Philosophy

Life and work of the 18th century German philosopher; by Michael Forster.

Approaches to geometry that do not presuppose an infinity of points; by Jean-Paul van Bendegem.

By Robin Le Poidevin.

Justifications of legal punishment; by Antony Duff.

The result of a process of reflection on an area of (moral) inquiry, a notion figuring prominently in Rawls' Theory of Justice; by Norman Daniels.

Department of Philosophy - Cork, Ireland - BA (single and joint degrees), MA, MPhil, and PhD.

Department of Philosophy - Ottawa, Ontario - BA, MA

Department of Philosophy - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - BA, MA, MS (Logic and Computation), PhD (Logic, Computation, and Methodology)

Department of Philosophy - Davis, California - BA, PhD

Department of Philosophy - Minneapolis, Minnesota - BA, MA, PhD

Department of Philosophy - Birmingham, Alabama - BA

Philosophy Department - Lincoln, Nebraska - BA, MA, PhD

Department of Philosophy - Stanford, California - BA, MA, PhD

Department of Philosophy - New Orleans, Louisiana - BA, MA, PhD

Department of Philosophy - Bronx, New York - BA, MA, PhD

Text, draft translation and extensive commentary on this passage from the key work of Mohism, which is attributed to the dialecticians of the Later Mohist school. By Patrick Edwin Moran.

Case commentary on a controversial topic. Should newly dead bodies be used to teach medical practitioners skills that can be used to save others?

Broad overview of historical and current moral issues in the fields of medical treatment and research, from the U. of Penn. Includes news, headlines, articles, upcoming events.

Provides a framework for ethical decision making and cases that raise typical ethical dilemmas confronted by young people. At Santa Clara University

Assists the law profession and establishes practical rules, regulations, and guidelines that will protect the public and lawyers. Offers cases, codes, opinions, articles, links, and other reference material.

Short paper discussing the notion of 'just war' in historic context and with reference to current affairs (2002).

An essay arguing that to kill noncombatants in a terrorist attack or during a "collaterally violent" response to such an attack is morally equivalent, that both are morally wrong, and neither are acts of war, but murder.

An explanation of what utilitarianism is, its strong relationship to altruism, and a place to network to put the philosophy of utilitarianism into practice and thereby make the world a better place.

Lists links to writings by and about the major utilitarian figures --David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, R. M. Hare and Peter Singer.

Sites of people who acknowledge egoism either philosophically or psychologically.

Article by William Turner from 1912, evaluating this school of thought.

Article by Edward Moore focusing on Plotinus, Porphyry and Proclus.

Digest of this school's teachings and its relation to Platonism.

Brad Inwood reviews Jonathan Barnes book.

Ancient as well as modern Stoicism information and discussion.

Concise outline of this movement and its development, from PhilosophyPages.

Life and work of this 15th Century Oxford Realist philosopher; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Alessandro Conti.

14th-century Oxford thinker, a contemporary of Burley and Bradwardine. Article by Elzbieta Jung-Palczewska, from the Stanford Encyclopedia.

Monthly discussion in the DC area.

A political party with a platform based on the ideas of Objectivism.

Rand's declared heir lists lectures, books, and recent media appearances.

A webring meant to connect all the web-pages that provide detailed information on 20th Century philosopher Ayn Rand.

A webring for websites that contains objectivist/individualist/libertarian ideas.

A theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture, by Steven Shaviro.

Biographical essay with some translated hymns and prayers by this Scholastic thinker.

Life and work of 20th century German philosopher and critical theorist; by Lambert Zuidervaart.

Lecture notes by S. Marc Cohen. Focuses on the relation of Anaximander's thought to that of Thales.

Online texts of Antiphon's speeches, in Greek and English.

Article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Article drawn from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article from the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia on the Arnauld family, with a lengthy section on Antoine Arnauld.

Summary of this key early feminist essay, with notes on various issues which the text might raise for students.

Article by Aubenque on the Limits of a Philosophical Refutation of Skepticism, Diogenes July 1985.

Article covering Avicenna's life, work and influence, supplemented with an extensive biography.

Notes by writing teacher Douglas Eyman, on the pertinence of Bakhtin's analyses of discourse to the hypertext situation.