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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder

Powerful Ideas

Web Links

ARGUMENT

Good and Bad Argument Forms
(http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jpryor/general/vocab/goodbad.html)

Description and examples of various kinds of arguments.
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)

DIALECTIC

The Book of St. Augustine on Dialectic
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/dialecticatrans.html)

EPISTEMOLOGY

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

Links related to Epistemology.
Epistemology Topic Page
(http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Topics.asp?TopicCode=Epis)

Excellent source for general research including many Web links from EpistemeLinks.
An Introduction to Epistemology
(http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/EPISTEMI.html)

General information and overview from Principia Cybernetica Web.
ETHICS

Applied Ethics Resources on WWW
(http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/)

FALLACY

Mission Critical
(http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html)

Critical thinking tutorial. Scroll down for the section on fallacies.
Fallacies
(http://www1.us.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/)

Another online guide to fallacies. This includes many types of fallacies with descriptions and examples.
Informal Fallacies
(http://www.drury.edu/faculty/Ess/Logic/Informal/Overview.html)

Yet another online source of fallacy descriptions and examples.
The Fallacy Zoo
(http://www.primenet.com/~byoder/fallazoo.htm)

A look at the use of fallacies within Internet discussion.
LOGIC

Introduction to Logic
(http://147.4.150.5/~matscw/RealWorld/logic/logicintro.html)

A Complete Text Resource on the World Wide Web by Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble.
Logic and Fallacies
(http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html)

From The Atheism Web.
METAPHYSICS

Metaphysics: Multiple Meanings
(http://websyte.com/alan/metamul.htm)

General overview of metaphysics including bibliography and Web links.
PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy, Introduction
(http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PHILOSI.html)

General overview of what philosophy is from Principia Cybernetica Web.
Philosophy in Cyberspace
(http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/index.htm)

Another source of philosophy resources on the Web broken down into sub-topics.
Philosophy Resources
(http://www.routledge.com/philosophy/rprcmain.html)

A Routledge Guide to Philosophy Resources on the Internet
Philosophy Pages
(http://www.philosophypages.com/index.htm)

Focuses on Web links to Western philosophy sites.
Philosophy @ <large>
(http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/whatis.html)

Yet more general philosophy resources on the Web, from the University of Liverpool.
Philosophy COMIX
(http://members.aol.com/lshauser/phlcomix.html)

Examples of philosophical topics from contemporary comic strips.
Philosophy Resources on the Internet
(http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/philosophy_sources.html)

From the University of Texas.
AESTHETICS

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

The British Journal of Aesthetics
(http://www3.oup.co.uk/aesthj/)

British Society of Aesthetics
(http://www.british-aesthetics.org/)

International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
(http://www.ume.maine.edu/~iaea/)

General info and links from Erratic Impact's Philosophy Resource.
(http://www.erraticimpact.com/~topics/html/aesthetics.htm Aesthetics)

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Recent Moral Philosophy
(http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/80130/part1/sect5/RMP.html)

Summary of recent works in the field of Moral Philosophy.
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.
RSCI Journal of Moral Philosophy
(http://www.realsci.com/infobox.cfm/Key/2000082413520)

SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

Social Philosophy and Policy Center (SPPC)
(http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/sppc/)

North American Society for Social Philosophy
(http://www.pitt.edu/~nassp/nassp.html)

What are Philosophy of law and social philosophy?
(http://www.uni-erfurt.de/rechtsphilosophie/englisch/info.html)

Overview.
Social Philosophy
(http://www.ed.ac.uk/~pmilne/journals_html/soc.html)

Links.
Journal of Social Philosophy
(http://www.blackwellpub.com/journals/JOSP/society.htm)

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Political Philosophy
(http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lauriej/)

General information and links.
The Political Philosophy Reading Room
(http://www.wmelchior.com/philosophie/readroom.htm)

Links.
Philosophy and Civil Society
(http://www.civsoc.com/index.htm)

Contemporary journal of political philosophy.
Islamic political philosophy: Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/arab-y67s11.html)

CLASSICAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
(http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/schallj/WS9BJVS.html)

Essay.
NORMATIVE QUESTIONS

Principles of Normative Ethics
(http://www.stedwards.edu/ursery/norm.htm)

General information.