Concept
PhilPapers
Overview
PhilPapers is an interactive academic database of journal articles in philosophy. It is maintained by the Centre for Digital Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, and as of 2022, it has "394,867 registered users, including the majority of professional philosophers and graduate students". The general editors are its founders, David Bourget and David Chalmers.
PhilPapers receives financial support from other organizations, including a substantial grant in early 2009 from the Joint Information Systems Committee in the United Kingdom. The archive is praised for its comprehensiveness and organization, and for its regular updates. In addition to archiving papers, the editors run and publish the most extensive ongoing survey of academic philosophers.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
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There is much more care and modesty, logic and inventiveness, in a word, more philosophical method in the work of the special sciences than in the so-called "philosophy," and every one will agree with the temperate words of Bagehot[2] on the present system builders: "Unproved abstract principles without number have been eagerly caught up by sanguine men, and then carefully spun out into books and theories, which…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
Close in meaning to PhilPapers; the term itself is not named.
So, for example, instead of having to visit the library, researchers are able to explore descriptions of holdings in their offices. Furthermore, if their own institutions' holdings prove insufficient, scholars can access more than 200 major American library catalogues over Internet, including the universities of California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Direct access to the bibliographic databases offers…
Library of Congress, Workshop on Electronic Texts
Close in meaning to PhilPapers; the term itself is not named.
Speculative systems, have, in all ages of the world, been adopted for reasons too frivolous to have determined the judgment of any man of common sense, in a matter of the smallest pecuniary interest. Gross sophistry has scarce ever had any influence upon the opinions of mankind, except in matters of philosophy and speculation; and in these it has frequently had the greatest. The patrons of each system of natural and…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to PhilPapers; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed PhilPapers
- Peter Winch
- Moritz Schlick
- Pythagoras
- David Chalmers
- Simon Critchley
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- Richard Boyd
- Rudolf Carnap
- Geoffrey Warnock
- Jerrold Levinson
Related ideas
- WorldCat
- Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy of religion
- Political philosophy
- David Chalmers
- Philosophy Documentation Center
- United Kingdom
- Philosophy of science
- Logic
- Social philosophy
- Philosophy of language
- History of philosophy
- Epistemology
- Ethics
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.