Rationalism & Empiricism
Course-Related Links Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College

Since 1996 I've made link pages like this one for each of my courses. In the meantime, the size of the web and the power of search engines have both leaped forward. The growth of the web has made representative or comprehensive link pages more difficult to produce, and the improvement of search engines has made them less necessary. Link pages can still be very useful, but to make them more useful than the best search engines takes more work than they are usually worth. So I won't be updating this link page (from the previous iteration of the course) but I leave it online in case it has any remaining utility. When I know of specific web pages helpful for a class discussion, then I'll mail out the URLs to the class email list during the semester (and I encourage you to do the same). For general online research on the many topics of the course, I recommend Google. —Peter.

Our Six Philosophers

Descartes

• Descartes as a mathematician. From W.W. Rouse Ball's History of Mathematics.
• The Descartes Project. From Brian Baigrie, André Gombay and Calvin Normore.
• Discourse on Method. Scanned by librarians, but they didn't think to tell us which English translation they used.
• Discourse on Method. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Discourse on Method. In French, from the 1824 Paris edition. Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
• Discourse on Method. In French, from the 1824 Paris edition. (Different site and organization from version listed above.)
• The Meditations. A trilingual edition, using the Latin text of 1641, the Duc de Luynes French translation of 1647, and the John Veitch English translation of 1901.
• The Meditations. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• The Meditations. In French, apparently from the 1647 edition.

Spinoza

• Spinoza home page. From Ron Bombardi.
• SpinozaWeb. Another Spinoza home page, from Santiago Barona. Not as thorough as Bombardi's.
• Spinoza Time Line. From Bill Uzgalis. Also see Ron Bombardi's chronology.
• Spinoza's Insights. From Joseph Yesselman.
• Spinoza Glossary and Index. From Joseph Yesselman.
• The Spinoza-Freudenthal Project. The goal is to produce a large Spinoza bibliography. Also available in English. From the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn.
• On the Improvement of the Understanding. Elwes translation. Another copy. Another copy.
• The Ethics. Elwes translation. Prepared by Ron Bombardi.
• The Ethics. Elwes translation. Scanned and proofread by Ned Beach.
• The Ethics. Same edition as above, but with frames and hypertext indices for each definition, axiom, and proposition. Much more useful. So far, Part I only. Prepared by Santiago Barona.

Locke

• Brown University Hypertext Locke Project
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Using the 1690 edition.
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Handsome and easy to navigate.
• Two Treatises on Government. Using the 1764 edition.
• Second Treatise of Government. Using the 1690 edition.
• A Letter Concerning Toleration. Using the 1689 edition.
• A Letter Concerning Toleration. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay. Using the 1690 edition.

Leibniz

• The Leibniz Page. From Gregory Brown.
• Leibniz. From the Metaphysics Research Lab.
• Leibniz as a mathematician. From W.W. Rouse Ball's History of Mathematics.
• The Online Leibniz Dictionary. From Enrico Pasini and others. Still under construction.
• Glossary of Leibniz's Monadology. From Roger Jones.
• The Monadology. Robert Latta's 1898 English translation.
• The Monadology. Web version of previous edition, with hotlinked glossary added.
• The Monadology. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Based on George Montgomery's 1902 English translation.
• Drôle de pensée. Claims to be the first critical edition of any work produced directly for the web.

Berkeley

• The Analyst.
• A Treatise Concerning Principles of Human Knowledge. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Principles of Human Knowledge

Hume

• Hume home page. From D. Tycerium Lightner.
• Hume Archives. From Jim Fieser.
• Hume Time Line. From Bill Uzgalis.
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Using the 1779 edition. From James Fieser.
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Using the 1910 Harvard Classics edition.
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding From the 1910 Harvard Classics edition; organized by the Hume Archives.
• Essay on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul. Using the 1783 edition.
• My Own Life. Using the 1777 edition.
• The Natural History of Religion. Using the 1757 edition.
• Treatise of Human Nature, Book I. Using the 1739 edition. From James Fieser's Hume Archives.
• 18th century reviews and commentaries have been collected and put online by the Hume Archives.
• Hume Society
• Hume Bibliography . From Antonio Gonzales Fernandez.

Other Relevant Links

• 17th and 18th Century Philosophical Image Gallery. Collected by Ron Bombardi.
• British Religion and Philosophy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Chronology . From Glenn Everett and George Landow.
• Censored Books 1500-1799. Many are works of philosophy. From the Fileroom archive of censorship.
• Clandestine E-Texts From the Eighteenth Century. From Gianluca Mori.
• A Dictionary of Sensibility. Dictionary of the language of 18th century sensibility (terms such as "enthusiasm", "sublime", and "wit"). Illustrated with quotations. From R. F. Brissenden.
• Early Modern European Philosophy (1500 - 1789). Etexts from the Hanover College collection.
• Early Modern Philosophy. From Dennis Des Chene. Under construction but ambitious.
• Eighteenth Century Resources in Philosophy. From Jack Lynch.
• History of Ideas Online. An electronic course on concepts of space in the 16th and 17th centuries, taught by Lynn Holt and Steven Shelburne. Not all the course files are open to the public.
• Mathematicians of the 17th & 18th Centuries
• Mind and Body, From Descartes to William James. From Robert Wozniak.
• Philosophy Since the Enlightenment. From Roger Jones.
• Post-Renaissance Thought. Political philosophy links from St. Martin's Press.
• Selected Philosophers from the 16th Through the 18th Century. From Bill Uzgalis.
• 17th and 18th Century Philosophical Image Gallery. Collected by Ron Bombardi.
• World Wide Web Resources for Early Modern Studies, 1500-1700. From Perry Willett. Primarily covers English literature in the period.

For other philosophy links, see my Guide to Philosophy on the Internet.

See my policy on dead links.

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