Philosophy
121 sites
https://plato-dialogues.org/
Bernard Suzanne's bilingual French-English scholarly site offers a new interpretation of Plato and his dialogues, covering the full range of Platonic works from the Apology to the Laws. The site organizes the dialogues into tetralogies and provides deep philosophical analysis, making it a serious resource for students and enthusiasts of ancient Greek thought.
https://aquinasonline.com/ontology
A comprehensive reference site dedicated to Thomistic philosophy, covering logic, ontology, natural philosophy, epistemology, and the theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas in depth. Visitors will find structured overviews of Scholastic concepts from syllogisms and universals to the soul and free will, making it a valuable resource for students and enthusiasts of medieval Catholic philosophy.
https://batesca.tripod.com/aristotle.html
A focused academic page dedicated to Aristotle's political philosophy, covering works like 'The Politics' and the Nicomachean Ethics alongside theorists such as Leo Strauss. Visitors interested in classical political theory and social philosophy will find a curated resource on Aristotelian thought and its intellectual legacy.
https://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith
Judith Donath is a researcher and author at MIT whose work explores how communication technologies reshape identity, trust, and social behavior online. Her page highlights her book 'The Social Machine' (MIT Press, 2014) and ongoing research into honesty, deception, and the ethics of interface design.
http://givinggladly.com/
Julia Wise's blog explores effective altruism, charitable giving, and the ethics of balancing personal life with pursuing global impact. Posts range from practical giving advice and GiveWell recommendations to thoughtful reflections on how to live a values-driven life without burning out.
http://ws5.com/nihilism
Compact Library Publishers presents an extended essay exploring nihilism, life after death, humanism, and modern philosophy, drawn from their book 'Something Out of Nothing.' The site challenges readers to examine whether disbelief in an afterlife makes one a nihilist, weaving together arguments about Nietzsche, rationalism, and the search for meaning in a world without transcendence.
http://balthasar-gracian.virtusens.de/
A German-language resource dedicated to Balthasar Gracián, the 17th-century Spanish Jesuit philosopher known for his practical philosophy and art of worldly wisdom. The site connects Gracián to fellow classical thinkers including Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Montaigne, serving as a hub for serious readers of European philosophical literature.
http://peccatte.karefil.com/
Patrick Peccatte's French-language site explores the intersection of philosophy, computer science, and mathematics, with a particular focus on the demarcation between science and pseudoscience, the philosophy of mind, and quasi-empiricism in mathematics. Home to the full PDF text of his 1996 book 'La consistance rationnelle' and extensive commentary on the Sokal affair and thinkers like Wittgenstein, Putnam, and Searle.
http://oil21.org/
A critical analysis project examining intellectual property law, copyright, patents, and trademarks through a skeptical lens, inspired by Mark Getty's provocative quote framing IP as the 'oil of the 21st century.' The site explores conflicts around digital rights management, the war on piracy, and corporate control of information with philosophical depth and sharp wit.
https://niplav.site/
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.