Amazon.com has over 2.5 million titles to select from. You can search for books by author, title, subject, keyword, or ISBN. When you come across an interesting book just click on its title in order to find out more about it -- in most cases, you will find a brief description of the book along with its table of contents and some reviews. Amazon.com also locates and sells out-of-print books.

This excellent journal (edited by Peter Smith) publishes brief articles in analytic philosophy. Preprints and the contents of previous and forthcoming issues are available at this site. This is also the place to go in order to subscribe to the journal's e-supplement, ANALYST.

This is the homepage of the American Philosophical Association. "The 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."

At this site, you will find updated information on conferences and calls for papers, the homepages of APA members; the meeting schedule for all three divisional meetings, and much more. And if you are a member, you can logon to the APA Member Services area and view the latest issue of Jobs for Philosophers or lookup the email address of another member. If you are not a member and would like to become one, go here.

Argos is the first peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World-Wide Web. It covers the ancient and medieval worlds. The point of Argos is to limit searches of the internet to only those sites of scholarly interest. So whereas a search for "Plato" using a typical search engine like Alta Vista results in over 40,000 matches (many of which have nothing to do with Plato the philosopher), a search for "Plato" using Argos only results in a little over 600 matches all pertaining to Plato the philosopher.

You can learn more about LASE technology in general and Argos in particular here. This exciting new technology has now been put to use for the benefit of all philosophers (as opposed to only those studying ancient and medieval philosophy): Peter Suber has set up a peer-reviewed search engine for philosophy called Hippias. It is guided by the same principles and uses the same software as Argos.

"The Center for Bioethics Internet Project (www.bioethics.net) is the most-utilized, most advanced, bioethics resource on the Internet. Receiving as many as 600,000 visits per month from professionals, patients, students, and teachers around the world, the Center's Internet programs are creating a new way of thinking about communications and public education in bioethics. This user-friendly, award-winning website provides ready access to commentary about a variety of issues in bioethics, including important cutting edge topics as well as more familiar subjects in the field."

"The Philosophy Documentation Center welcomes you to Books in Philosophy, our online bookstore and reference service. Thousands of titles, including books, electronic texts on floppy disk or CD-ROM, videos, and audio cassettes from more than 130 publishers, are available here at discount prices. Free searches of the database will provide you with information on titles relating to your particular field of philosophical interest. You can search the database by author, title, format, publisher, publication date, and ISBN. We are also adding subject classifications for each title, brief descriptions or author abstracts, and biographical information on authors and famous philosophers."

The society has the following current functions: (1) runs conferences -- annual or more frequent; (2) encourages the electronic interchange of information: drafts of papers, reviews, etc.; (3) publishes a list of members and their research interests; and (4) publishes a list of British graduate students in Ethics.

"Traditional academic publishing is a slow conversation. A year to get your idea into final form, a year to get it accepted somewhere, a year for it to appear. Then a year for anyone to get a reply into final form, another year for them to get it accepted, another for it to appear. Life is too short."

BEARS is a small response. It publishes short reviews (under 1000 words) of recent journal articles in moral and political philosophy ("recent" articles being those that have appeared in the last six months). The editors solicit many of the reviews but also encourage unsolicited submissions which will be published at their discretion (See Notes for Contributors). Reviews will normally be published (worldwide!) within days of their receipt.

There are reviews of articles from such prestigious journals as Ethics and Philosophy and Public Affairs. The quality of the reviews has been excellent. Many are authored by some of today's most renown philosophers: Simon Blackburn, Frank Jackson, John Broome, and the like.

"This is a bibliography of recent work in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of artificial intelligence. It consists of 2395 entries, and is divided into 5 parts, each of which is further divided by topic and subtopic."

"Many of the entries are annotated with a brief summary. Most areas of mainstream contemporary philosophy of mind are covered, but very active tangential areas, such as belief semantics and action theory, have been largely ignored. The bibliography consists mostly of papers and books from the last 35 years, with density of coverage increasing with proximity to the present."

This page contains an extensive list of links to the syllabi and other course materials that philosophy instructors have posted on the Web.

"This dictionary is intended as a free resource to all those interested in the philosophy of mind. The Dictionary has a policy of blind peer review for all submissions to the Dictionary. As well, Advisory, Editorial and Review boards have been established. For more information on copyright, editorial policy, or submission guidelines, please see the Submission Information page."

"Established in August of 1993, The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy (ISSN 1071-5800) is the first online journal of philosophy. EJAP is available for free to an international audience via the world wide web. The editors understand analytic philosophy as characterized by a free use of formal methods, a close relationship with the natural and social sciences, and an incremental approach to problem solving. EJAP publishes annual issues on topics of special concern to analytic philosophers."

This is one of the best guides to philosophy-related resources on the internet. It is well organized and updated regularly.

"Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It's intended to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relate to ethics."

This is a fantastic resource for anyone teaching or studying ethics. There is a section for most major topics in moral philosophy: utilitarianism, egoism, relativism, abortion, euthanasia, world hunger, etc. Each section includes an annotated bibliography and links to relevant resources on the WWW: court decisions, encyclical letters, transcripts of congressional hearings, recent newspaper and magazine articles, etc.

In addition to these topical resources, there is a glossary of terms in ethics, a listing of forthcoming ethics conferences, and sample syllabi from numerous courses in ethics.

"The goal of this project is to produce an interactive learning environment that uses technology to enhance the study of Plato in ways previously unavailable."

These exercises consist of a series of interactive multiple choice questions on moral philosophy. There are thirty-five separate sets of exercises each with around thirty questions. Some of these sets concern a particular philosopher (ranging from Plato to Hare); others concern a particular moral view (e.g., emotivism). These exercises were designed primarily as a tutorial for students studying Gensler's books: Formal Ethics and Introduction to Ethics (both with Routledge). But they will likely be beneficial to anyone studying ethics at the introductory level.

J. Patrick Mohr has, with Gensler's help, set up similar page of exercises for his Introduction to Philosophy and Medical Ethics courses. See Mohr's Philosophy Exercises.

Much of the information regarding journals is out of date. But you will find some good advice on journal publishing and presenting papers. The 1997 Edition (available in print only) can be purchased from the Philosophy Documentation Center.

"The purpose of this guide is to help the philosopher and philosophy student with one of the bothersome tasks of research: finding philosophical and philosophy-related books in the library. It may also answer some questions for the curious library browser who has wondered at the arrangements on the library shelves."

This is one of the most comprehensive guides to philosophy-related resources on the internet. But unlike Philosophy in Cyberspace, this guide doesn't have a separate Web page for each section. Instead, it consists of one very large file (over 250k). This means it takes awhile to load. But there is a significant advantage to having the guide consist of only one page: you can use your browser's search command to search all sections at once. There is now a faster loading multi-file edition.

Hippias is a peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) of philosophy-related resources on the World-Wide Web. The point of Hippias is to limit searches of the internet to only those sites of scholarly interest. So whereas a search for "Plato" using a typical search engine like Alta Vista results in over 40,000 matches (many of which have nothing to do with Plato the philosopher), a search for "Plato" using Hippias results in less than 300 matches all pertaining to Plato the philosopher.

The way in which Hippias limits its searches is fairly straightforward. "Hippias searches a small set of associate sites and all the pages they link to, with the exception of a few pages that Hippias is told to avoid, such as personal homepages and the major search engines discussed above [Lycos, InfoSeek, Alta Vista, etc.]. The procedure, in turn, passes Hippias' editorial control over to the experts that manage the associate sites. By simply linking their index to a page, these editors are also instructing Hippias to include it in the search window."

"Although many philosophy papers and preprints are now available on the web, they are difficult to find and there is no easy way to know when new ones appear. The purpose of this directory is to make such information available, by providing a central location where authors can register their on-line papers easily. Others can check here to see what is available, without having to look through other people's websites themselves. This is primarily a page of links that point to papers available elsewhere and no papers are stored locally."

A majority of the 500+ papers are in the area of philosophy of mind. But there are a substantial number of papers in most major areas of philosophy. Some of the papers have already been published in print journals, and some are forthcoming, but most are unpublished original papers. Many of the papers are authored by today's leading philosophers: Daniel Dennett, Mark Johnston, Gilbert Harman, and the like.

"Articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy are currently 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 professional philosophers around the internet. Over time, the editor seeks to replace all of the first two types of articles with original contributions by professional philosophers (see submission guidelines)."

Jobs in Philosophy lists all kinds of job opportunities for philosophers, academic and nonacademic, short- term as well as tenured. However, non-employment sources of income such as grants, fellowships, and prizes are listed only if they are advertised each time they come up. For more information on such non- employment sources of income, I recommend seeing the APA's lists of both grants and fellowships and prizes and awards.

Jobs in Philosophy gathers information on job openings from numerous sources from around the world: the Chronicle for Higher Education, the Times Higher Education Supplement (It's free, but one must register first.), the Australasian Philosophy Network's Jobs Page, etc. They also learn about many job openings from individuals -- if you know of any job opening, PhilNet asks that you post it in their pages.

The APA, however, prohibits Jobs in Philosophy from posting any of its ads from the Jobs for Philosophers newsletter. And since many job openings are only advertised in Jobs for Philosophers, I would strongly advise that job candidates not limit their search to the job openings listed by Jobs in Philosophy. Thus, I recommend that job-seekers become a member of the APA and consult the Jobs for Philosophers newsletter.

Job seekers will undoubtedly be interested in the Special Report of the APA Committee on Career Opportunities and the APA's statistics on candidates per job advertised (1982-1997).

"Linking a searchable text file to the page images of the entire published record of a journal offers a level of access previously unimaginable. Authorized users are able to view and print articles using standard PC equipment at any time and from any networked location. Issues of journals are never "out"; they are always available, and in pristine condition. In sum, the addition of powerful search and printing capabilities makes the JSTOR system more than just a way for libraries to save capital costs; it has become a scholarly tool of enormous potential value."

With JSTOR, one can search the entire text of an article!

Currently, the philosophy journals that are available on JSTOR can only be accessed from a networked computer. To find out the closest networked computer near you, see JSTOR's list of participating institutions.

JSTOR holdings in philosophy as of July 1999 are the following: Journal of Philosophy (Vols. 1-90, 1904-1993); Journal of Symbolic Logic (Vols. 1-59, 1936-1994); Mind (Vols. 1-16, 1876-1891 -- New Series, Vols. 1-100, 1892-1991); Noûs (Vols. 1-27, 1967-1993); Philosophical Perspectives (Vols. 1-7, 1987-1993); Philosophical Quarterly (Vols. 1-43, 1950-1993); Philosophical Review (Vols. 1-104, 1892-1995); Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Vols. 1-53, 1940-1993); and Philosophy and Public Affairs (Vols. 1-22, 1971-1993). JSTOR also hopes to add Ethics (1890-1993) to its database sometime in the near future.

Here you will find the final typescript of chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 of Peter Unger's recent book Living High and Letting Die. Unfortunately two chapters (5 and 7) are missing, so I recommend purchasing the paperback edition for $14.95 from Amazon.com. All author's royalties from sales go, in equal measure, to Oxfam America and the U.S. Committee for UNICEF.

The following blurb is from the book's back cover:

"By sending a few hundred dollars to a group like UNICEF, any well-off person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. But even when knowing this, almost all of us send nothing and, among the contributors, most send precious little. What's the moral status of this behavior? To such common cases of letting die, our untutored response is that, while it's not very good, neither is the conduct wrong. How can we best explain this lenient intuitive assessment? In this hard-hitting new book, philosopher Peter Unger argues that, all too often, our moral intuitions about cases are generated not by the basic moral values we hold, but by psychological dispositions that prevent us from reacting in accord with our deep moral commitments. Through a detailed look at how these disorienting tendencies operate, Unger reveals that, on the good morality we already accept, our fatally unhelpful behavior is monstrously wrong."

The table of contents and abstracts from the journal Mind (1996-present) are freely available at this site. However, access to the full-text of articles is restricted to current subscribers -- subscribe today.

"Mission: Critical is an interactive tutorial for critical thinking, in which you will be introduced to basic concepts through sets of instructions and exercises. Formal instructional materials have been kept to a minimum, in order to take advantage of Mission: Critical's interactive format. Through immediate reinforcement for right and wrong answers to a series of increasingly complex exercises, you will begin to utilize the essential tools of intellectual analysis."

"Mission: Critical can be used with almost any critical thinking textbook, simply by following that text's order when choosing the independent subject modules from the Main Menu. Though there may be some variation in terminology and presentation, in most cases the similarities will far outweigh any differences. A list of critical thinking texts, with classroom-tested reviews, is available on the texts page (in the Re: Sources section)."

This is currently the best available critical thinking tutorial on the Web.

"In print, an index is a list of resources, but when an index is moved to the Internet and provides ready access to the resources it lists, it becomes a library. When these resources are carefully selected on the basis of their relevance to a particular topic and rendered searchable by a central mechanism, the result is a quality-controlled region of cyberspace that is, more or less, sealed off from the broader Internet and that can be tailored for a particular use."

This is the Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A. 10-15 August 1998. The site contains an archive of the contributed papers presented at the Twentieth World Congress.

Perseus is an evolving digital library of ancient Greek culture. Perseus contains: (1) ancient Greek texts both in their original Greek and in translation; (2) a Greek lexicon which will both define a given word and cite numerous examples of its use in ancient texts; (3) a detailed catalogue of numerous ancient Greek artifacts; and (4) an atlas with color maps of Greece, annotated with place names.

"Users will benefit from the diverse materials in the Perseus digital library, which have not been integrated in traditional scholarship. For example, the user can read Euripides' Bacchae and examine the depictions of satyrs and maenads in art, or investigate the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides with maps and photographs of the places they mention. It is enlightening to read a Greek text when it is accompanied not only by an English translation (as in some editions), but by a lexicon and a morphological database that can parse any Greek word in Perseus."

"The Philosophers' Web Magazine is your gateway to the best in classic and contemporary philosophy. With news, reviews, features, interviews, new philosophy and over 200 philosophy links, it is our aim to be the most accessible and entertaining forum for general philosophy on the net. To this end, we showcase top-rate philosophy, with articles that are thought provoking in themselves and which also suggest further avenues to explore. We also want to provide the kind of information about philosophy that you won't find in philosophy journals and introductions. Check out our news, features and regulars sections and you'll see what we mean."

A calendar of upcoming conferences, seminars, and meetings.

The report is primarily a ranking of U.S. graduate programs in analytic philosophy, but it also contains some useful information on graduate programs strong in continental philosophy. This is by far the most accurate and useful ranking out there -- it even takes account of likely faculty moves. And for anyone interested in pursuing a graduate degree in philosophy, it is an invaluable tool for deciding which programs to apply to. Also included is some useful information about applying to graduate schools. (The 1996-97 Edition is located here). If interested in Continental philosophy, see Leiter's Continental Philosophy Gourmet Report, 1998-2000.

"This report ranks graduate programs primarily on the basis of the quality of the tenured faculty in analytic philosophy, though some weight is given to the following factors as well: (i) age of faculty (since very good but very old faculty do not make for an attractive program from the standpoint of prospective students); (ii) breadth of faculty; and (iii) quality of junior faculty. I no longer assign very much weight to prior reputation of the program, although this can still affect job prospects somewhat. I have generally tried to evaluate "excellence" of the faculty without regard to areas of specialty (e.g. ethics versus philosophy of mind)."

Brian Leiter also does A Ranking of U.S. Law Schools by Educational Quality, 1998-99.

Please be advised that the APA does not approve of such rankings -- see The APA Statement on Rankings of Departments and Programs.

"The Philosophy Documentation Center is a non-profit organization that has been serving the philosophical community since 1966. Located at Bowling Green State University, the Philosophy Documentation Center has earned a reputation for excellence with the production and worldwide distribution of a variety of high-quality publications, including philosophical directories, bibliographies, scholarly journals, and instructional software for philosophers."

"The Center's wide range of professional services includes subscription fulfillment, typesetting, customized mailing lists, marketing and advertising, and conference exhibits. The Center is currently working in cooperation with publishers, database producers, software developers, and librarians to create an electronic clearinghouse for philosophical publishing. Our goal is to provide philosophers with electronic access to the widest possible range of philosophical literature."

This is my favorite of all the guides to philosophy-related resources on the internet. The guide is divided into five manageable sections. A print version of the guide is published by the PDC.

This is also probably the best maintained of all the guides to philosophy on the internet. It is regularly updated, and the links (all 1900+) are checked monthly to ensure accuracy. Unlike most other guides, this one is richly annotated.

This site aims to be complete. Here you will find links to both print and electronic journals. The following are some of my favorites: American Philosophical Quarterly (contents), Analysis (contents), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (contents), Bioethics (contents), Canadian Journal of Philosophy (contents), Ethics (contents), European Journal of Philosophy (contents), Journal of Philosophy (contents from JSTOR), The Journal of Value Inquiry (contents), Mind (contents), Noûs (contents), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (contents), Philosophical Quarterly (contents), Philosophical Review (contents), Philosophical Studies (contents), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (contents from JSTOR), Philosophy and Public Affairs (contents from Ethics Updates), Ratio (contents), The Southern Journal of Philosophy (contents of Spindel Supplements), and Utilitas (contents).

"The latest philosophy news and announcements from around the world."

"POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials is an essential reference and publishing service that offers searchable online access to a single database containing the fulltext of current, recent, and back issues of a growing number of philosophy journals. Every word in every journal issue in the database is fully searchable, including all articles, book reviews, footnotes, announcements, and notices."

"A POIESIS subscription allows users to search the entire database for any word or combination of words, and to view up to a paragraph of text around each "hit." Search results are presented on a results map, allowing users to see the article title, the journal name and issue, and all of the "hits" with a limited display of text. Abstracts, if available, are also viewable. This functionality is provided for all issues of all journals in the database. Currently, annual subscriptions to POIESIS are only available to institutions, but a free demonstration of the functionality of POIESIS is available to everyone."

Powell's Books sells new, used, and out of print books.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the first "dynamic" encyclopedia. Each entry is maintained by an expert or group of experts. And, unlike other internet encyclopedias, the authors of this encyclopedia have direct access to their entries and can upload changes as they see fit. Thus, the entries are continually improved and updated in light of new research. (For a more thorough description of what a "dynamic encyclopedia" is meant to be, see "A Solution to the Problem of Updating Encyclopedias" by Eric M. Hammer and Edward N. Zalta, which appeared in Computers and the Humanities 31/1 (1997): pp. 47-60.)

"The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is intended to serve as an authoritative reference work suitable for use by professionals and students in the field of philosophy." The entries are refereed by a select Editorial Board who are responsible for continually evaluating the entries along with whatever modifications made to them over time.

It is just in the beginning stages but very impressive so far. I predict that it will soon make all print versions of philosophy encyclopedias obsolete.

More than just a syllabus and some scant lecture outlines, this site contains extensive lecture notes from his ethics course.

This guide is designed for undergraduate students with little or no experience in writing philosophy papers. The guide is longer than most other internet guides but still short enough to expect students to read it. Thus, it is meant to be a happy medium between the typical short handout and the various books available on writing philosophy. The former isn't thorough enough, and the latter is much too lengthy to require students to read.

The guide covers fifteen separate topics: (1) The Purpose of the Assignment; (2) Adopting a Position; (3) Developing a Thesis; (4) Arguing for Your Position; (5) Arguing Against a Claim; (6) Criticizing an Argument; (7) Writing Clearly; (8) Defining Your Terms; (9) Excluding the Irrelevant; (10) The Introduction; (11) Your Audience; (12) Quoting; (13) Plagiarism; (14) Style and Layout; and (15) Getting Help. Also included is a bibliography of books on writing philosophy and links to other guides on the internet.

"UMI publishes and archives dissertations and theses; sells copies on demand; and maintains the definitive bibliographic record for over 1.4 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses."

Here you will find information on how to prepare, find, and order dissertations and theses. One of their most useful services is the Dissertation Express service. It "gives customers worldwide the option of buying unbound, shrink-wrapped copies of dissertations and theses from UMI's holdings of over 1,000,000 titles (primarily from the U.S. and Canada), at prices below those for bound copies. Orders must be prepaid; delivery is ordinarily made within 3-5 days (U.S. and Canada) or 5-7 days (elsewhere)."

UnCover is an online article delivery service. Their searchable database contains over seven million articles from nearly 17,000 English language periodicals (including most philosophy journals) with thousands of new articles being added daily. Using a simple online ordering system and your credit card, you can have an article fax to you within 24 hours (and often in less than an hour) for US $10.00 plus copyright fees.

UnCover also provides an automated alerting service called Reveal (cost: $25 per year for individuals). The Reveal service delivers the table of contents of your favorite periodicals to you via email. Also, the Reveal service allows users to create search strategies for their favorite topics. These search strategies are then run against the entire UnCover database and weekly alerts on the latest articles published on these topics are then delivered to the user via e-mail.

"This page collects everything [Peter Suber] can find about journals, conferences, and essay contests for undergraduate philosophy students."