Philosophy Courses, Syllabi, Teaching & Learning

I no longer link to individual syllabi, course home-pages, departmental curriculum pages, or lecture notes. There are now too many and I am not willing to track all those to come online in the future. I have removed the links of this kind that I already had.

• A Brief Guide to Writing Philosophy Papers. From Richard Field.
• Collections of syllabi and course materials by subject area
  • Aesthetics Teaching Materials. From Aesthetics Online.
  • Bioethics Syllabi. From the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
  • Career Handbook for Philosophy Majors. From the University of Florida Department of Philosophy.
  • Course Materials in Philosophy. From Andy Carpenter. The most systematic collection of online philosophy syllabi, hand-outs, assignments, lecture notes, and related course materials.
  • Engineering and Computing Ethics. From Joseph Herkert.
  • Ethics Resources for Teachers and Trainers. From the DePaul Institute for Business and Professional Ethics.
  • Feminist Philosophy. From the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP).
  • Guide to the Study of Philosophy. From Garth Kemerling.
  • International Society for Environmental Ethics Syllabus Project. Attempts to link to all courses on environmental philosophy and ethics.
  • Medical Ethics Syllabi. University of Buffalo.
  • Medical Humanities Syllabi. New York University.
  • PedagoNet. A collection of course materials in all fields. Jump directly to the philosophy section (which is currently empty).
  • Philosophy Syllabi. From the American Philosophical Association.
  • Philosophy and the Neurosciences. Collected by Pete Mandik.
  • Philosophy of History. From Nikolai S. Rozov. Syllabi in philosophy of history as well as social philosophy, philosophy of law, political philosophy, and world-systems analysis.
  • Philosophy of Religion Syllabi. From Michael Sudduth.
  • Radical Philosophy
  • Resources for Teaching Nietzsche Syllabi and study guides collected by Douglas Thomas.
  • Syllabi in Ethics. From Lawrence Hinman's Ethics Updates.
  • Syllabus Exchange Catalog. Short descriptions of bioethics syllabi (not the syllabi themselves) for sale from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature.
  • World Lecture Hall, Philosophy. On all philosophical topics.
  • Writing a Philosophy Essay. From Geoffrey Klempner.
• Courses Taught on the Web. From the American Philosophical Association.
• The Ethics OSCE: Standardized Patient Scenarios for Teaching and Evaluating Bioethics. By Peter A. Singer and Anja K. Robb. "OSCE" stands for "objective structured clinical examination".
• Good and Bad in Philosophy Essays. From Ronnie Hepburn. Hand-out for students.
• Guide for Writing Papers in Philosophy. Ellen Watson.
• A Guide to Philosophy in the Library of Congress Classification. "How to find Philosophical Works in the Library." From John R. Shook.
• Guide to the Study of Philosophy. From Garth Kemerling.
• A Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays. From Colin Allen.
• Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper. From James Pryor.
• How Does Philosophy Relate to My Career? From the philosophy department at Wilfrid Laurier University.
• How to Read A Philosophy Paper. From Jeff McLaughlin.
• How to Write an Essay in Bioethics. From Barry Brown.
• How To Write A Philosophy Paper. From Istvan Berkeley.
• Identifying the Argument of an Essay. From Frank Edler.
• Library of Congress Schedule for Philosophy. How the Library of Congress classification system organizes the field. From the Lamson Library at Plymouth State College.
• Library Research in Philosophy. Guide to print reference works. From Paul Fehrmann. Plus another guide for ethics.
• Logic Teaching Aids. Mostly on logic software.
• OhioLINK History of Philosophy Instructional Website. Not just course home-pages (which I've decided to omit), but course content well-integrated with search technology for Ohio library holdings.
• Paper writing strategies for introductory philosophy courses. From J. Hernandez Cruz.
• The Philosopher's Assistant: A Research Guide for Students. From W. Gordon Snow. Deliberately skimpy on the assumption that students are not ready for the sites and guides used by their professors.
• A Philosopher's Experience Teaching in The Virtual Classroom. From Ron Barnette.
• Philosophy Vade Mecum. "A Survival Guide for Philosophy Student." From Darren Brierton and Alexander Bird. Under construction.
• So You Want To Pass Your First Philosophy Course? From A.D. Irvine.
• Some Tips on Writing a Philosophy Paper. From Andrew Carpenter.
• Taking Notes on Philosophical Texts. From Peter Suber.
• Teaching Bioethics and Medical Humanities. From the Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care at the University of Buffalo.
• Teaching Philosophy. From Andrew Carpenter.
• Teaching Research Ethics. That is, teaching the ethics of scientific research to science students. A project of the Poynter Center.
• Tips for Understanding Philosophy. From David Hildebrand.
• Tips on Writing a Philosophy Paper. From Douglas Portmore.
• Undergraduate Philosophical Writing. From Martin Young.
• A Virtual Classroom: The Electronic Agora. From Ron Barnette.
• What Can You Do With A Philosophy Degree? From the Philosophy Department at Illinois State University.
• Why Major in Philosophy? From Michael Gilbert.
• Writing a Philosophical Essay. From Ronald de Sousa.
• Writing a Philosophical Essay. From William Myers.
• Writing a Philosophy Essay. From Joe Lau.
• Writing a Philosophy Paper. From Janette Schue.
• Writing Argumentative Essays. By Bill Daly.
• Writing Clear and Effective Philosophical Essays. From Glenn Rawson and David Hildebrand.
• Writing Guidelines. By Tom Bridges.
• Writing in Philosophy. A collection of hand-outs, references, and links from the philosophy faculty at the University of Toronto.
• Writing Philosophy. By Garth Kemerling.

Philosophy Etexts

• Access the Great Books. From the Access Foundation and Encyclopedia Britannica. Links to many online "great books", not limited to philosophy.
• Ancient and Medieval Texts in Philosophy and Theology. From The Labyrinth guide to medieval studies.
• Akamac E-Text Links. Very thorough on the philosophers it covers.
• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet. Not limited to philosophy.
• APA List of Electronic Texts
• The Aphil Library. Philosophical works in the public domain.
• Book Stacks Unlimited, Philosophy
• http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/Books On-Line. Not limited to philosophy, but a good philosophy collection appears near the top of this file. For convenience, jump to its title-search page.
• Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH). Not a collection of texts, but of thinking and services about texts.
• The Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Classic Texts in Ethics. From Lawrence Hinman.
• The Classics Archive. Greek and Latin texts in English translation. Searchable.
• Digital Text Projects. From the Columbia University Institute for Learning Technologies.
• Eclectic Artistry Philosophy Library
• Electronic Text Center. University of Virginia. Organized by language, not by field. Some philosophy among the literature.
• Electronic Texts in Philosophy. Formerly comprehensive, but not updated since 1994.
• Great Books. From Russ McNeil. Organized by period and author. Not limited to philosophy, but very thorough collection.
• Greek Philosophy Archive. From David Knox.
• Hanover College Philosophy Etext Links
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Medieval Philosophy (500 - 1500)
  • Early Modern European Philosophy (1500 - 1789)
  • Modern European Philosophy (1789 - present)
  • 19th Century American Philosophy
• Humanities Text Initiative. From the University of Michigan. Very little philosophy so far.
• InteLex "Past Masters" Catalog. Commercial editions of full texts of classical works of philosophy. Titles and demo.
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Text Collection. Contains many etexts not included elsewhere, prepared for this online encyclopedia.
• Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Searchable version of Norman Kemp Smith translation.
• Leeds Electronic Text Centre. A small but growing number of high-quality philosophical texts.
• Library of Bioethics and Medical Humanities Texts and Documents. From the Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care at the University of Buffalo.
• The Library of Classics of Philosophy. From Rauno Huttunen.
• Liverpool Guide to Philosophy Etexts
• The Master Works of Western Civilization. Organized chronologically.
• Minerva Text Archive. A systematic effort to collect online philosophy texts. Searchable but not browsable. Also available in German.
• Online Library of Philosophy. From Ron Bombardi.
• Online papers in philosophy
  • Archived Papers in Philosophy. From the Philosophy at Large site at the University of Liverpool.
  • Individuals with Online Papers in Philosophy. From David Chalmers. Organized by areas of interest. Also see his collection of Online Papers on Consciousness, organized by sub-topic within the topic of consciousness.
  • Noesis. "Philosophical Research On-Line." Structured searching of a database of online philosophy texts. The future of scholarly web searching, browsing, and organizing. From Anthony Beavers and his IALab. (Disclaimer:  I am a co-editor.)
  • Online Papers by NYU Philosophers
  • On-line Philosophy Papers Directory. From the Philosophy Department of the University of Hong Kong. It allows authors to submit their papers by filling out a web-based form. Organized by area of philosophy.
  • Papers in Contemporary Analytic Epistemology From Keith Korcz.
  • Sites With Original Philosophy. From Franz Kiekeben. Organized by author.
• Online Texts Collection. From the Internet Public Library. Organized by authors, by titles, and by Dewey Decimal numbers. Searchable. Jump to the philosophy section. So far, a well-organized shell with comparatively few texts.
• The Otis Index. Online book index, organized by author and title. Not limited to philosophy.
• Oxford Text Archive. Supports full-text searching. Not limited to philosophy. No section on philosophy.
• Perseus Project. Ancient Greek texts in Greek and English. Superb hypertext scholarly apparatus.
• Philosophers Page. Searchable by philosopher, links to full texts. This link is either dead or temperamental. I'm checking it out.
• The Philosophy Archives.
• Philosophy Classics. From Jim Macdonald.
• Philosophy Text Collection. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Philosophy Texts. Philosophy division of The English Server, Carnegie Mellon University.
• The Political Philosophy Reading Room. Classical etexts organized by doctrine. From Stephen Moore.
• Rescogitans Reading Room. Small collection so for, but growing. The site also sells philosophical etexts. Also available in Italian.
• Texts and Contexts. From Haakon Sorensen. Thorough collection of etexts (and related links) on major philosophers.
• Upstream. Electronic texts of books and articles with nothing in common but their heterodoxy.
• Valdosta Etext Archive
• The Value of Knowledge: A Miniature Library of Philosophy. From Andy Blunden. Excerpts from a large number of philosophy texts.
• Wesleyan Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive
• The Western Canon. Organized by period, author, and subject. For speed, jump directly to the page of philosophers.

Philosophy Bibliographies

• American Philosophical Association List of Philosophy Bibliographies.
• Analytic Bibliography and Bookstore. By Rodrigo Vanegas.
• Jean Baudrillard Annotated Bibliography. By Ben Attias. Annotations are extensive.
• Bibliographie des études relatives à Anthony Ashley Cooper, troisième Comte de Shaftesbury. From Laurent Jaffro.
• Annotated Bibliography of Books of Ethics. From W. Allen Ashby and Paul Ashby. Under construction, accepting users' email nominations.
• Annotated Bibliography on Teaching Research Ethics. From the Poynter Center.
• Annotated Bibliography on Wisdom. From Copthorne Macdonald (from his book, Toward Wisdom).
• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Selected Bibliography 1970-1996. By Thomas Metzinger and David Chalmers. Searchable. Password protected, only accessible by members to members of the ASSC.
• Basic Resources in Bioethics. By Mary Carrington Coutts. Selected online resources as well as a thorough bibliography.
• A Berdyaev Bibliography. By Steven Janos.
• Bibliografia Gramsciana. Very thorough collection of works about (not by) Gramsci. Too large (10,000+ entries) to display; searchable only.
• Bibliografia sulla Didattica della Filosofia. On teaching philosophy. By Fulvio C. Manara.
• Bibliographies. A well-organized collection of philosophical bibliographies, from Lorenzo Cuna. Also available in Italian.
• Bibliographies Published by the Philosophy Document Center.
• Bibliographies of Philosophers Writing on Film. By Ludvig Hertzberg.
• A Bibliography of Analytical Philosophy. By Luciano Floridi.
• Bibliography of Autopoiesis and Enaction. Based on the work of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. By Randall Whitaker.
• Bibliography of Belief Revision and Nonmonotonicity. By Raymundo Morado. Searchable only, not a list for perusing. Indiana University.
• Bibliography of Bioethics. Very large and well-organized. Searchable. From Genetics and Public Issues.
• Bibliography of Buddhism and Human Rights. By Damien Keown.
• Bibliography of Common Sense Psychology. By Alexander Maeder.
• Bibliography of Concepts of Self, Person, and Personal Identity. By Shaun Gallagher.
• Bibliography of Information Technology Ethics. By Bashir Jiwani.
• Bibliography of Panajotis Kondylis. From Bernd A. Laska.
• Bibliography of Materials Related to Synchronicity. By Patricia Barlow-Irick and Steven Hladkyj.
• A Bibliography of Metaethics. By James Lenman.
• Bibliography of Military Ethics. By J.H. Toner.
• Bibliography of Personalism. By Shaun Gallagher.
• Bibliography of Philosophical Counseling. Apparently by Kenneth Cust.
• Bibliography of the Writings of Clarence Irving Lewis. By John Shook.
• Bibliography on Incommensurability. From the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, University of Hanover.
• Bibliography on Polish Philosophy in Italy. By Francesco Coniglione.
• Bibliography of Truth. By Paul Saka.
• Bio-Bibliographical Directory to Writers on the Theory, History, and Culture of Science and the Humanities. From Hartmut Krech.
• Maurice Blanchot Bibliography. By Reginald Lilly.
• Buddhism and Medical Ethics: A Bibliographic Introduction. By James Hughes and Damien Keown.
• Bibliography of Some Major Works on Confucian Philosophy. By Bryan W. Van Norden.
• Bibliography of Void and Emptiness. By Albert Ribas.
• Bibliographies of Cassirer's Works. From the International Ernst Cassirer Society.
• Noël Carroll Bibliography. By Ludvig Hertzberg.
• Stanley Cavell on Film. By Ludvig Hertzberg.
• Cicero Bibliography. By Bob Cape and Chris Craig.
• Hélène Cixous: A Bibliography. By Eddie Yeghiayan.
• Cognitive Science and the Arts: A Collaborative Bibliography. By Cynthia Freeland.
• Collected Bibliography of the Philosophy of Chemistry. From HYLE, the journal of the philosophy of chemistry.
• Collective Multidisciplinary Bibliography of the Phenomenological Movement. From the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.
• A Comprehensive Anarchist Bibliography. By Dana Ward.
• Consciousness and the Brain: Annotated Bibliography. By Ralph Ellis and Natika Newton.
• Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography. By Dave Chalmers.
• Critical Theorists' Library. By Kenneth G. MacKendrick. Part of the larger site, The Forge.
• Critical Theory Resource. A collection of bibliographies on critical theorists from the University of California at Irvine.
• Donald Davidson Bibliography. By Volker Meurer.
• Manuel DeLanda Annotated Bibliography. By Tom Tyler.
• Jacques Derrida Bibliography. Apparently by Peter Krapp.
• Jacques Derrida Bibliography. By Eddie Yeghiayan.
• Detailed Bibliography of Nino Cocchiarella. By Raul Corazzon.
• Diagrammatic Reasoning Bibliography. By Michael Anderson.
• Euthanasia, Recommended Reading. By the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Scotland.
• Evolutionary Epistemology Bibliography. By Gary A. Cziko and Donald T. Campbell.
• Extended Bibliography of Roman Ingarden's Works. Apparently by Francesco Coniglione.
• Feminist Theory. By Kristin Switala. With subsections on aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, history of philosophy, and other philosophical topics.
• Foucault Bibliography. By Antonio Gonzales Fernandez.
• Heidegger Bibliography. By Antonio Gonzales Fernandez.
• Berys Gaut Bibliography. By Ludvig Hertzberg.
• GeoEthics, A Bibliography. By William S. Lynn.
• A Guide to Selected References on Hermeneutics. By Allen S. Lee.
• Heidegger Bibliography. By R. Daniel McIntosh.
• Heidegger Bibliography 1910-1976. From Christian Sommer.
• Human Rights Bibliographies. From the DIANA International Human Rights Database.
• Hume Bibliography. By Antonio Gonzales Fernandez. Hume's works, and Spanish secondary sources.
• Hypertext Bibliography of Complexity Measures. By Bruce Edmonds.
• International Philosophical Bibliography. From Institut Supérieur de Philosophie (Université Catholique de Louvain) and the Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte (Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven). Also available in French.
• International Society for Environmental Ethics Bibliography. Covers the last 20 years. Searchable.
• Bibliographie Panajotis Kondylis. By Bernd A. Laska.
• Levinas: English Bibliography. By Robert Bernasconi.
• Emmanuel Levinas: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources in English. By Anthony Beavers.
• Clarence Irving Lewis, A Bibliography. By John Shook.
• Niklas Luhman Bibliography. By Martin Rost.
• Bibliography of Hugh MacColl. By Michael Astroh and Johan W. Klüwer.
• Bibliografia Machiavelliana. By Rosalba Longo Cioffi.
• Alasdair MacIntyre Bibliography. By William Hughes.
• Jean-Luc Marion:  A Bibliography. By James K.A. Smith and William Van Otterloo.
• Mead Bibliography By Lloyd Gordon Ward and Robert Throop.
• Media Ethics Bibliography. From the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
• Medical Issues and the Person: A Bibliography of Philosophical Sources. By Shaun Gallagher.
• Addison Webster Moore, A Bibliography. By John Shook.
• Charles W. Morris, A Bibliography. By John Shook.
• Neurophilosophy Bibliography. By Pete Mandik.
• Nietzsche Bibliography. By J.F. Humphrey.
• NOEMA: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy. Searchable.
• Martha C. Nussbaum: A Selected Bibliography. By Eddie Yeghiayan.
• Michael Oakeshott Bibliography. From the Michael Oakeshott Association.
• Bibliography of Arthur Pap. By Alfons Keupink.
• Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Patrologia Analytica. "A Short Bibliography on Analytic Philosophy, with a list of the top 100 books in the field selected by members of the internet community." By Luciano Floridi.
• The Philosophical Debates. By Cheryl and Michael Patton. Introductory bibliography to five major major philosophical questions.
• Philosophical Writing: An Annotated Bibliography. By Will Buschert.
• Philosophy and AI: An Annotated Bibliography. By Brian J. Rosmaita and his grad students at Kent State University.
• Philosophy and Computing, A Bibliography. By Luciano Floridi.
• Philosophy Documentation Center Bibliographies. Descriptions and ordering information, but no online content.
• A Philosophy of Artificial Life Bibliography. By Brian Keeley.
• Philosophy of History Bibliographies and Reviews. By Nickolai Rozov.
• Philosophy of Psychiatry Bibliography. By Christian Perring.
• A Primary Bibiography of Lonergan Sources. By Father Terry J. Tekippe. Also see Tekippe's bibliography of secondary sources on Lonergan.
• John Rawls: A Selected Bibliography. By Eddie Yeghiayan.
• Max Scheler Bibliography, Secondary Literature. By Manfred Frings.
• Science Ethics Bibliography. By Vince Hammer.
• The Scottish Enlightenment Bibliography. By Ross Emmett.
• A Select Bibliography of the Historical Orientation of the Philosophy of Science. By Peter Barker and Xian Chen.
• A Selected Bibliography of Works on Philosophical Counseling. Anonymous.
• Self-Deception Bibliography. From the Consciousness in the Natural World Project, University of Stirling.
• The Senses:  A Philosophical Bibliography. By Fiona Macpherson.
• Antonio Rosmini Serbati. By Rosalba Longo Cioffi.
• A Short Webliography on Computer Ethics for Philosophers. By Luciano Floridi.
• SKEPTIC Annotated Bibliography. On paranormal research and its critics. Thorough, well-organized, and well-annotated.
• Murray Smith Bibliography. By Ludvig Hertzberg.
• Subject Bibliographies in Environmental Ethics. A collection of many online bibliographies on different topics in environmental ethics, compiled by Timothy Weiskel.
• Charles Taylor Bibliography. By William Hughes.
• Teaching Medical Ethics: Bibliography. By Georg Marckmann.
• Stephen Toulmin Bibliography. By Robert O'Hara and Patricia Dew.
• The Untimely Past. By Jeffrey Hearn. Large bibliography on philosophy of history and post-structualism. Many entries extensively annotated. Also links to related resources.
• The Variety of Historicisms. Bibliography assembled for a 1990 conference. Searchable only.
• Women's Studies: Philosophy. By Sara Brownmiller. The philosophy bibliography in a series of disciplinary bibilographies produced by the Association of College & Research Libraries, Women's Studies Section. Books only.