Resources for Philosophy Students

Resources for Students of:

    Ethics

• EthicsWeb.ca (various topics in applied ethics — bioethics, business ethics, etc.)
• Ethics Updates
• Business Ethics Highlights (a news & commentary aggregator for stories about ethics in commerce)
• Concise Encyclopedia of Business Ethics

    Epistemology

• The Epistemology Page (Prof. Keith DeRose, Yale University)

    Metaphysics

    Logic & Critical Thinking (a.k.a. informal logic)

• The Logic Machine at Texas A&M University
• Classical Logic, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Informal Logic, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Aesthetics

• Aesthetic Judgment, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Aesthetics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Ancient Philosophy

• Aristotle — a. General Introduction, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Aristotle — b. Motion and its Place in Nature, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Aristotle — c. Metaphysics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Aristotle — d. Ethics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Aristotle — e. Poetics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Plato — a. General Overview, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Plato — b. Political Philosophy, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Sophists, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Last Days of Socrates

General Help:

Essay Writing:

• Student’s Guide to Writing Critical Essays in Business Ethics (and beyond)

• Tips on Writing a Philosophy Paper (Prof. D. Portmore, College of Charleston)

• How to Write a Philosophy Paper (Prof. P. Horban, Simon Fraser University)

• Dr. Grammar

• How to do a critical summary (Prof. Ronald de Sousa, U of Toronto)

Academic Integrity (Avoiding Plagiarism)

• Are “Term Paper Assistance” sites really a deal?

Other Resources:

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

EpistemeLinks.com

Ethics books from The EthicsWeb Bookstore

Glossary: The Wealth of Nations (a free online glossary for Adam Smith’s 1776 masterpiece)

Canadian Philosophy Departments

Texts from Early Modern Philosophy (includes Berkeley, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, and Spinoza)

Why study philosophy? (this link leads to the results of a Google search on that question.)

For Researchers
Business Ethics Journal Review