Philosophy Websites

A directory to philosophy web sites evaluated and selected by information science professionals at the Internet Public Library.

Selected links to philosophy resources (no longer maintained or updated)

Intute: Philosophy provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. (Site no longer maintained or updated.)

Integrates text resources with the best online resources, this study guide attempts to aid both academic and general interest in all philosophical genres and their related fields.

Provides detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.

Articles on a wide range of topics in philosophy maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.

This site puts the talents and knowledge of philosophers at the service of the general public. Send in a question that you think might be related to philosophy and philosophers will do their best to respond to it.

Helpful information for students of the Western philosophical tradition

Philosophical texts, brief biographies, introductions to philosophers, and articles on a number of philosophical topics

A comprehensive directory of online philosophical articles and books by academic philosophers

Designed to help first year philosophy students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo

Course web site; information on Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Locke, Berkeley, and Kant (see the "Handouts" section)

A site dedicated to promoting the thoughtful discussion of difficult moral issues

Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

Covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

Versions of some classics of early modern philosophy, and a few from the 19th century, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.

A collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

The American Philosophical Association was founded in 1900 to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline.

Facilitates access to websites of scholarly societies across the world.

The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy is a professional organization devoted to supporting philosophy inspired by continental European traditions. It strives to encourage work not only in the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and existentialism, but also in all those areas commonly associated with ‘continental philosophy,’ such as animal studies, critical theory, cultural studies, deconstruction, environmental philosophy, feminism, German idealism, hermeneutics, philosophy of the Americas, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, philosophy of race and queer theory.