About PhilPapers |
Our mission
PhilPapers' purpose is to facilitate the exchange and development of philosophical research through the Internet. Our service gathers and organizes philosophical research on the Internet, and provides tools for philosophers to access, organize, and discuss this research.
Who we are
General editors
David Bourget (University of London)
David Chalmers (Australian National University, New York University)
Developers
David Bourget (University of London)
Wolfgang Schwarz (Cologne, ANU)
Zbigniew Lukasiak (University of London)
Advisory board
Tim Crane (Cambridge)
Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire, Oxford)
Stevan Harnad (Southampton)
Susanna Siegel (Harvard)
Barry Smith (London)
Ed Zalta (Stanford)
A brief history
The site and the technology behind it were developed over the course of several years starting in 2006—first as part of MindPapers, then as an independent project. The software architecture and programming is mainly Bourget's work, while the category structure is mainly Chalmers'.
Significant parts of PhilPapers also come from Online Papers in Philosophy, a project developed by Wolfgang Schwarz which has been integrated into PhilPapers. The personal page tracking system, in particular, was taken from Schwarz' OPP. We are very grateful to Schwarz for his work on integrating his software into PhilPapers.
Many links to historical e-texts were graciously donated by Thomas Stone of EpistemeLinks.
Sponsors
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Institute of Philosophy
School of Advanced Studies, University of London. |
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Joint Information Systems Committee (Information Environment Programme).
JISC supports UK further & higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of Information and Communications Technology in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. JISC receives funding from all the UK further and higher education funding councils. |
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Centre for Consciousness
Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. |
PhilPapers is also endorsed by IACAP.
