Philosophy Internet Resources

Tom Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services, is the librarian liaison to the Philosophy Department.

Organizations & Associations

• 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.

Indexes & General Resources

• Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names, part of a larger site on philosophy by Gary Kemerling who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, provides clear and concise definitions for 1,000 terms and names undergraduates are likely to encounter when studying philosophy.
• EpistemeLinks, maintained by Thomas Ryan Stone, a computer courseware developer and programmer, includes more than 19,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet.
• Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base, designed and maintained by Danne Polk, Villanova, is a meta-index of Internet philosophy reources that links to large philosophy sites and to specific subject subsections in those sites.
• Ethics Update edited by Lawrence M. Hinman, University of San Diego, is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students, provides updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, includes articles from three sources (1) adaptations from public domain sources, (2) adaptations of material written by the editor for classroom purposes, and (3) original contributions by specialized philosophers around the internet.
• Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy, maintained by Paul Vincent Shade at Indiana University, is intended for anyone interested in mediaeval logic and philosophy broadly construed.
• PHILWEB: philosophy resources off- and on-line: a massive pathfinder, compiled by Professor of Literature at the University of the West Indies, to print and electronic information in philosophy with sections devoted to 15 branches of philosophy, 21 philosophical methodologies, 4 historical eras, 22 regions, and hundreds of philosophers and other thearists.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Stanford University, the encyclopedia offers entries on the contributions of philosophers throughout history.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy, maintained by Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is an excellent index of web-based philosophical resources.

Electronic journals

• JSTOR (available to those affliated with OWU) provides complete backfiles to core philosophy journals:.
• Religion and Philosophy Collection includes 300 full text journals covering such topics as epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy electronic journals provides sources to philosophy electronic journals and links to more than thirty specific titles.

This resource guide prepared by Tom Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services, using excerpts from CHOICE reviews, Philosophy Internet resources listed on The Chronicle of Higher Education site, and "Philosophy: Scholarly Research Abounds" by Kelly M. Broughton in College & Research Libraries News vol. 61, no. 4 (April 2000) p. 284-7.