Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Philosophy

Philosophy

• General:
  • Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet (Univ. of Evansville) -- A "limited area search" engine, which restricts indexed items to only those concerning philosophy. A good place to start on a search on these areas.
  • Calls for Papers in Philosophy (Lorenzo Cuna, Italy)
  • Philosopher's Guide (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen) -- An impressive site, including information on Berkeley, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, and Rousseau. Capsule biographies and links to other Internet philosophy sites and E-texts.
  • 17th & 18th Century Women Philosophers (Peter Suber, Earlham College) -- Bibliographies and brief notes on Mary Astell, Catherine Macaulay, Judith Sargent Murray, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others. No annotations.
  • Vienna Web -- An off-the-wall philosophy site centered on Laurence Sterne.
  • Great Voyages: The History of Western Philosophy, 1492 to 1776 (Bill Uzgalis, Oregon State) -- "This web site is intended for anyone interested in the stars and marvels of the history of philosophy from the 16th through the 18th century." Timelines, brief discussions of philosophers (Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, Bayle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Chatelet-Laumont, Rousseau, Hobbes, Cavendish, Conway, Locke, Masham, Astell, Cockburne, Berkeley, Hume, Wollstonecraft, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant).
  • Philosophy Pages (Garth Kemerling) -- A good philosophy meta-page, with a timeline to point to many 18th-c. philosophers, including Boyle, Fermat, Pascal, Malebranche, Spinoza, Bayle, Locke, Shaftesbury, Toland, Berkeley, Vico, Mandeville, Hume, Hartley, La Mettrie, Montesquieu, Condillac, Voltaire, Rousseau, d'Alembert, d'Holbach, Burke, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Lessing, Kant, Schiller, Staël, Fichte, Gauss, Malthus, Smith, Schelegel, and Hegel. Short biographies, very select bibliographies (including mentions of standard editions), and selected Internet sites.
  • La Lettre Clandestine -- Newsletter on the eighteenth-century philosophes, in French.
  • Clandestine E-Texts (Gianluca Mori) -- Library of electronic philosophical texts by Voltaire, Fontenelle, and others.
  • Images of 17th- and 18th-century philosophers (Ron Bombardi, Middle Tennessee State Univ.) -- A few low-resolution portraits; part of Studia Spinoziana (below).
• Pierre Bayle:
  • The Pierre Bayle Home Page (Gianluca Mori, Italy) -- A good overview of Bayle's life and works. Includes primary and secondary bibliographies, a capsule biography, and a monochrome portrait (GIF). In English, French, and Italian.
  • Pierre Bayle Instituut (Netherlands) -- Information on the Institute, including a brief biography of Bayle and the members of the Institute, including their publications. In Dutch, with selected pages in English and French.
• Jeremy Bentham:
  • Jeremy's Labyrinth: A Bentham Hypertext (Texas) -- A "hyper-text made up out of portions of Bentham's work, together with lecture notes on Bentham."
• George Berkeley:
  • George Berkeley (1685-1753) (David R. Wilkins, Trinity College Dublin) -- Biography, bibliography, original essays, and links on Berkeley, as part of a history of mathematics archive. Very impressive.
• David Hume:
  • The Hume Archives (Jim Fieser, Univ. of Tennessee at Martin) -- A first-rate guide to Hume resources on the Internet, including electronic texts, reviews, early biographies, and links.
  • The Hume Society -- Information on the society, including calls for papers.
  • Ty's David Hume Homepage (D. Tycerium Lightner) -- Overview of Hume resources on the Web, along with links to in-print books by and about Hume at amazon.com. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
• Immanuel Kant:
  • Thinknet Guide To Philosophers -- Kant (Germany) --
  • Kant on the Web (Stephen Palmquist, Hong Kong) -- Electronic texts (in German and English), on-line criticism, links, lexical aids, and images. Very well done.
  • The KANT-L Discussion Group (Bucknell) -- On-line bulletin board for Kant studies, including archives and lists of subscribers.
• G. W. Leibniz:
  • Leibniz's Drôle de Pensée (Italy) -- Extensive hypertext critical edition, with translations, information on Leibniz, and a description of the MS.
• John Locke:
  • John Locke Bibliography Home Page (John C. Attig, Penn State) -- Impressive and extensive bibliography of secondary works on Locke, complementing The Locke Newsletter.
• Joseph de Maistre:
  • Joseph de Maistre Homepage (Richard LeBrun, St. Paul's College, Univ. of Manitoba) -- "A repository of electronic texts by and about the Counter-Enlightenment theorist and writer." Brief biography, bibliographies, and E-texts. Impressive.
• Thomas Reid:
  • The Reid Project (Aberdeen) -- Information on the Project and the journal, Reid Studies, on Thomas Reid.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau Association (Wabash) -- Brief biography, primary bibliography, portraits, music (RealAudio), and links.
• Baruch (or Benedict) Spinoza:
  • Studia Spinoziana (Ron Bombardi, MTSU) -- E-texts and links to other relevant Internet sites.
  • A Dedication to Spinoza's Insights (Joseph B. Yesselman) -- A curious meditation on Spinoza's works, with commentaries and some texts.
• Voltaire:
  • Voltaire Foundation (Oxford) -- Extensive information on the Foundation and its publications and events.
  • The Voltaire Society of America (Chicago) -- Information on the Society.
  • The Voltaire Society of America (Chicago) -- Information on the Society, with some links.
  • Voltaire: Une bibliographie (Stéphane Pujol) -- Extensive unannotated secondary bibliography.
  • Voltaire's Page (F. DeVenuto, Geocities) -- Links and E-texts. Unscholarly. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.