HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
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bullet Spain:
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bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
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bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Reader

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

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Semiotics

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

MORALITY
(ETHICS / MORAL PHILOSOPHY / VALUE THEORY)


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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • Annual Conference, British Society for Ethical Theory, University of Reading, July 13-15

  • Values in an Age of Multiculturalism, 36th Conference on Value Inquiry, Centre for Practical Ethics, York University, Canada, April 17-20
  • Ethics in Everyday Life, Salzburg, Austria, March 17-19

2008:

  • Moral Psychology and Free Will, Fifth Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality, Universidad de les Illes Balears, Spain, December 18-20
  • Third International Applied Ethics Conference, Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy (CAEP), Hokkaido University, November 21-23
  • On the Ethical and Philosophical Relevance of Neuroscience, Neuroscience in Context: Critical Perspectives,
    Neuroethics, and Anthropology, University of Bonn, October 4
  • Perspectives of Deontology in Ethics, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, September 22-26
  • Cognitive Disability: a Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook, Manhattan Campus, September 18-20

  • Fifth Annual Metaethics Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 12-14

  • Tenth Conference, International Society for Utilitarian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, September 11-14

  • Moral Theory and Practicality, Department of Philosophy, Lund University, September 11-12

  • The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Bioethics in the 21st Century, 9th World Congress of Bioethics, International Association of Bioethics, Rijeka, Croatia, September 5-8

  • Life-Science, Ethics and Society, Annual Conference, Societas Ethica, Lammi (Finland), August 20-24

  • Annual Conference, British Society for Ethical Theory, University of Edinburgh, July 14-16

  • Questioning Cosmopolitanism, Second Biennial Conference, International Global Ethics Association, June 26-28

  • Virtue and Vice: Moral and Intellectual, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton, June 26-27, 2008

  • Truth and Faith in Ethics, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, June 24-27

  • Ethics, Technology and Identity, Delft University of Technology, June 18–20
  • Metaethics, Etc., Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, June 18-20
  • The Good Life in a Technological Age, Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science, University of Twente, June 12-14
  • Evolution and the Metaphysical Conditions of Ethics, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, June 6-7
  • Value in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, June 4
  • Ethics without Principles: the Diversity of Contexts of Moral Particularisms, University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, May 10
  • Sexual Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, May 9
  • Options and Issues in Applied Ethics, Eastern Regional Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers, Niagara University, April 18-19

  • The Cardinal Virtues, Viterbo University, March 27-29

  • Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: How Do They Relate?, Blaise Pascal Instituut, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, March 19-20

2007:

  • Agency, Character and Virtue: a One-Day Workshop on Moral Psychology, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, November 30
  • Applied Ethics, Second International Conference, Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy (CAEP), Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, November 22-25
  • Ethics and National Security, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, October 25-27
  • Rethinking the Ethics of Armed (and Unarmed) Intervention, Annual Conference, Ethics Society of South Africa, St. Augustine College, Johannesburg, September 24-25

  • Moralities at the Turn of Centuries and Millenniums, Institute of Philosophy and Ethics, Presov University, Slovakia, September 18-20

  • Animal Abuse and Human Violence, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, University of Oxford, September 18

  • Fourth Annual Metaethics Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 7-9

  • Health and Well-Being in a Divided World: Ethical Challenges for Universities, Third International Conference on Teaching Applied and Professional Ethics in Higher Education, Kingston University, September 4-6

  • Moral Cognition and Meta-Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Sydney, August 31-September 2

  • Philosophical Approaches to Ethics: Methods and Foundations, Societas Ethica, Leysin (Switzerland), August 22-26

  • Annual Conference, British Society for Ethical Theory, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, July 9-11

  • Enhancing Responsibility, 14th Annual Conference, Australasian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, RMIT University, Melbourne, June 27-29

  • Utilitarianism: an Ethics of Experience?, Dipartimento di Studi Filosofici ed Epistemologici, University of Rome 'La Sapienza,' June 14-16

  • Inaugural Conference, Ethics Centre, Open University, May 23

  • Ethics in Epistemology, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, May 29

  • Reason and Values, Department of Philosophy, University of York, May 19

  • Public Health Ethics, Birmingham University, May 16-18

  • Meta-Ethics Workshop, Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, May 5

  • Options and Issues in Christian Ethics, Eastern Regional Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers, Department of Humanities, Columbia International University, Columbia, South Carolina, April 20-21

  • Understanding Other Minds and Moral Agency, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, April 19-21

  • The Cardinal Virtues, Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin, April 13-14

  • The History of Ethics, Departments of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, April  11

  • Bringing Human / Animal Studies into Academia: Issues and Moral Dilemmas, 4th Annual Animal Liberation Affairs Conference, University of Maine, Orono, April 7

  • Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Property: the Ethics of Cultural and Environmental Sovereignty and Stewardship, Information Ethics Roundtable 2007, University of Arizona, March 23-25

  • Developing Character: Moral and Intellectual Virtues, Midwest Regional Meeting, Society of Christian Philosophers, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Dubuque, March 22-24

  • Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, March 21-23

  • Emotions, Ethics, and Adaptation, University of Manchester, March 14

  • Applied Ethics: Research and Education in the Global and Cultural Contexts, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, February 9 and February 14

  • Well-Being, Liberty and Practical Reason, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, January 28

2006:

  • Partiality and Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, December 1-2

  • Global Ethics and Global Justice, Center for Ethics and Value Inquiry, Ghent University, Belgium, November 24-25

  • Legitimating Cultures, Cultures of Legitimacy, Bucharest University, November 23-25

  • Metaethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, November 18

  • New Perspectives on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco, November 10

  • Religion, Science and Public Concern: Discourses on Ethics, Ecology, and Genomics, University of Leiden, Netherlands, October 26-27

  • Double standards: Towards an Integration of Evolutionary and Neurological Perspectives on Human Morality, Conference on the Moral Brain, Ghent University, Belgium, October 20-21

  • Axiología y Globalización: la Filosofía Frente a los Retos del Mundo Actual, XIII Jornadas Filosóficas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, México, 19-20 de Octubre

  • Irresponsibility, Division of English, National University of Singapore, September 28-30

  • Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice, Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University, August 24-28

  • Problems and Prospects of Ethical Naturalism, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, August 11-12

  • Values and Justice in the Global Era, 18th International Conference, International Society for Greek Philosophy, Greek Philosophical Society, International Society for Greek Philosophy and Culture, and Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Kavala, Greece, July 20-27

  • Ethics and Demandingness, Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, July 14-16

  • Annual Conference, British Society for Ethical Theory, Department of Philosophy, University of Southampton, July 10-12

  • Moral Contextualism, Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, July 4-5

  • Altruism and Moral Psychology, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, June 17-18
  • Ethical Aspects of Risk, Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, June 14-16

  • Reason and Values, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, June 13

  • 13th Annual Conference, Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE), University of New South Wales, June 12-14

  • Choose a Life, Choose Your Life, Choose Life?  Bioethical Issues at the Beginning, Middle and End of Life, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, June 2

  • Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, May 26-28

  • Making Ethics Visible, 2nd Midwest Environmental Ethics Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, May 6

  • Psychiatry and the Moral Emotions, Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Toronto, May 20-21

  • What is Global Ethics and How to Research it?, Center for Ethics and Value Inquiry (CEVI), Ghent University, Belgium, April 27-29

  • Action, Ethics, and Responsibility, 9th Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, Departments of Philosophy at the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID and Washington State University, Pullman, WA, March 31-April 2

  • Designing Human Life, Health Care Ethics Forum, Imperial College, University of London, March 30
  • Moral Theory and Health Care Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis, National University of Ireland, Galway, March 8-10
  • The Demandingness of Morality, AHRC Scottish Ethics Network, University of Stirling, March 3

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JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

  • Annals of Bioethics: a Forum of Foundational, Clinical and Emerging Topics.  Ed. Mark J. Cherry and Ana Iltis.  

  • Rodopi: Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS)

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
    • Moral Philosophy:
      • Adams, Marilyn McCord, and Robert Merrihew Adams, eds.  The Problem of Evil.  Oxford: OUP, 1990.
      • Boniolo, Giovanni, and Gabriele De Anna, eds.  Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
      • Chappell, Timothy, ed.  Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.
      • Cooper, David, ed.  Ethics: the Classic Readings
      • Fehige, C., and G. Meggle, eds.  Towards Moral Thinking.  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1995.

      • Gensler, Harry J., ed.  Ethics: Contemporary Readings.  London: Routledge, 2004.
      • Goldberg, David Theo, ed.  Ethical Theory and Society: Historical Texts and Contemporary Readings.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1989.
      • Gowan, Christopher, ed.  Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings
      • Johnson, Oliver, and Andrew Reath, eds.  Ethics: Selections from Classical and Contemporary Writers.  9th Ed.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2003.
      • Morgan, Michael, ed.  Classics of Moral and Political Theory
      • Pojman, Louis, ed.  Moral Philosophy: a Reader.  2nd ed.  Indianapolis: