EpistemeLinks.com Update Newsletter, v.6, #6, 11/16/2002
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I hope you are doing well. I've been busy lately doing some follow up work
on the major upgrade the site went through during the late summer (detailed in
the last Update Newsletter). Much of this is behind-the-scenes coding and
administrative enhancements, the benefits of which are likely not immediately
obvious to visitors to the site. As a result, this update includes a bit less
than normal -- but there are still a few things worth drawing your attention
to!
As always, the latest links added to the ELC database can be found at the
What's New? page:
Newsletter Headlines:
** New Philosophy Video Section **
** Extend Your Search Links **
** New Related Topics/Philosophers Cross-links **
** Gem of the Web Program Ended, But Archived **
** New Entries at the SEP **
** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (November/December) **
Details for each item follow below.
** New Philosophy Video Section **
A new section, Philosophy Video, has been added to EpistemeLinks.com.
Similar to the Audio section, this new area provides links to philosophy-related
VHS tapes and DVDs, as well as streaming online lectures or other presentations
in a variety of formats (MPG, Real, Windows, QuickTime, etc.). There are over
100 links already included, categorized as always by philosopher and topic area.
I hope to add many more such links in the coming months.
** Extend Your Search Links **
All philosopher and topic results pages now provide extended search links
after the primary results on the page. These links will let you quickly search
for the desired philosopher or topic at the philosophy-specific search engines
Noesis and Hippias, the paper archive from the 20th World Congress of
Philosophy, and at several major search engines. After these links, in some
cases, the results pages also now provide an Amazon.com popular titles box,
customized for the chosen philosopher or topic.
** New Related Topics/Philosophers Cross-links **
Many topic results pages now provide links to both related topics and
related philosophers, below the primary results for that page. My
categorizations of both cross-topics and cross-philosophers are works in
progress. In the future I will be doing the same for the philosopher results
pages.
** Gem of the Web Program Ended, But Archived **
The "Gems of the Web" program has been discontinued. This was an award
program that recognized a philosophy content site every month or two as being
one of the best available. Such sites were reviewed and linked from the homepage
and are still archived (see first link). In its place I have created a one-page
directory of the best philosophy sites on the Internet -- including the previous
Gems winners and more (see second link). Additional sites will be added to this
page periodically. It is intended to be a great place for anyone new to
philosophy online to get started.
** 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 29 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)
Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (Michael Dickson)
Paul Ricoeur (Bernard Dauenhauer)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Anat Biletzki and Anat Matar)
Paternalism (Gerald Dworkin)
Peter Auriol (Russell L. Friedman)
Supererogation (David Heyd)
Egoism (Robert Shaver)
The Epistemic Basing Relation (Keith Allen Korcz)
Alfred Schutz (Michael Barber)
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value (Michael J. Zimmerman)
Externalism About Mental Content (Joe Lau)
Xenophanes (James Lesher)
Mohism (Chris Fraser)
Interpretations of the Probability Calculus (Alan Hájek)
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (Lorne Falkenstein)
Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy (Eileen Sweeney)
Special Obligations (Diane Jeske)
Children's Rights (David William Archard)
Theories of Criminal Law (Antony Duff)
Equality of Opportunity (Richard Arneson)
Fitch's Paradox of Knowability (Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno)
Parenthood (Tim Bayne and Avery Kolers)
Scientific Progress (Ilkka Niiniluoto)
Civic Humanism (Athanasios Moulakis)
Object (Henry Laycock)
Emergent Properties (Timothy O'Connor and Hong Yu Wong)
The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics (Mark Murphy)
The Problem of Evil (Michael Tooley)
The Philosophy of Childhood (Gareth Matthews)
** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (November/December) **
North American Conference on Philosophical Counseling
11/1/2002 - 11/3/2002
Activism, Ideology, and Radical Philosophy
11/7/2002 - 11/10/2002
Realism and Antirealism -- Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of
Christian Philosophers
11/14/2002 - 11/16/2002
Making Sense of Dying and Death
11/14/2002 - 11/16/2002
6th Annual Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference
11/16/2002 - 11/17/2002
Philosophy as…
11/28/2002 - 11/30/2002
A New Research Agenda for Philosophy
11/30/2002 - 11/30/2002
ASCP 2002: Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
12/11/2002 - 12/13/2002
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting
12/27/2002 - 12/30/2002
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