EpistemeLinks.com Update Newsletter, v.7, #4,
9/1/2003
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Newsletter
Headlines:
** Limited Re-design of the EpistemeLinks.com **
** New
Sponsors Program: Help Support EpistemeLinks.com **
** Quotations Section Now
Includes Links to Quote Pages **
** New Top-level Section: Software and Other
Interactives **
** Bibliographies Section Greatly Expanded **
** A "New!"
indicator graphic now in use **
** Xrefer.com Removes OCP Entries From its
Free Site **
** Encarta Links Cleaned Up: Many Removed, Some Added **
**
New Entries at the SEP **
** Upcoming Events in Philosophy
(September/October) **
Details for each item follow below.
**
Limited Re-design of EpistemeLinks.com **
The entire site was given a
face-lift. The pages at the site are now wider, and targeted at monitors that
are displaying at 800 pixel-wide or greater. Most pages now display the
navigation sidebar on the far left (instead of on the right as it had been for
many years). Then the middle column has the page's main content. Other than the
homepage and the "About ELC" section, the far right side of each page currently
displays text-based ads generated from Google. This column may include other
advertising in the future, in place of the banner advertising I used for many
years at the top and bottom of each page. (It is my hope that this advertising
will be both more effective as a revenue source and less intrusive and jarring
for users. EpistemeLinks.com does not display pop-up or pop-under advertising at
all -- I find that to be very annoying!)
** New Sponsors Program: Help
Support EpistemeLinks.com **
Starting Sept. 1, individuals, organizations,
and companies can become "sponsors" of EpistemeLinks.com by paying as little as
$5 per 6 months. The main pages as well as all philosopher and topic sections
can be sponsored. Sponsor messages, many with links, will appear in a gray box
near the upper right of the sponsored pages. From Sept. - May, EpistemeLinks.com
averages over 4,000 users per day. These visitors are an intelligent, highly
targeted audience -- and almost all of them are interested in philosophy of
course! Sponsorship would be great for individuals with a favorite philosopher
or topic, authors who want to promote their latest book, organizations who wish
to promote their ideas, or publishers or other companies who want to promote
their products and services. Sponsorships help to support the creator of
EpistemeLinks.com, so that more links and new features can be added to the site
in the future. See the program details and pricing information on these two
pages:
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Info/InfoSpon.aspx
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Info/InfoPrice.aspx
**
Quotations Section Now Includes Links to Quote Pages **
The Quotations
section has been greatly expanded! It now includes nearly 400 links to webpages
that have quotations by a particular philosopher or in one of the topic
categories used at EpistemeLinks.com. Using this section of ELC gives you quick
access to a wealth of philosophy quotes -- as some of these linked pages have
several dozen or more quotations each! In addition, I have also added another
50+ quotations to ELC's database, from philosophers such as Machiavelli,
Montaigne, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Pascal, Locke, Spinoza, Burke, Vico, Smith,
Helvetius, Rousseau, and Hume. More will continue to be added over time.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainQuot.aspx
**
New Top-level Section: Software and Other Interactives **
A new top-level
section has been added to EpistemeLinks.com. The Software and Interactives
section includes links to logic programs, critical thinking software, and
various philosophy-related tutorials, games, and interactives. Some of these
links were formerly included in other areas of the site, others are new links
entirely.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainSoft.aspx
**
Bibliographies Section Greatly Expanded **
The Bibliographies section now
includes links to the bibliography section of each entry from the Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy that I have linked in the Encyclopedias section.
These entries often provide an extensive bibliography of their respective
subjects, so I wanted to make finding them at EpistemeLinks.com a bit
easier.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainBibl.aspx
** A
"New!" Indicator Graphic Now in Use **
A small graphic -- with "New!" in
green -- is now being used throughout the site to indicate newly added links to
the EpistemeLinks.com database. Any link added in the past year is marked with
this graphic. The icon does not mean that the site that is linked is itself
"new", just that its inclusion at ELC has occurred in the past 365 days. In
essence, results from all sections at ELC support this graphic, with one notable
exception being the Events section.
** Xrefer.com Removes OCP Entries
From its Free Site **
Unfortunately, due to changes at xrefer.com, all of the
entries from the Oxford Companion to Philosophy and the Encyclopedia of the
Renaissance have been removed from the free site. I therefore have removed all
of my links to these entries. This is a major loss, as the OCP links along
numbered well over 1,500. I am hopeful that this content will resurface on the
Internet for free in the future, and I can easily recreate all the links at that
time.
** Encarta Links Cleaned Up: Many Removed, Some Added
**
Similarly, the Encyclopedia Entries section no longer has as many links to
entries from the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia. I have removed links to those
entries that currently require membership as an MSN Encarta Plus member. At this
time I am only linking to those entries that are freely available. During this
process, however, I was able to add many new links to free philosophy entries
that I hadn't included thus far.
** 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 42 more articles, listed below. These articles are
all linked from their publication list page at http://plato.stanford.edu/published.html. (Authors are
given in parentheses)
Creationism (Michael Ruse)
Nothingness (Roy
Sorensen)
John Scottus Eriugena (Dermot Moran)
Peter Damian (Toivo J.
Holopainen)
Logic and Artificial Intelligence (Richmond Thomason)
Karl
Marx (Jonathan Wolff)
Anthony Collins (William Uzgalis)
Dualism (Howard
Robinson)
Life (Bruce Weber)
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions (Andrew
Brennan)
The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (Georges Rey)
Paul Natorp
(Alan Kim)
Intentionality (Pierre Jacob)
Descartes' Ethics (Donald
Rutherford)
Hilbert's Program (Richard Zach)
Medieval Theories of
Haecceity (Richard Cross)
Autonomy in Moral and Political Philosophy (John
Christman)
Xenocrates (Russell Dancy)
Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking
(Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani)
Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis
de Secondat (Hilary Bok)
Virtue Ethics (Rosalind Hursthouse)
States of
Affairs (Thomas Wetzel)
Medieval Theories of Obligationes (Paul Vincent
Spade)
Binarium Famosissimum (Paul Vincent Spade)
The Moral Status of
Animals (Lori Gruen)
The Computational Theory of Mind (Steven
Horst)
Plotinus (Lloyd Gerson)
Bayes' Theorem (James Joyce)
Archytas
(Carl Huffman)
Punishment (Hugo Adam Bedau)
Roman Ingarden (Amie
Thomasson)
Biodiversity (Daniel P. Faith)
Giambattista Vico (Timothy
Costelloe)
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology (Allan
Silverman)
Biological Altruism (Samir Okasha)
Sovereignty (Dan
Philpott)
Lvov-Warsaw School (Jan Wolenski)
Speusippus (Russell
Dancy)
The Free Rider Problem (Russell Hardin)
Consequentialism (Walter
Sinnott-Armstrong)
Mereology (Achille Varzi)
Arthur Schopenhauer (Robert
Wicks)
** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (September and October)
**
EpistemeLinks.com provides a browseable event calendar at http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspx with
descriptions and links for philosophy conferences. The September and October
events include:
12th UK Conference on the Foundations of Physics
http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/%7Ephldpr/index.html
9/2/2003
- 9/5/2003
First International Conference on Teaching Applied and
Professional Ethics in Higher Education
http://www.federalsurrey.ac.uk/conferences/fuscape.asp
9/2/2003
- 9/4/2003
British Logic Colloquium 2003
http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~blc/
9/3/2003 -
9/6/2003
Leibniz and the English-Speaking World
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/bshp/fconfs/leibniz/leibniz.htm
9/3/2003
- 9/6/2003
Hegel and Social Theory
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~jgf2/conference.htm
9/4/2003
- 9/5/2003
Arche Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Logic,
Language, Mathematics and Mind
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jrgw/archegradconf.html
9/4/2003
- 9/6/2003
3rd Conference on the Capability Approach From Sustainable
Development to Sustainable Freedom
http://cfs.unipv.it/sen/index.html
9/8/2003 -
9/10/2003
III Principia International Symposium: The Works of Quine
http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/principia/
9/8/2003 -
9/11/2003
Aesthetics and Politics (6th Annual SEP Conference)
http://www.essex.ac.uk/philosophy/sep/index.htm
9/9/2003
- 9/11/2003
Nietzsche, Art and Aesthetics
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/philosophy/conferences/fns/index.htm
9/12/2003
- 9/14/2003
BSA Annual Conference
http://www.british-aesthetics.org/
9/12/2003 -
9/14/2003
Investigating the Mind Conference
http://www.investigatingthemind.org/
9/13/2003 -
9/14/2003
Scottish Postgraduate Philosophy Association Winter Conference
2003
http://www.societies.stir.ac.uk/sppa/2003winterconf.htm
9/13/2003
- 9/13/2003
Intersubjectivity and Embodiment. Perspectives from
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
http://www2.canisius.edu/~gallaghr/pcslouvain.html
9/15/2003
- 9/16/2003
Ethics, Complexity & Organisations
http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk:16080/complexity/Front/dual_international_conference_.htm
9/17/2003
- 9/17/2003
31st Annual Meeting of the International Association for the
Philosophy of Sport
http://www.iaps.paisley.ac.uk/iaps2003.html
9/18/2003 -
9/21/203
Epiphenomenalism: Dead End or Way Out?
http://www.pauen.net/epiphen/
9/21/2003 -
9/22/2003
Unassumable Responsibility: New Perspectives on Freedom,
Justice and Obligation
http://arts.anu.edu.au/respconf/
9/22/2003 -
9/23/2003
Encounters with Derrida
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/HUMCENTR/derrida2003/
9/22/2003
- 9/23/2003
Methods for Modalities
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~m4m/
9/22/2003 -
9/23/2003
Social and Political Thought Graduate Conference
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/SPT/conferences/grad2003/
9/25/2003
- 9/26/2003
Philosophy of Need
http://www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org/conference_2003.htm
9/26/2003
- 9/28/2003
South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern
Philosophy
http://philosophy.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/seminar03.html
9/26/2003
- 9/27/2003
Where is Your Head At? Mental Processes, Communication and
Rules
http://sifa.unige.it/vietri/
10/2/2003 -
10/3/2003
Skepticism in Contemporary Epistemology
http://callisto.si.usherb.ca/ybouchard/symposium/
10/3/2003
- 10/4/2003
Fifth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and
Computation
http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/
10/6/2003 -
10/10/2003
Issues in Computer Ethics: Practical and Theoretical
http://sun1.sjfc.edu/~wildenbe/ethics-conf.html
10/10/2003
- 10/11/2003
Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Critical Issues
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/AI/ai03cfp.htm
10/20/2003
- 10/22/2003
Reasonable Partiality
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ozse/lustrum03.htm
10/22/2003 -
10/24/2003
Canadian Jacques Maritain Association Symposium
http://iago.stfx.ca/people/wsweet/Maritain03b-1.html
10/24/2003
- 10/25/2003
28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies
http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/meetings.html
10/30/2003 -
11/2/2003
The Logic of Time and Modality
http://www.philog.ruc.dk/phiconf3.html
10/31/2003 -
11/1/2003
Computing and Philosophy
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/cappe/cap.htm
10/31/2003
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11/2/2003
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