Last updated: July 9, 2002	Theoretical Foundations Philosophical Perspectives: Internet Resources
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Resources are arranged under these subheads:

• General Philosophy, Critical Realism & Personalism
• Social Constructionism, Constructivism, and "Postmodern Thought

   General Philosophy, Critical Realism & Personalism

Philosophy Pages [Garth Kemerling; Newberry College]

Prof. Kemerling has constructed a comprehensive guide to Western philosophy which is unparalleled in its depth and richness for undergraduate and university users.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [James Fieser; U Tenn at Martin]

• Index of keywords
  • Baktin Circle
  • Dewey, John/Pragmatism
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [Edwin N. Zalta, Ed., Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.] Mirror Site: Sydney, Australia. This "dynamic" encyclopedia has been under gradual but steady construction since 1995 by a broad group of contributors. While many articles in the planned final work have been assigned to experts, most of the work still remains to be done (as of 2/99).

WWW Virtual Library - Philosophy [Dept. of Philosophy, U Bristol & Institute for Learning and Research Technology.]

• Philosophy Internet Resource Guides - Listing

Wendy Olsen Homepage [Quantitative Development Economics; Grad School of Social Sciences & Hunanities; U of Bradford, UK]

• Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science and Humanities Lecture Notes
• PhD/MRes Module on the Contemporary Philosophy of the Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Reading list

Philosophical Internet Resources (Prof. Shaun Gallagher, Philosophy Dept., Canisius College)

• Resource Sources on the Concepts of Person and Self
• Research Bibliographies (from Introductory Philosophy course)
  • Cognitive Science/Philosophy of Mind
  • Psychopathology
  • Embodiment Theories
  • Developmental Theories
  • Social Construction Theories
  • Narrative and Postmodern Theories
  • Feminist Theories
• Personalism Bibliography
• Association for the Study of Persons

   Social Constructionism, Constructivism, and "Postmodern Thought"

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Carnegie-Mellon University, the English Server (English Department)

Collection of papers and links on the net to resources in cultural studies and critical theory. Cultural Studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices.

Ken Gergen's Homepage [Swarthmore College, PA] One of the seminal figures in social constructivist thought. Browsers can get a fine sense of his interests from his expanding recent manuscript collection posted on line and his course syllabi also offered for review:

• Reading Culture
• Self and Other
• Concepts of the Person
• Identity and Community
• Technology, Self, and Society
• Self Theory, Ideology, and Practice

Postmodern Culture [ejournal]
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, US

Tables of contents (1990-current); book reviews; syllabi and bibliographies; essays

Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
University of Colorado (Denver); School of Education

Collection of articles and links related to postmodern thought, focusing particularly on the issue of instructional design in education in a postmodern world.

The Taos Institute [Conference Center, Taos, NM]

The Taos Institute is a pueblo, or community, of scholars and practitioners working to explore, develop and extend the implications of social constructionism within a multitude of professional practices. The Institute is a non-profit organization whose founders, associates and members collaborate to design and promote creative, appreciative, and relational processes in families, communities and organizations around the world. [site blurb]

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
Alan Liu, Department of English
UC Santa Barbara

• Literary Theory
• Postmodernism (including Poststructuralism)
• Philosophy

Postmodern Therapies News/PMTN (Lois Shawver)

"This is the newsletter for the Postmodern Therapies (PMTH) listserv.  It will inform you of news relevant to our discussions and provide you with a growing body of summaries and full-text articles relevant to postmodern therapies.  Bookmark it and check it often.  New editions appear every few days." (site description) In collaboration with PMTH listserv participants, Lois Shawver has built an essential guide to the language and philosophical background to a range of postmodern therapeutic approaches. In the PMTH Toolbox, she has provided a dictionary/glossay of terms, short biographical descriptions, and a host of other resources. Shawver is acknowledged as one of the most adept and clear interpreters of Wittgenstein currently writing and brings similar clarity to other postmodern writers (Lyotard, Foucault, etc.).

• MFTC-L Dictionary for the Study of Michel Foucault [online]Lois Shawver has assembled a short set of definitions of specialized Foucaultian terms to assist an online discussion of his work on the MFTC-L listserv.

 

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