Philosophy 101        Inroduction to Philosophy   Group Writing Projects     Starting your research

One way to start researching your topic is to think of all the ways the topic may be listed. For example, our first topic of objective versus relative truth may be found under the categories of objectivism and relativism. But you may also find more if you use the variation absolutism and relativism, or universalism and relativism, or absolutism and subjectivism. Some search engines like Excite will give you a list of terms closely associated with the topic you have typed in the search box.Yahoo! is good for categories. Scroll down the front page and you'll see Arts and Humanities listed as a category. Click on Arts and Humanities and you'll get another menu which lists Humanities; click on that and you'll get a menu that includes Philosophy.Be sure to save or bookmark any sites or links so that you can return to them in order to examine and evaluate them more carefully later.

One good way to start is by using Hippias which is a philosophy search engine. For example, if you type the term 'relativism' into the search box, you'll get a list of 358 links -- all in philosophy in varying ways.


You may also wish to use the Philosophy Resources Page which is part of our philosophy web site here at MCC.

There is also a good Resources Page which is part of the Communications and Humanities Division web site which includes among other things links on how to evaluate information on the web, search engines, libraries, and periodicals.

Here are four of the best guides (sites that sort, categorize, and list other philosophy sites and links) for
philosophy research:

                       Episteme Links
                   Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
                   Philosophy in Cyberspace
                  Voice of the Shuttle - Philosophy Page



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Communication and Humanities Subject Resources Page

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