EpistemeLinks.com Update Newsletter, v.5, #5,  12/31/2001

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This is the last ELC Update for 2001. EpistemeLinks.com will soon be starting its 6th year online! I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank everyone who has emailed me over the years with new or updated Website URLs, with constructive criticism, or with kind words about the site.

As always, the latest links added to the ELC database can be found at the What's New? page:

Newsletter Headlines:

** Easier to use Philosopher/Topic Result Pages **

** Google/Yahoo/Altavista Philosopher Links Added **

** Thoemmes and Top-Biography Reference Links Added **

** Latest ELC "Gems of the Web" Winners **

** New Entries at the SEP **

** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (Jan/Feb) **

Details for each item follow below.

** Easier to use Philosopher/Topic Result Pages **

I have upgraded the appearance of result pages for the main Philosopher and Topic sections. The primary listing of sites that appears on the left is now broken down into sections: Web Sites, Bibliography Pages, Biographies and Brief Reference Sites, Additional and Miscellaneous Pages, and Link Pages. This makes the list of resources easier to use, to find exactly what kind of resource you need. The Encyclopedia and other reference sources are still shown as before on the right-hand side of the results pages. (Please note: Not all links have been properly categorized yet, with many still appearing in the first group that will be moved to the others soon.)

** Google/Yahoo/Altavista Philosopher Links Added **

I have added links to the various Philosopher pages from three of the biggest Web Directories: Google, Yahoo!, and AltaVista. More and more of these sites are using either LookSmart or Open Directory's data, so they are becoming quite redundant. I elected to use these three only for now, because of name recognition and the ease of use of their sites, but I may add more in the future. These links can be found at the bottom of the Philosopher result pages, and provide a quick and easy way to extend your searching.

** Thoemmes and Top-Biography Reference Links Added **

I have now added about two dozen links to the philosopher sites from Top-Biography.com. This is a major reference site from India, and they provide biographies on hundreds of people beyond philosophers. I have also added links to seventeen of the entries at the Thoemmes Online Encyclopedia. Links from both of these resources appear for each appropriate philosopher result page.

** Latest ELC "Gems of the Web" Winners **

Each month (usually) EpistemeLinks.com gives a "Gem of the Web" award to an outstanding philosophy resource site. The most recent winners have been:

The Ism Book,  by Peter Saint-Andre

The Philosophical Gourmet Report, by Brian Leiter

** New Entries at the SEP **

I like to draw attention to the latest entries at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, because it provides such well-written articles. Since my last newsletter, the SEP has added 26 more articles, listed below. These articles are all linked from their What's New page at http://plato.stanford.edu/new.html. (Authors are given in parentheses)

Antonio Rosmini (Denis Cleary)

Affirmative Action (Robert Fullinwider)

Giles of Rome (Roberto Lambertini)

Exploitation (Alan Wertheimer)

Legal Rights (Kenneth Campbell)

Laozi (Alan Chan)

Non-monotonic Logic (Aldo Antonelli)

Skepticism (Peter Klein)

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (George di Giovanni)

Replication (David Hull)

Mental Illness (Christian Perring)

Nationalism (Nenad Miscevic)

Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity (Thomas A. Ryckman)

Legal Philosophy: The Economic Analysis of Law (Lewis Kornhauser)

Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time (Craig Callender)

Zhuangzi (Harold Roth)

Model Theory (Wilfrid Hodges)

First-order Model Theory (Wilfrid Hodges)

Tarski's Truth Definitions (Wilfrid Hodges)

Causation in the Law (Antony Honoré)

Well Being (Roger Crisp)

Bohmian Mechanics (Sheldon Goldstein)

Johann Gottfried von Herder (Michael Forster)

Spinoza's Psychological Theory (Michael LeBuffe)

Law and Ideology (Christine Sypnowich)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (Andrew Bowie)

** Recent and Upcoming Events in Philosophy (Jan./Feb.) **

EpistemeLinks.com provides a browseable event calendar at http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspx with descriptions and links for philosophy events and conferences. The upcoming events include:

Mind and Consciousness: Various Approaches

1/9/2002 - 1/11/2002

Fifth Mark Powell Conference

1/26/2002

Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

2/15/2002 - 2/17/2002

Midsouth Philosophy Conference

2/22/2002 - 2/23/2002

49th Southeastern Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2/22/2002 - 2/23/2002

The End of Natural Motherhood? The Artificial Womb and Designer Babies

2/22/2002 - 2/23/2002

Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science

2/24/2002 - 2/26/2002

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