Resources

February 2024 philosophy major Alumni panel

April 2021 philosophy major Alumni panel

 

GENERAL

• Philosophy: A Guide for Undergraduates
  American Philosophical Association
  http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/texts/index.html
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  http://lib2.skidmore.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.rep.routledge.com/
  (A good general reference on all figures, periods and topics in philosophy)
• Stanford Encyclopedia for Philosophy
  http://plato.stanford.edu/
  (Free peer-reviewed, and continually updated encyclopedia articles on philosophical topics and figures.  A great resource!)
• Philosopher's Indexhttp://lib2.skidmore.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=phl
  (The standard reference index for books and articles in philosophy)
• Comprehensive Philosophy Page
  http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm
  (a page of links to more information on figures, preriods and topics)
• PHILWEB 
  http://www.phillwebb.net/
  (Historically and topically arranged links pages to primary and secondary philosophical sources)
• Erraticimpact:  The Philosophy Research Base
  http://www.erraticimpact.com/
• The Philosophers' Magazine
  http://www.philosophersnet.com/
• Generation Online 
  http://www.generation-online.org/other/reference.htm
  (A research archive that collects and produces material relating to the development of critical approaches to philosophy and social political thought)

• Perseus Digital Library

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

Graduate School Information

• Applying to Graduate School in Philosophy
  http://www.csun.edu/
  (A nice page of advice put together by the Cal State Northridge Philosophy Department)
• Applying to Graduate School
  http://www.lclark.edu/~fritzman/grad.html
  (Another nice page put together by J. M. Fritzman at Lewis & Clark)
• Graduate Record Exam(GRE)
  http://www.gre.org/
  (The test that you should prepare for and take if you want to get in)

Writing Philosophy Papers

• AskOxford.com:
  http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting
  (A Guide to better writing)
• Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper

  http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/guidelines/reading.html 
  (Good advice from Jim Pryor at NYU)

Philosophical Societies and Associations

• American Philosophical Association
  http://www.apa.org/
• Society for Social and Political Philosophy
  http://socialpolitical.wordpress.com/
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
  http://www.american-philosophy.org/
  
• Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  http://www.spep.org/

Undergraduate Philosophy Journals

• Logos: The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy at Cornell
  http://www.rso.cornell.edu/logos/
• Comprehensive List of Undergrad Journals
  http://www.cur.org/resources/students/undergraduate_journals/