Philosophy Subjects
              and Topics
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 General Guides to Philosophy Subjects and Topics

   Dey Alexander's Philosophy Topics ( Section 1 of her site ) ( Monash Univ.)
     
( This is an excellent list of subjects and topics -- also includes specific philosophers )

   Peter Suber's Topics in Philosophy  ( Earlham College )
      ( This is also an excellent list of sites pertaining to philosophy topics and subjects )

   
Dennis Des Chene's Philosophy Subjects  ( Johns Hopkins Univ.)
     ( Excellent site for subjects; extensive listings )

  
Tom Stone's Philosophical Topics, Periods, and Traditions
      
( Excellent site; thorough, comprehensive, and well-organized )

   
Yossi Mamroud's Philosophical Topics   ( Tel-Aviv Univ. )


 Specific Subjects and Topics ***Under Construction***  )
   Aesthetics
   Analytic Philosophy
   Ancient Philosophy
   Critical Theory
   Deconstruction
   Epistemology
   Ethics
   Existentialism
           Dey Alexander's Links to Web Sites on Existentialism  Includes links to Albert
           
  Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers, Kierkegaard,etc.
           
   as well as links to other guides on existentialism. Two exceptionally good sites
             
on existentialism are Existentialism and Beyond (Christopher Scott Wyatt) and
             The Realm of Existentialism (Katharena Eiermann).

   Feminist Philosophies and Women Philosophers
         
Critiques of Feminism  Links to, bibliographies of, and articles about Camille
             Paglia, Daphne Patai, Christina Sommers, among others.
         
Dey Alexander's Guide to Feminism and Women Philosophers  (Philosophy
             
in Cyberspace) An extensive guide to feminist philosophies, studies, bibliographies,                 issues and societies.
         
Feminista! The Online Journal of Feminist Construction
         
Feminist Philosophy  J.Murrey Atkins Library, UNC(Charlotte)
         
Feminist Theory Website  (Kristin Switala)  Includes separate links to the folliwing
             categories: history of U.S. feminism, various fields within feminism, different ethnic
             and national feminisms, and individual feminists.
        
 French Feminism  An essay summarizing the philosophies of Helene Cixous, Luce
             Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva by Kellie K. Young.
         Historical Women of Philosophy, 600 BC -- 17th Century AD
         
Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
         
NOEMA: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy
         
Philosopher's Index
         
The Society for Women in Philosophy
         Women in Philosophy Gallery  Photographs of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir,
             
 Luce Irigaray, Susanne Langer, Mary Wollstonecraft (portrait), Simone Weil,
              
Margaret Fuller, and others.
        
Women's Studies Online Resources  (Margaret Duncombe) An extensive guide to
              various topics in Women's Studies including the following: women of color in the
              United States, lesbian links, international women's issues and organizations, journals,
             
Women's Studies programs, and others.

   Hermeneutics
         Education as the Normative Dimension of Philosophical Hermeneutics
              Essay by David Blacker (University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign)
         
Education and Philosophical Hermeneutics  essay by James M. Giarelli (Rutgers
              University); this essay is a response to David Blackers's essay above.
         
Feminist Hermeneutics  short essay by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
         
Gadamer Home Page  Web site in Japan maintained by Etsuro Makita; available
              only in Japanese and German.
         
Hans-Georg Gadamer  part of Bjorn's Guide to Philosophy
         
The Hans-Georg Gadamer Home Page  George T. Karnezis and Kris A. Murray
              
Includes articles on Gadamer and hermeneutics by Karnezis and Murray.
         Patrick A. Heelan's Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences
         
Hermeneutics: From Textual Explication to Computer Understanding?
              Scroll down and you'll see extensive links to the entire background of
              philosophical hermeneutics leading up to the discussion of artificial intelligence.
              Authored by Mallory, Hurwitz, and Duffy.
           
Marxian Hermeneutics and Heideggerian Social Theory  dissertation (abstract)
                  by Gerry Stahl
           
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Narrative Analysis essay by Steven I.Miller
                 (Loyola University) and Janette Hodge (Belmont Abbey College)
           Postmetaphysical Hermeneutics: When Practice Triumphs over Theory
              Article by Kurt Anders Richardson in the electronic journal Premise which
              discusses recent hermeneutic theory in a theological context.
   Logic
  
 Medieval Philosophy
   Metaphysics

   Mythology
          
Giacobbazi's Mythology Links: one of the better sites on the web for mythology;
               
includes sections on ancient myth ( links to Sumerian myth, the epic of Gilgamesh,
                  Sumero-Akkadian myth, Assyro-Babylonian mythology, Hittite-Hurrian mythology,
                  Egyptian mythology, Canaanite mythology, Hymn to Ishtar, Goddess Home Page,
                  Lilith Page, Mayan cosmology, the Bhadavad Gita, Chinese mythology, the Flood
                  myth, celtic myth, the story of MacDatho's Pig (Ulster Cycle), animal symbolism in
                  Celtic mythology, Irish myth concordance, Norse mythology home page, Norse myth-
                  ology, the Poetic Edda, Ertha the Germanic earth goddess, and Icelandic mythology
                  and sagas), on
classical myth (  links to the classics archive at MIT, the Perseus
                  Project, classical mythology by geography, the classical myth homepage, images of the
                  ancient stage, the Iliad, Hesiod and Homer, and Diotima: women and gender in the
                  ancient world), on
medieval myth, and other myth sites
   Phenomenology
   Postmodernism
   Social and Political Philosophy
   Theology and Philosophy of Religion


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