EpistemeLinks.com Update Newsletter, v.6, #3, 6/09/2002
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EpistemeLinks.com is now in its 6th year online! It has been about six
weeks since the last newsletter, and I have a few items to report.
As always, the latest links added to the ELC database can be found at the
What's New? page:
Newsletter Headlines:
** Extensive Additions to Philosopher Birth/Death Calendars **
** Journals Section Expanded and Updated **
** Ebay.com Added to Books Section **
** ELC Usage Statistics Improved and Updated **
** Latest ELC "Gems of the Web" Winners **
** New Entries at the SEP **
** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (June/July) **
Details for each item follow below.
** Extensive Additions to Philosopher Birth/Death Calendars **
I have recently done some additional research to add more birthdays and
dates of death for philosophers in the ELC database. I now have data for over
400 philosophers, though in some cases exact dates are not available. This
information is displayed on the main philosopher pages (near the top), but is
also used on the Philosopher Birthday and Dates of Death Calendars. Further,
I've created Top-10 lists for the shortest and longest lifespans (for those
philosophers indexed at ELC who have reliable year-data for both events). See
these lists below each of the two calendars.
** Journals Section Expanded and Updated **
As you can see from the links listed on the What's New? page, I have been
working a great deal on the Journals section recently. In addition to the
numerous updated (dozens) and added (125+) journal links, I have also started to
add features to this section of ELC. Where available, the name of the publisher
of the journal (print) will be displayed in the search results (about half of
the journals have this information included so far). Also, the biggest
publishers of philosophy journals (18 presses so far) can now be used as search
terms to return only those journals produced by each publisher. Additional
features are coming!
** Ebay.com Added to Books Section **
The books section has been further upgraded. Following on April's re-design
of the search features provided, I've now added two search options for
Ebay.com—the world's largest online auction (and one of my favorite sites). You
can now easily perform both books-only and general merchandise searches by
philosopher name or topic area. The general Ebay search is also available
towards the bottom of each Philosopher's main page (along with the search links
for Amazon.com, Powells.com, and others).
** ELC Usage Statistics Improved and Updated **
The ELC Usage Statistics section has been updated. It now includes overall
site usage statistics (page views and user sessions), as well as data on
browsers and operating systems. Each section has both tables and color
line-graphs demonstrating the data. The overall data is monthly and through May
2002. The browser and OS data is quarterly and through Q1 2002.
** 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 Philosophers' Magazine
(the second follow-up winner, first won in Sept. 1998!)
PHILOS-L
PHILOSOP
(joint June/July/August winners)
** 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 24 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)
Environmental Ethics (Andrew Brennan and Yeuk-Sze Lo)
Alan Turing (Andrew Hodges)
Personal Autonomy (Sarah Buss)
Nicolas Malebranche (Tad Schmaltz)
Death (Steven Luper)
The Biological Notion of Self and Non-self (Alfred Tauber)
Omnipotence (Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz)
Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s (George
Gale)
Doing vs. Allowing Harm (Frances Howard-Snyder)
Desert (Owen McLeod)
Privacy (Judith DeCew)
Modal Fictionalism (Daniel Nolan)
Philosophy and Christian Theology (Michael Murray)
John Buridan (Jack Zupko)
The Correspondence Theory of Truth (Marian David)
Thomas of Erfurt (Jack Zupko)
The Epsilon Calculus (Jeremy Avigad and Richard Zach)
Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Jan Faye)
Aristotle's Rhetoric (Christof Rapp)
Philosophy for Children (Michael Pritchard)
Zeno's Paradoxes (Nick Huggett)
Determinates vs. Determinables (David H. Sanford)
Events (Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi)
Relative Identity (Harry Deutsch)
** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (June/July) **
Natural Representations: Naturalism, Pragmatism and the Idealist
Tradition
6/8/2002 - 6/10/2002
Choices and Models
6/10/2002 - 6/10/2002
ECAP 4: Fourth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy
6/14/2002 - 6/18/2002
LOGICA Symposium 2002
6/18/2002 - 6/21/2022
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 28th Annual Meeting
6/20/2002 - 6/23/2002
Intentionality: Past and Future
6/21/2002 - 6/23/2002
The Intellectual Frontiers of Music
6/24/2002 - 6/25/2002
Developing Philosophy of Management - Crossing Frontiers
6/26/2002 - 6/29/2002
Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease
6/27/2002 - 6/29/2002
8th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment
6/27/2002 - 6/29/2002
Objectivism: Theory and Practice
6/29/2002 - 7/6/2002
Argumentation in dialogic interaction
7/1/2002 - 7/4/2002
The Will in Moral Psychology
7/1/2002 - 7/2/2002
Innateness and the Structure of the Mind
7/3/2002 - 7/6/2002
Karl Popper 2002 Centenary Congress
7/3/2002 - 7/4/2002
British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference
7/4/2002 - 7/5/2002
The Origins of Modernity: European Thought 1543-1789
7/4/2002 - 7/6/2002
Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association
7/5/2002 - 7/8/2002
Australasian Association of Philosophy
7/7/2002 - 7/12/2002
Temporal Representation and Reasoning
7/7/2002 - 7/9/2002
Sir Karl Popper Centenary Conference
7/12/2002 - 7/14/2002
8th International French-German Philosophy Colloquium
7/14/2002 - 7/20/2002
19th International Social Philosophy Conference
7/18/2002 - 7/20/2002
Meaning Negotiation
7/28/2002 - 7/28/2002
14th Biennial International Workshop-Conference on Teaching
Philosophy
7/31/2002 - 8/4/2002
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