EpistemeLinks.com Update Newsletter, v.7, #1

EpistemeLinks.com Update Newsletter, v.7, #1, 1/1/2003
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Happy new year! I hope you are doing well and off to a great start in the new year. This marks the beginning of ELC's 7th year online, and the new links, new sections, and new features keep coming. There is a lot to report in this newsletter, so please read on...

As always, the latest particular links added to the ELC database can be found at the What's New? page:
http://www.epistemelinks.com/New.aspx

Newsletter Headlines:
** New Bibliographies Top-Level Section **
** Hundreds of Wikipedia Entries Linked **
** Dead Link Sweep is Again Underway **
** ELC Usage Statistics Includes all of 2002 **
** New Entries at the SEP **
** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (January/February) **

Details for each item follow below.

** New Bibliographies Top-Level Section **
A new top-level section, Bibliographies, has been created at ELC. I have long linked to philosophy bibliographies as part of the primary philosopher and topic result pages, but I am now providing these links in their own section. I have also added links to several dozen additional bibliographies in recent weeks, and will be adding many more in the near future as my research continues.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainBibl.aspx

** Hundreds of Wikipedia Entries Linked **
I have added 572 links to philosophy-related encyclopedia entries from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Most of these have been categorized as well. Although all entries at this resource are works in progress, and some are of higher quality than others, the overall value of this site is impressive. Its rate of growth, and its community-based system of checks and balances, is quite astonishing. If you are not familiar with this resource, I encourage you to check it out and monitor its progress. I will do my best to keep up with the latest philosophy-related entries and link them at ELC as appropriate.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEncy.aspx

** Dead Link Sweep is Again Underway **
In November I created an updated tool to help partially-automate the search for "dead" links in the ELC database. The new tool can help me find both sites that are completely gone and sites or pages that still exist but have a jump or redirect to a new location. Thus far, I have updated or removed numerous links in the Classroom, Journals and Magazines, Publishers, and Organizations sections. Additional sections will be covered in the coming months, to help improve the overall user experience of ELC. While working on this I also spent time adding descriptions for those organization links that lack them. Nearly 90% now have such annotations. Most are quoted directly from each site's own mission statement, to help ensure accuracy.

** ELC Usage Statistics Includes all of 2002 **
The ELC Usage Statistics section has been updated. It now includes overall site usage statistics (page views and user sessions) through December 2002 and browsers and operating systems data through the fourth quarter of 2002. Each section has both tables and color line-graphs demonstrating the data.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Info/InfoStat.asp

** 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 16 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)

Envy (Justin D'Arms)
Change (Chris Mortensen)
Fatalism (Hugh Rice)
Herbert Spencer (David Weinstein)
Fitness (Alexander Rosenberg and Frederic Bouchard)
Feminist Approaches to the Intersection of Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy (Shannon Sullivan)
Plato on Utopia (Chris Bobonich)
Law and Language (Timothy Endicott)
Franz Brentano (Wolfgang Huemer)
Moses Mendelssohn (Daniel Dahlstrom)
Freedom of Speech (David van Mill)
Time (Ned Markosian)
David Hartley (Richard Allen)
Structuralism in Physics (Heinz-Juergen Schmidt)
Narrow Mental Content (Curtis Brown)
The Pure Theory of Law (Andrei Marmor)

** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (January/February) **
EpistemeLinks.com provides a browseable event calendar at http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspx with descriptions and links for philosophy conferences. The January and February events include:

Hume, Motivation, 'Is' and 'Ought'
http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/hume/
1/19/2003 - 1/24/2003

29th Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa
http://philweb.ru.ac.za/pssa/
1/19/2003 - 1/22/2003

Prairie Provinces Undergraduate Philosophy Association Conference 2003
http://ursu.uregina.ca/~pss/ppupa/ppupa.html
1/24/2003 - 1/26/2003

Russian-Anglo American Conference on Cosmology and Theology
http://www.fandm.edu/Departments/Philosophy/NDConference/philosophy.htm
1/30/2003 - 2/1/2003

Christine de Pizan's Political Philosophy: Context, Content and Consequences
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/history/events/pizan/
2/3/2003 - 2/4/2003

Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ejgc2cfp.htm
2/12/2003 - 2/16/2003

50th Annual Southeastern Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
http://itw.sewanee.edu/philosophy/Conference/flyer.html
2/14/2003 - 2/15/2003

Foundations of the Formal Sciences IV
http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/fotfs/IV/
2/14/2003 - 2/17/2003

Midsouth Philosophy Conference and Undergraduate Conference
http://www.lclark.edu/~midsouth/
2/21/2003 - 2/22/2003

Should Everyone Be Above Average? Medical Enhancement -- Reconsidering The Promises
http://philosophy.okstate.edu/projects.htm
2/21/2003 - 2/22/2003

Seventh Annual Brown Graduate Philosophy Conference
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/gradconference.html
2/22/2003 - 2/23/2003

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Tom Stone, EpistemeLinks.com