~ Early Web Links ~

EthicsWeb.ca, administered by Chris MacDonald, serves as a Canadian hub linking to ethics resources spanning business ethics, nursing ethics, bioethics, professional ethics, and stem cell research. A well-organized portal connecting visitors to Canadian and international ethics organizations, academic institutes, government bodies, and topical blogs.

Pilledtexts.com is a wide-ranging personal weblog covering philosophy, economics, technology, and military life, written by a Marine who thinks seriously about hyperstition, Tolstoy, fountain pens, and terminal scripting in equal measure. Posts range from dense philosophical essays to practical Hugo static-site tutorials, making it a genuinely eclectic intellectual journal with a distinctly indie-web sensibility.

Philosophers.co.uk is a reference guide covering the history of philosophy from ancient Greek and Roman thinkers through to contemporary philosophers, with individual pages dedicated to figures like Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Confucius. It traces how philosophical traditions emerged across both Eastern and Western civilizations, making it a useful starting point for anyone curious about the origins of human thought.

Voice of the Shuttle (VoS), maintained by the University of California Santa Barbara English Department, is a comprehensive academic web directory dedicated entirely to philosophy resources. It catalogs hundreds of links spanning individual philosophers from Anaxagoras to Derrida, philosophical fields, modern movements, journals, conferences, course syllabi, and professional associations.

Net artist and educator Olia Lialina presents a lecture-essay examining the role of Media Theory in art and technology universities, critiquing how corporate language replaces meaningful terms like 'computer,' 'interface,' and 'users' with sanitized substitutes. The piece is richly footnoted and draws on Flusser, Kittler, and other media theorists while weaving in Lialina's own research into 1990s web culture and new media literacy.

A dedicated scholarly resource exploring the life, times, and writings of Charles Sanders Peirce, the remarkable American philosopher, logician, and semiotician. The site includes hypertext editions of Peirce's writings and a community hub connecting researchers, mailing lists, and organizations devoted to his ideas.

Hosted by the Gustavus Adolphus College Philosophy Department, this page serves as a curated index of links to philosophy books and texts available on the internet. It covers an impressive breadth of Western and Eastern thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle to Nietzsche, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Confucius.

The Spinoza-Gesellschaft e.V. is a German academic society dedicated to promoting research and cultural engagement with the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, particularly within German-speaking communities. Visitors can find information about scholarly conferences, publications, a Spinoza bibliography, and upcoming events such as reading seminars focused on Spinoza's Ethics.

Roger Jones has built a comprehensive introduction to Western philosophy from the Enlightenment to postmodernism, covering major thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Foucault, and Wittgenstein with dedicated pages for each. Topics span rationalism, existentialism, analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and proofs of God's existence, making it a genuinely useful reference for students and curious readers alike.

Compiled by Vassar College professor Bryan W. Van Norden, this annotated bibliography covers essential English-language translations and secondary readings in Chinese philosophy, spanning Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism, and more. Each entry includes Van Norden's own critical commentary comparing authors and editions, making it an invaluable starting point for students and scholars approaching the field.