EpistemeLinks.com Update Newsletter, v.7, #6, 12/31/2003
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Happy New Year! I hope this email newsletter finds you doing well and enjoying the season. I know that many readers are off from school right now and gearing up to go back to another semester of teaching, learning, researching, or writing, and I hope your endeavors start out well in the new year.

Several worthy items to report since the mid-November newsletter -- with the first being the most important as it effects future versions of 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:
** This Email Newsletter will be Changing -- IMPORTANT **
** Philosopher Images Added **
** EBay.com Auction Search Feature Added **
** The Dead Link Sweep Continues **
** New Entries at the SEP **
** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (January and February) **

Details for each item follow below.

** This Email Newsletter will be Changing -- IMPORTANT **
The process by which this email newsletter is sent to subscribers will soon change. Instead of being managed manually, I intend to use a "groups" service, likely the Yahoo! Groups service. The group created will be only for the distribution of this email newsletter -- I will be the only one allowed to send an email to the group, and it will *not* be a discussion group. This move will have many beneficial effects. Maintaining the subscription list is now one of the most time-consuming aspects of running this website. Many people get dropped from the subscription list unintentionally, due to SPA*M filters on their University or ISP servers. Making this switch will likely allow me to send out more timely newsletters -- perhaps as often as once per month (instead of only 5 or 6 times a year).

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** Philosopher Images Added **
75 images of individual philosophers have been added to the site. These are displayed near the top of each of that philosopher's pages, just under the name and next to any birth/death date information. I hope to add more images in the near future. These first 75 are versions of the images provided by the Thoemmes Continuum gallery, a wonderful resource that provides hundreds of images of philosophers and other intellectuals throughout history.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainPers.aspx


** EBay.com Auction Search Feature Added **
A new feature of the site has been added: EBay Auction Search Results. Here I provide a form for keyword searches of the database of items available for auction at eBay.com. You can search using the provided philosopher or topic drop-down menus, or you can type in your own keyword. Up to 50 results are displayed at EpistemeLinks.com, with links to each item's page at eBay and a link to the complete search results. Links for search results pages will also be found in some of the philosopher and topic "Related Resources" sections at the top. If you are not yet an eBay user, I encourage you to follow the links at this site and sign up... there are always millions of items available for auction every day.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEbay.aspx


** The Dead Link Sweep Continues **
In the fall I began to once again clean out the dead links in the ELC database. Many sections have been covered so far, with hundreds of URLs being removed or, when possible, corrected. The latest section to get this treatment is the large Electronic Texts section, with work there likely to wrap up in mid-January.


** 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 10 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)

Rule-consequentialism (Brad Hooker)
Francis Bacon (Juergen Klein)
Legal Obligation and Authority (Leslie Green)
Feminist Approaches to the Intersection of Analytic and Continental Philosophy (Georgia Warnke)
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry (Charles Griswold)
Medieval Semiotics (Stephan Meier-Oeser)
Mental Causation (David Robb and John Heil)
Hume's Aesthetics (Ted Gracyk)
Simon of Faversham (John Longeway)
Phenomenology (David Woodruff Smith)


** Upcoming Events in Philosophy (January and 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:

Toleration and its Limits
http://www.political-theory.org/asplp.html
1/2/2004 - 1/3/2004

Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology
http://www.miami.edu/phi/gradconference/index.htm
1/8/2004 - 1/9/2004

Vagueness
http://www.dsc.unibo.it/~leonardi/altro/vaghezza.html
1/9/2004 - 1/10/2004

Mephistos 2004
http://publish.uwo.ca/~mfrappie/Mephistos/
1/30/2004 - 2/1/2004

Justice: In Search of a Balance
http://info.uibk.ac.at/sci-org/oegp/kong04.html
2/1/2004 - 2/4/2004

Reparations: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Some Philosophical Issues
http://www.queensu.ca/conferences/reparations/
2/6/2004 - 2/8/2004

Plato on Method and Plato's Methods
http://w3.arizona.edu/~phil/events/ancientphilo.htm
2/20/2004 - 2/22/2004

6th Annual Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/events_studentconf.html
2/20/2004 - 2/21/2004

Eighth Annual Brown Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/gradconference.html
2/20/2004 - 2/21/2004

Graduate Conference on Contemporary Theories of Knowledge
http://www.ph.vu.nl/onderzoek/graduateconference2004.html
2/25/2004 - 2/27/2004

2004 InterMountain West Student Philosophy Conference
http://www.hum.utah.edu/philosophy/news/conferences/uuphilgradconf.html
2/26/2004 - 2/28/2004

5th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
http://www.msu.edu/unit/phl/gradconference/
2/27/2004 - 2/28/2004

Compositionality, Concepts, and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Cognitive Science
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/thphil/compositionality/
2/28/2004 - 3/3/2004


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