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FOLDOP - Free On-Line Dictionary of Philosophy Edited by Luciano Floridi and Gian Paolo
Terravecchia, it is the on-line dictionary of philosophy from SWIF. It offers
visitors an internal search engine.
From "RAI" (the Italian public
television). This site (it's in Italian) is a well-done informative service
on philosophy and humanities; it works in collaboration with some cultural
transmissions ("Il Grillo", "Aforismi",
"Questioni di filosofia").
Edited by Edward N. Zalta (see the site of The Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of
Language and Information of Stanford University). This is the
first dynamic encyclopedia, in which articles are constantly updated
by different experts. It offers visitors a table of contents.
Edited by James Fieser ( It offers visitors free access to over 50
reference titles containing more than 500,000 entries on Philosophy, Art,
Music, English Literature etc. (you can see an index of these titles at http://www.xrefer.com/allbooks.jsp). It is the online version of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. It deals with philosophy (history of philosophy,
metaphysics, epistemology and so on), history, arts, science etc.; for each
subject, it offers visitors a lot of links not only to the articles of the
Encyclopaedia, but also to external sites. There is also an excellent search
engine.
Edited by Garth Kemerling. This dictionary
suggests definitions of many terms of Western Philosophy and introduces to
some important philosophers; there are a lot of internal and external links.
It offers visitors a table of contents. From Justin Leiber (University of Houston).
This glossary deals with some philosophical (especially logical) concepts.
From Larry Hauser. It provides concise
definitions of some philosophical terms.
Edited by Andrew Chrucky. This site provides,
for a great number of philosophical terms, some links to other on-line
consultable works in which they have been introduced. Edited by Hartmut Krech (University of
Bremen). This is a bibliographical guide to the works of over 760 writers, of
different historical periods and various doctrines (not only philosophers);
the entries are arranged alphabetically. Edited by Robert Berman, this site deals with
some philosophical terms, mostly in ethics and epistemology. This is a humorous work, edited by Daniel
Dennett (Tufts University, Massachusetts). It is a satirical glossary of
alternative definitions for philosophical personalities and terms. E.g., a
"bertrand" is "(1) A state of profound abstraction of mind and
spirit; a trance. «He went into a bertrand and began to babble about the
class of all classes which are not member of themselves» (2) The state of a
person who suffers from delusions (e.g. as of one who doubts that, when he
sees a table, he sees a table), or has visions (e.g. of the present King of
France)".
Edited by Jeff Landauer and Joseph Rowlands,
this site provides short definitions (with genus and differentia)
for a great number of philosophical terms; there are also some links to more
detailed articles.
It’s the philosophical encyclopedia (with
articles on terms and concepts as well as on biographies) of AllRefer. AllRefer is an
educational resource which provides a comprehensive collection of reference,
encyclopedia, health, gazetteer, country studies, and educational databases;
includes more than 150,000 articles on topics covered under health, history,
science, people, places, arts, sports, plants, animals, technology,
philosophy, religion, literature, and more. |
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Edited by Lawrence M. Hinman (University
of San Diego). This site deals with some problems of ethical theory (such
as ethical relativism, ethics and religion, ethical utilitarianism, and so
on) and of applied ethics (bioethics, etc.); there is also a glossary of
ethical terminology. Edited by the Online Ethics Center for
Engineering and Science (Case Western Reserve University). This
glossary deals with terminology of ethics and of philosophy of law (terms
such as "administrative law", "affirmative action",
"civil rights", an so on). From Peter Suber (Earlham College,
Richmond). It deals with terminology and procedures of truth-functional
propositional logic and first-order predicate logic.
Edited by Florentin Smarandache. This site is
an introduction to the "Neutrosophy", which is, according to the
author, "a new branch of philosophy which studies the origin, nature,
and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different
ideational spectra". There are also consultable texts on neutrosophic method, neutrosophic probability, neutrosophic set and neutrosophic logic.
Edited by Chris Eliasmith (Washington
University, St. Louis). It deals with the subject very accurately, and
offers visitors lots of links to other on-line consultable works; there is an
internal search engine.
Edited by David Chalmers (University of
Arizona). It offers visitors over 700 links to online consultable papers
on consciousness and related topics (Metaphysics of consciousness,
Materialism and dualism, Panpsychism, Consciousness and artificial
intelligence, Godel's theorem and AI, Animal consciousness, and so on).
From the Philosophy of History Archive
(Novosibirskij Gosudarstvjennyj Univjersitjet, Russia). There are two
consultable glossaries in this site: "Some macrohistorical concepts",
from Nikolay S. Rozov, and "Glossary of civilizational Worldviews",
from D. Richardson. Edited by Chad Hansen (University of Hong
Kong). There are articles on five essential concepts of Chinese
Philosophy (Tao, You-wu, Shi-fei, Wu-wei,
Qing), and a few other articles on more general topics (Chinese
Philosophy of language, Chinese Philosophy of mind, etc.). From Robert T. Carroll. There are over 300
skeptical articles on occultism, supernatural, etc.; it offers visitors an
internal search engine.
Edited by Luciano Floridi. It is the glossary
of technical terms of the Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy for Computing and
Information; it is freely available, in .pdf. format. |
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Edited by Christopher Marvin (Trinity
College, Hartford, Connecticut). It is a listing of some of the major
contributors to modern and ancient thought; there is also a specific page on
Islamic thinkers. From Andy Blunden. This site deals with a lot
of essential Hegelian concepts; there are also a large number of links to
other on-line consultable articles.
Edited by Antonio Zirion Quijano (Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México). It wants to help philosophers to translate
Husserl's terminology from German into English and Spanish. From Andrew Carpenter (Antioch College,
Ohaio). This site deals with a lot of technical Kantian terms.
From Steve Palmquist. Its aim is to propose
simple, concise definitions of some essential Kantian terms. Edited by Giannis Stamatellos. This site
wants to introduce to the thought of Presocratic Philosophers, from Thales to
Democritus; however, the English version of the site (there's also a Greek version) is still under construction, and
there are only the pages devoted to Thales and Heraclitus. This page, prepared by Victor Daniels
(California State University, Sonoma) for his Seminar in Humanistic and
Existential Psychology, is a concise introduction to some important concepts
of Sartre's terminology.
Edited by Bill Uzgalis (Oregon State
University). The author deals with the "Era of the Great
Voyages", which is the historical period from 1492 to 1776: these
"great voyages" were voyages of the sailors and voyages in the
sphere of learning and ideas as well. Therefore, this web-site offers
visitors four sections devoted to history and philosophy: "Stories and
Themes", "Timeline", "Parts of Philosophy" and
"Philosophers" (with links to pages on some selected philosophers
of this period, such as Descartes, Malebranche, Hume and many others).
Edited by Peter Suber (Earlham College,
Richmond), this site is a biographical guide to the works of some
important women philosophers of the 17th and 18th
Centuries (Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Mary Wollstonecraft etc.). |
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From Math Academy Online. This is a
well-done mathematics encyclopedia, with a lot of links to internal and
external articles. It also offers visitors a great number of historical and
biographical entries. Edited by Darryl R. J. Macer (Eubios
Ethics Institute). This glossary aims at giving the scientific basis for
discussion upon bioethical questions. From Michael R.W. Dawson and David A. Medler
(University of Alberta). This site, devoted to scientific studies of
mind and consciousness, offers visitors a table of contents and an internal
search engine. From Thomas B. Cross (Cross Market
Management Company), TECHtionary is the world’s first animated dictionary on
telecommunications, data networking and internet technology. By the Institute for Learning and Research
Technology of the University of Bristol. |
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Edited by the "Ontario Consultants on
Religious Tolerance". Its goal is to clarify some religious terms,
in order to prevent misunderstandings and intolerance among different
religions. From New Advent. This is the on-line
version of The Catholic Encyclopedia: its aim is to present the Catholic
contributions in science, philosophy, literature, and so on; there is a table
of contents.
It is a well-done site, edited by the Christian
Classics Ethereal Library (at Wheaton College): there are links to
lots of downloadable works of Christian literature (S. Augustine, S. Thomas
Aquinas, Tolstoy, etc.); there are also some consultable biblical
dictionaries. This website contains the complete contents
of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between
1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public
domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. Edited by Lao Sze-kwang (Chinese
University of Hong Kong). This site's aim is to introduce to Confucianism;
there are various searching options. From Paul Trafford. This is a concise
glossary of Buddhist terminology. From Deb Platt, this site explores the
mystical traditions of six religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism,
Buddhism, Taoism) by comparing and contrasting quotations drawn from their
respective literatures. There is also a glossary of mystical terms for each
one of these religions. This is a online book of terms used by occult, pagan, spiritual, and metaphysical people in speech and writing. Definitions include links and illustrations. |
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This is a well-done site, which offers
visitors a lot of reference materials on ancient Greek civilization and
culture; there are a general encyclopedia, a very careful Greek lexicon, an
atlas of Greek world, an historical guide (with many cross-references), and
so on.
Edited by Michael Delahunt. This site,
enriched with a lot of pictures and a great number of links to other on-line
consultable works, deals with over 2800 terms of visual art; it offers
visitors a table of contents. From Robert J. Belton (Department of Fine
Arts at Okanagan University College). This site analyses many
terms of visual art and some philosophical concepts (it ranges from
"column" to "Absolute"), with a large number of internal
links. It offers visitors a table of contents.
This is a compilation of the terminology,
both general and specific, that students and professionals generally
encounter when reading library and information literature. |
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Encyclopedia
of Trotskyism On-Line From the Marxists Internet Archive, it is an
On-Line Resource Center for the Study of the International Trotskyist
Movement, with a lot of internal and external links to articles and documents. |
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Free Online Dictionary and Thesaurus English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries,
Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine
all in one. It is an interactive dictionary, with over
7.500.000 constantly updated words in several languages. From Robert Beard (Bucknell University,
Lewisburg). This site offers 800 on-line consultable dictionaries in 150
languages.
For your further searches, you can check this
site. |
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