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, Australian National University)
David Chalmers (Australian National University)

Developers

David Bourget (London, ANU)
Wolfgang Schwarz (ANU)
Richard Davis (ULCC)

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—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 and some Javascript components of PhilPapers, in particular, were taken from Schwarz' OPP. We are very grateful to Schwarz for these components and for his work on integrating them into PhilPapers.

Many links to historical e-texts were graciously donated by Thomas Stone of EpistemeLinks.

Sponsors

	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.
	Centre for Consciousness Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
	Institute of Philosophy School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

PhilPapers is also endorsed by IACAP.

Software

PhilPapers uses a large amount of third party software, most of it open source:

The Yahoo! User Interface Library
Prototype.js
Perl with Rose::DB::Object and HTML::Mason
MySQL (Community edition)
Apache with mod_fastcgi
The Tango and OpenWorld GNOME icon libraries
Debian GNU / Linux, the Universal Operating System
Vim, the editor.
Some PhilPapers collaborators who will remain unnamed have also been spied using Emacs