To begin with: There is SO much philosophy information online. There are quite a few blogs, databases to find articles and books, and philosophy organizations’ web sites. I’ve selected five fairly interesting ones which I came upon by following links listed on the following sites, www.stlawu.edu/library/sp-phil.html and web.stlawu.edu/philosophy.
1. The Philosophical Gourmet Report
(http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/)
This website provides a ranking of various university philosophy departments in the United States from the best to the 99th best. The main page provides links to the advisors who were on the report’s evaluation board. It seems like an interesting idea though I do not know how renowned the Gourmet Report is. However, at the very least it is fun to click the links leading to the advisors’ profile pages. I like reading about their accomplishments and the specific aspects of philosophy they have devoted their lives to.
2. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (http://www.rep.routledge.com/?authstatuscode=202)
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online has links to many different articles (more than 2000 it says!). There are also book reviews and the viewer can search the site by subject. This appears quite useful and would be extremely interesting to randomly read some of the articles.
3. Erratic Impact: philosophy research
(http://www.erraticimpact.com/)
Erratic Impact is a database which enables someone to find philosophical information in books by history, subject or author. It appears to be affiliated with Yahoo and Amazon, but it would be useful if one were browsing a specific topic.
4. Lemmings
(http://lemmingsblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/apa-report-status-of-women-in.html
This is a blog called Lemmings which is ‘devoted to issues in language, epistemology, metaphysics, and the mind.’ This particular blog, dated April 23, 2007 is a summary report of an APA Committees meeting on the Status of Women (Philosophers) and Inclusiveness. In the blog she lists facts and possible reasons as to why there continues to be far less women in all areas of philosophy (even undergraduate majors!) This is a thoughtful and fairly interesting dialogue. I would like to read more of the posts she has written.
5. FirstSearch PhilosopherIndex Advances Search (http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPrefs?entityjsdetect=:javascript=true:screensize=large:sessionid=fsapp7-57249-f6k58kky-j3ux6x:entitypagenum=1:0)
This is a database provided as a part of ODY Library’s services. One can use it to find all sorts journal articles and published essays by date, language, subject, author, title, keyword, or many other ways. This kind of search engine is, of course essential when researching a philosophy subject. Besides, the things one comes up with will likely be quite interesting!
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This is an interesting listing of websites!
The Philosophical Gourmet Report is controversial in terms of its rankings, and yet is also such a helpful compilation of information that people do find it a very helpful starting place when researching graduate programs in philosophy.
I had not yet seen Erratic Impact -- thank you for drawing my attention to this site. I will explore it further.
The Routledge Encyclopedia is a great reference source, and the Philosopher's Index is an excellent research tool for doing research: finding journal articles published in philosophy journals.
And the report on the status of women in philosophy was sobering. Things have not been changing as quickly as we had hoped or expected.
One of the comments to this blog posting points to the Gender Genie.
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
I think the methodology of this has been questioned -- but I could not resist trying it. I felt a bit taken aback when I entered some of my philosophical writing in it and it analyzed my writing as being "male"! Do women have to write in a "male" sort of way to succeed in philosophy?!? (Or is the methodology questionable enough that we can just, er, ignore this?)
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