~ Early Web Links ~

Benjamin Ross Hoffman's personal blog applies rigorous rational criticism to philosophy, economics, politics, and ethics, with a notable series dissecting the Effective Altruism movement and its structural flaws. Posts range from Hegelian dialectics and macroeconomic theory to sharp critiques of GiveWell, OpenAI, and charitable institutions, making it a dense and intellectually ambitious read.

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.

A curated guide to philosophical resources on the internet, created in 1999 with a focus on bridging Russian-speaking researchers with online philosophy materials. The project compiles annotated reference lists, Russian philosophical links, and guides to help philosophers navigate the web, with an English-language section aimed at helping foreign researchers discover Russian philosophy resources.

A scholarly profile of Lady Anne Conway (1631-1679), the 17th-century English philosopher who navigated Cartesian philosophy, Lurianic Kabbalah, and Quakerism despite chronic illness and the barriers facing women intellectuals of her era. The page covers her life, intellectual correspondence with Henry More, and provides a curated bibliography of academic works about her philosophical contributions.

Josh Thompson's personal scratch pad digs into urban economics, zoning laws, land use policy, and walkable city design, drawing on works like Marie-Agnes and Alain Bertaud's 'Order Without Design' and Christopher Alexander's 'A Pattern Language'. The site blends thoughtful analysis of city planning failures with street-level illustrations of pedestrian path patterns, making dense policy topics surprisingly approachable.

A comprehensive archive dedicated to the work of Henry Flynt, an avant-garde philosopher, musician, and artist known for challenging the foundations of mathematics, science, and traditional culture. Visitors will find extensive philosophical essays, bibliographies, chronologies, artwork photos, and information about his music and concept art spanning decades of original thought.

Scrambling Mind is a thoughtful blog exploring the implications of artificial intelligence, superintelligence, and machine-made media through an introspective human lens. Posts tackle big-picture questions about technology and society, including the philosophical dimensions of AI's rise and its cultural consequences.

Principia Cybernetica Web is the online home of an international academic project that attempts to build a comprehensive philosophical world-view grounded in evolutionary cybernetics and systems theory. With over two thousand pages covering epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, memetics, the Global Brain concept, and collaborative knowledge networks, it stands as one of the most ambitious philosophy-meets-cybernetics resources on the old web.

Niplav's sprawling intellectual website covers forecasting, AI alignment, existential risk, mathematics, philosophy, and quantified self experiments in long-form essays that resist the blog format entirely. The site reads like a personal research compendium, with best-of lists, translations, transcriptions, media consumption logs, and original analysis across a wide range of rationalist and effective-altruism-adjacent topics.

Dialectics for Kids has been explaining the philosophical concept of dialectics, the study of change and contradiction, to young readers since 1999, with content organized by age group from preschoolers to adults. The site covers everything from basic change concepts to global warming and film analysis, featuring songs, essays, and classroom exercises to make dialectical thinking accessible and fun.