From The Age, . Originally from Guardian.
If philosophy’s your subject, here are some sites to help the thought processes.
- The Argument Clinic: [http://www.univnorthco.edu/philosophy/clinic.html] — Submit an argument to the clinic and have it critiqued by staff at the University of Northern Colorado.
- The Atheism Web: Logic and Fallacies: [http://infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html] — An excellent introduction to contructing logical arguments, together with an intriguing list of common fallacies.
- Bjorn’s Guide to Philosophy: [http://knuten.liu.se/~bjoch509] — Although this site is no longer being maintained, it is still very useful as it includes summaries of the lives and thoughts of many philosophers.
- Blupete’s Philosophy Site: [http://blupete.com/Intro.htm] — Includes a good range of biographies with summaries of thinking: Descartes, Hegel, Kant, Plato, Popper, Sartre, Schopenhauer and many more.
- Episteme Links: [http://epistemelinks.com/index.asp] — A comprehensive ethics and philosophy site arranged into topic sections with substantial searching facilities.
- Ethics at RS—Web: [http://rsweb.org.uk/] — The ethics section of RS—Web contains links by ethical theory and issue, as well as a glossary of terms and links to online versions of major philosophical works.
- Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy: [http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/] — Another vast resource containing articles on philosophers, philosophical and ethical theories, terms, movements and so on.
- Philosophy Comix: [http://members.aol.com/lshauser/phlcomix.html] — If you want to know how a Garfield cartoon can convey conversational implicature, Peanuts false cause of Dennis the Menace Mill’s method of residues, start here. No explanations are given, but the cartoons make a good primary source for lessons.
