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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- jbarrow 12y agoI used the SEP when reading about Epistemology, and I must say that it is both a comprehensive and comprehensible resource. Although it was (for me, at least) a bit dense at times, it was perhaps the best introduction to the subject that I found. If anyone is interested in some philosophical concept, I would recommend starting here, and branching out to books and linked papers only after using the SEP. And if anyone has any other good resources they would like to point me towards, I would greatly appreciate it.
- adventured 12y agoI also found it to be incredibly fair in treatment to what is ultimately an extremely varied and vast base of ideas, philosophies and philosophers. A difficult balancing act indeed.
- timtadh 12y agoSEP is one of the best sites on the net for learning philosophy. The biogrhphies of the personalities are comprehensive and I find the articles to provide nuance other resources sometimes lack. It is a great site for some casual reading on the subject.
- sebastianconcpt 12y agoFantastic resource. Thanks for the heads up
- stupandaus 12y agoAnyone have recommendations for interesting entries?
- thisjepisje 12y agoFrom my history: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cellular-automata/supplement.html http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cellular-automata/suppleme... http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathphil-indis/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathphil-indis/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/
- anateus 12y agoTry this one: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/
- Jun8 12y agoThe one on Language of Thought is good: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/. This is an extremely interesting subject: Does our thought process follow linguistic patterns? Do we use our native language to think or is there a deeper, universal "language" we think in? If the latter, how can that be? Etc.
- shliachtx 12y agoI found it by searching for Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/]
- aet 12y agohttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/
- dinglefuk 12y agohttp://www.iep.utm.edu/math-app/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/math-app/
- atmosx 12y ago"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." - A. N. Whitehead (co-author of Principia Mathematica along with B. Russel)
- dome82 12y agoEpictetus: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epictetus/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epictetus/ Marcus Aurelius: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcus-aurelius/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcus-aurelius/ Stoicism: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/ Seneca: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/
- jonhmchan 12y agoSEP is easily the best online resource for philosophy, especially in the analytic tradition. It can be a bit dense sometimes, but I've always used it as an introduction or overview of a philosophy text before diving in during college.
- samolang 12y agoPrevious discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fplato.stanford.edu%2F#!/story/forever/0/http%3A%2F%2Fplato.stanford.edu%2F https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fplato.stanford.edu%2F...
- Xcelerate 12y agoThis is cool! But there's a lot in there, so I don't even know where to start. Does anyone know of a good introduction to philosophy? My work is in the hard sciences, and I know next to nothing about philosophy, but am very interested in learning. Something that kind of gives an overview of the whole field I think would be best.
- Osmium 12y agoThis might be somewhat controversial, but Bertrand Russell has a good introduction to Western philosophy. For something a little lighter, AC Grayling is good.
- leephillips 12y agoSimply read Plato's dialogues. Everything after that is just a footnote.
- parenthesis 12y agoThe aforementioned A.C Grayling edited the fantastic: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198752431/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198752431/
- thanatropism 12y agoThis will be _super_ controversial, but I read Deleuze's "What is philosophy?" after reading a lot of philosohpy (and a lot of Deleuze), and it really makes sense of things. That, of course, will cover next to nothing in the post-Wittgensteinian analytical camp. But eh, you could do worse if you have one book to read.
- dasmithii 12y agoWow, I've been looking for something of this caliber for a long while. Thanks for sharing.
- jessriedel 12y agoIt's possible to find a few weak articles on the SEP, but by and large the quality is very high even with lots and lots of topics. If you want to learn about an unfamiliar philosophical concept, briefly scan the Wikipedia page and then head to the SEP.
- thanatropism 12y agoAlso: http://www.iep.utm.edu/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/ > The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002) was founded in 1995 as a non-profit organization to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, volunteers, and technical advisers. At present the IEP is visited over 950,000 times per month. The Encyclopedia is free of charge and available to all users of the Internet world-wide. The staff of 30 editors and approximately 300 authors hold doctorate degrees and are professors at colleges and universities around the world, most notably from English-speaking countries. The SEP is unusually in-depth about certain subjects, though. (Right now, I have "Dutch book arguments" and "Dialetheism" open).
- josu 12y ago"Error establishing a database connection"
- ethnt 12y agoMy philosophy of science teacher turned me onto this site last semester and it was really quite invaluable. The amount of thought and work that is put into each article is amazing, and it certainly helped me understand topics I would not have otherwise.
- gojomo 12y agoAn interesting aspect of this project is how it's funded. Per a presentation I saw a while back, when the site sees visits from Universities that have an associated degree-granting program, or visits from traditional related libraries, it nags the users that their institution should join (if it hasn't already). It's a bit like Shareware/Nagware/Guiltware, applied to a live service, and only targeted at specific related learning institutions with existing acquisition budgets. Here's the schedule of suggested dues: http://plato.stanford.edu/support/SEPIA-dues-schedule.html http://plato.stanford.edu/support/SEPIA-dues-schedule.html ..and benefits once joined... http://plato.stanford.edu/support/sepia.html http://plato.stanford.edu/support/sepia.html
- walterbell 12y agoGood transparency on their business model, http://plato.stanford.edu/support/problems.html http://plato.stanford.edu/support/problems.html "a subscription-based funding model would lead the SEP project towards a situation where it loses it focus and character as a project developed, administered and maintained by academics. Not only would the SEP reach a tiny fraction of the audience it once reached, but it might be forced to scramble each year to make ends meet, distracting its central staff from the academic mission of enhancing the encyclopedia's content and technological underpinnings. By contrast, if its basic operations and growth were covered by an endowment, the SEP staff could focus their fund-raising efforts on innovative grant proposals (taking advantage of their location at the Center for the Study of Language and Information) to push the technological limits of humanities computing"
- Confusion 12y agoI'm subscribed to their RSS feed[1], which is a wonderful way to be regularly introduced to new interesting articles and subjects whenever one is updated. Alas, it results in a large backlog... [1] http://plato.stanford.edu/rss/sep.xml http://plato.stanford.edu/rss/sep.xml
- lmarinho 12y agoThanks for bringing this back to the surface. I see that SEPs design has greatly improved since I last visited it. The new looks make for a much more pleasant reading experience, right on par with the excellent content.