| Principal Editor Edward N. Zalta (CSLI, Stanford University) |
| Associate Editor Colin Allen (Philosophy/Texas A&M University) |
| Assistant Editor Uri Nodelman (Computer Science/Stanford University) |
| Editorial Board Subject Editors |
| Advisory Board Department of Philosophy Stanford University |
| Occasional Referees |
| List of Authors |
Basic Information
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference work and is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University. The concept of a dynamic reference work was implemented in the design of the Encyclopedia by Edward N. Zalta (Director of the Metaphysics Research Lab). The project began when John Perry was the Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information. All correspondence should be directed to:
Information about our dynamic reference work can be found in the following papers and abstracts:
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Acknowledgements:
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy project is indebted to various people, both at Stanford and elsewhere, all of whom deserve acknowledgement. Although the Associate Editor (Colin Allen) and the Assistant Editor (Uri Nodelman) have been the Principal and Associate Perl Programmers, respectively, on this project since 1998, Eric Hammer (Peoplesoft Corporation) programmed on the project from 1995 to 1997. During the 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 academic years, David James Anderson wrote important Perl programs and has made other contributions to the project. We'd also like to thank David Barker-Plummer, Mark Greaves, Emma Pease, and Susanne Riehemann for their many helpful suggestions concerning the Encyclopedia project and the construction of this Web site.The Principal Editor would also like to acknowledge the contributions of: Javier Ergueta, for his efforts and work in developing a business plan for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy during the first six months of 2002, and Nathan Tawil, who helped design the Encyclopedia entry format when the project started in 1995. Finally, the South Korean company C.O.Tech, Inc., deserves acknowledgement for their expert advice concerning XML and for working on a Java-based, graphical XML/XHTML-editing program for our consideration and possible use by the authors of the Encyclopedia.
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