=N095)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

Metaphysics links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Topics.aspx?TopiCode=Meta)
EpistemeLink link collection

Metaphysics
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/m7.htm#mephy)
Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

Epistemology

Epistemology
(http://www.rep.routledge.com/philosophy/cgi-bin/article.cgi?it=P059)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

The Epistemology Research Guide
(http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kak7409/EpistemologicalResearch.htm)
Compilation of links to courses, online papers, other epistemology sites, etc. by Keith Korcz (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Epistemology links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Topics.aspx?TopiCode=Epis)
Excellent source for general research including many Web links from EpistemeLinks.

Epistemological Connections
(http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/epistem/rbj001.htm)
Links related to Epistemology.

An Introduction to Epistemology
(http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/EPISTEMI.html)
General information and overview from Principia Cybernetica Web

Ethics

Moral Philosophy
(http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/jmoral.htm)
Full text of a work by Jacques Maritain

Moral Philosophy
(http://www.philosopher.org.uk/moral.htm)
Overview from philosopher.org

Ethics Updates
(http://ethics.acusd.edu/)
Extensive collection of ethical theory and applied ethics links; maintained by Lawrence Hinman (UCSD)

Applied Ethics Resources on WWW
(http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/)
Large assortment of applied ethics links from the Centre for Applied Ethics (University of British Columbia)

Ethical theory links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Topics.aspx?TopiCode=Ethi)
EpistemeLink link collection

Logic

Mission Critical
(http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html)
An on-line tutorial for analyzing and evaluating arguments

Identifying the Argument of the Essay
(http://commhum.mccneb.edu/argument/summary.htm)
A critical thinking tutorial on argument analysis

Argument Structure
(http://www.jps.at/philosophy/linked.html)
Examples and diagrams of various types of argument structures

Logic and Fallacies
(http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html)
An overview of the nature and purpose of logic

Informal Fallacies
(http://www.drury.edu/faculty/Ess/Logic/Informal/Overview.html)
Yet another online source of fallacy descriptions and examples

The Euthyphro Problem

The Euthyphro Question
(http://www.utexas.edu/courses/hilde/Philhandouts/Euthyphro(Corvino).html)
Outline notes on relation between morality and religion by John Corvino (University of Texas at Austin)

Instructor's Notes on Plato's Euthyphro
(http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/mattey/phi001/mattey/phi001/euthnote.htm)
Lecture notes by G. J. Mattey (UC Davis)

Notes for Lecture #9
(http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/051/lec9.html)
Lecture notes on Plato's Euthyphro by Alexander R. Pruss (Georgetown University)

On Moral Justification and the Euthyphro
(http://www.utexas.edu/courses/hilde/Philhandouts/Euthyphro(Myers).html)
Lecture notes by William T. Myers (Birmingham-Southern College)

Abortion and Personhood

Abortion
(http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761553899)
Encarta article

Abortionfacts.com
(http://www.abortionfacts.com/)
Collection of information about various aspects of abortion and articles supporting various positions

Abortion: All sides of the Issue
(http://www.religioustolerance.org/abortion.htm)
Detailed overview of the issue, current legal situation, and arguments on various sides from ReligiousTolerance.org

Abortion
(http://www.agi-usa.org/index.html)
Site that provides a collection of fact sheets and reports on abortion from the Guttmacher Institute; general information, although by pro-choice supporters

Abortion
(http://www.friesian.com/abortion.htm)
Detailed discussion of flaws in the key arguments used by both pro-life and pro-choice advocates; by Kelley Ross (Friesian School Proceedings), a pro-choice supporter

Abortion and Ethics
(http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Abortion/index.html)
Collection of web resources from Lawrence Hinman's Ethics Updates (University of San Diego)

On Combating Abortion and Euthanasia
(http://www.cin.org/jp2ency/aboreuth.html)
Letter of Pope John Paul II against abortion, May, 1991

National Right to Life
(http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/)
Home page of pro-life organization with information on medical and legislative issues

Abortion
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01046b.htm)
Catholic Encyclopedia article; detailed discussion of history of issue and Catholic Church's stance

Abortion
(http://bostonreview.net/BR20.3/thomson.html)
Article for the pro-choice position by Judith Jarvis Thompson for the Boston Review, 1995

NOW and Abortion Rights/Reproductive Issues
(http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/index.html)
Pro-choice resources from the National Organization for Women

The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL)
(http://www.naral.org/index.cfm)
Home page of organization emphasizing importance of freedom of choice; contains links to current news articles, legal cases, etc.

National Abortion Federation
(http://www.prochoice.org/)
Home page of pro-choice organization with fact sheets, discussion of legal issues, etc.

The Case of Theresa Schiavo
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18050)
Essay by Joan Didion on the Terry Schiavo case

Why Abortion is Biblical
(http://elroy.net/ehr/abortion.html)
Essay by Brian Elroy McKinley arguing for biblical support of abortion

Personhood and Death

Ethics and Personhood: Some Issues in Contemporary Neurological Science and Technology
(http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/Perry/personhood.html)
Article by David L. Perry

Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading
(http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/BD/Brain.html)
Article by James J. Hughes prepared for the Second International Symposium on Brain Death

Brain Death and Brain Injury Resources
(http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Brain.html)
End of life ethics links

Analytic Philosophy and Death: Brain Death and Personal Identity
(http://www.csu.edu.au/learning/eubios/EJ65/EJ65B.html)
Article by Maurizio Salvi

Definition of Death
(http://philosophy.wisc.edu/streiffer/HOM558S00Folder/000309Definition_of_Death.pdf)
Summary of arguments for different definitions of death by Robert Streiffer ( University of Wisconsin - Adobe File)

Biology, Consciousness, and the Definition of Death
(http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/winter98/biology_consciousness.htm)
Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

Thought Experiments

Thought Experiments
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

Thought Experiments
(http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi576.htm)
Article by John H. Lienhard (University of Houston)

Does Philosophy Offer Cognitive Science Distinctive Methods?
(http://www.carleton.ca/~abrook/methods.htm)
Article by Andrew Brook (Carleton University)

Thought Experiments and Counterexamples
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/general/vocab/analyses.html)
Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University)

Method

Socratic Method and Scientific Method
(http://www.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Dye/method.html)
A comparison of the Socratic and Scientific methods by James Dye (Northern Illinois University)

Confusion about the Socratic Method: Socratic Paradoxes and Contemporary Invocations of S...
(http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/1998/reich.html)
Article by Rob Reich (Stanford University), Philosophy of Education, 1998

The Socratic Method
(http://www.str.org/free/studies/socratic.htm)
Article by Ken Samples

What Socrates Taught
(http://www.san.beck.org/SOCRATES4-What.html)
Excellent overview of Socrates by Sanderson Beck.

Socrates
(http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm)
General information on Socratic philosophy and Web links, from the Philosophy Pages.

Scientific Method

Scientific Method
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method)
Wikipedia article

Introduction to the scientific method
(http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html)
Overview by Frank Wolfs (University of Rochester)

The Scientific Method
(http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node5.html)
Course Notes by Jose Wudka (U. C. Riverside)

Scientific method
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/s2.htm#scim)
Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

Socrates

The Last Days of Socrates
(http://socrates.clarke.edu/)
Very helpful site with explanatory hyperlinks, diagrams, marginal notes, and text of Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and death scene from the Phaedo; maintained by Kent Anderson and Norm Freund (Clarke College)

Socrates
(http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761573200/Socrates.html)
Encarta article

Socrates
(http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/14119a.htm)
Catholic Encyclopedia article

Greek philosophy
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/greekphi.htm)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article setting Socrates in context

Socrates: Philosophical Life
(http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2d.htm)
Synopses of Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito by Garth Kemerling

Instructor's notes: Apology
(http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/mattey/phi001/mattey/phi001/apolnote.htm)
Lecture notes by G. J. Mattey (U. C. Davis)

Commentary on Plato's Apology of Socrates
(http://www.friesian.com/apology.htm)
Extensive analysis of Plato's dialogue by Kelley Ross (Friesian School Proceedings)

Socrates on the immortality of the soul
(http://www.san.beck.org/SOCRATES4-What2.html#12)
Discussion by Sanderson Beck (World University)

Plato

Plato
(http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568769/Plato.html)
Encarta article

Plato: Life and Works
(http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/plat.htm)
Discussion of life and thought by Garth Kemerling

Plato's Republic
(http://www.friesian.com/plato.htm)
Discussion by Kelley L. Ross (Friesian School Proceedings)

Plato's Philosophy
(http://php.iupui.edu/~cplaneau/Plato%20and%20His%20World/Plato%20Frame%20Set%205.htm)
Discussion of Plato's Forms by Christopher Planeaux (Indiana University-Purdue University)

Platonic Forms
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/f5.htm#forms)
Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

Recollection
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/r.htm#recn)
Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

Plato links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Plat)
EpistemeLink link collection

Aristotle

Aristotle's Ethics
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

Aristotle
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

Greek Philosophy: Aristotle
(http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/ARIST.HTM)
Overview of some central ideas by Richard Hooker (Washington State University)

Aristotle
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01713a.htm)
Catholic Encyclopedia article

Aristotle links
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Aris)
EpistemeLink link collection

Aristotle: Life and Works
(http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/aris.htm)
Discussion of life and thought by Garth Kemerling

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
Article on the life and work of Bertrand Russell from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Bertrand Russell Archives
http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm
McMaster University collection of Russell's writings.

Bertrand Russell Society
http://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/brs.html
Society devoted to the study of Bertrand Russell.

Bertrand Russell Gallery
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/
Site celebrating the life of Bertrand Russell.

Brand Blanshard

Brand Blanshard
http://progressiveliving.org/brand_blanshard.htm
A brief biography of Brand Blanshard from the Progressive Living website.

Brand Blanshard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_Blanshard
Article on the life and work of Brand Blanshard from Wikipedia.

The Rational Temper
http://www.monadnock.net/essays/blanshard.html
Article on how Brand Blanshard's philosophy affected his personal life.

Review of Reason and Analysis
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/articles_essays/review_of_reason.html
Review of Blanshard's Reason and Analysis by Nathaniel Brandon.

Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick Dies at 63
(http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/01.17/99-nozick.html)
Obituary of Robert Nozick by Ken Gewertz (Harvard University Gazette)

Interview with Robert Nozick
(http://www.lfb.com/index.php?action=help&helpfile=nozickinterview.html)
Interview with Robert Nozick by Laissez Faire Books.

Robert Nozick Resource Page
(http://www.policylibrary.com/nozick/)
Links to works on Robert Nozick sponsored by the Policy Library

The Value of Reality: Cypher and the Experience Machine
(http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_experience.html)
Article on Nozick, the Matrix, and free will by Christopher Grau

Nozick's Libertarianism: A Qualified Defense
(http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/philn/philn032.pdf)
Article on Nozick's political philosophy by Adriana Lukasova (Adobe File)