SOMMARIO: General History , Clandestine E-Texts, Eighteenth-Century Resources , Famous Dead Non-Theists , Idealism versus Materialism , Mathematicians , Religious and Moral Philosophy , 17th & 18th Century Women Philosophers  

 

HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY FROM 1492 TO 1776

Great Voyages : "If so great and considerable a part of the world as America is...was yet unknown to all the world besides for so many generations together; well may it be conceived, not only that some but many truths, yea and those of main concernment and importance, may yet be unknown."
--Thomas Godwin, 1642 --
This web site is intended for anyone interested in the stars and marvels of the history of philosophy from the 16th through the 18th century. This web site is also the Home Port for a class here at Oregon State University: Phl 302, Winter 1997.



CLANDESTINE E-TEXTS

Clandestine E-Texts from the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Gianluca Mori. This site is based at the University of Turin-Vercelli - Updated: March 1998.
Very interesting and useful site.
 


EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RESOURCES

Eighteenth-Century Resources These pages are the labor of love of Jack Lynch. Please send suggestions and corrections to Indirizzo e-mail protetto dal bots spam , deve abilitare Javascript per vederlo Last updated 7 January 2006.  

FAMOUS DEAD NON-THEISTS

A list of famous dead people who have rejected God and religion. The purposes of the list are to combat the pervasive myth that atheists are terrible, immoral people and to convince fence-sitters that it is OK to be an atheist.
 


IDEALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM

From the earliest Greek philosophy of which European philosophy is but a continuation, the philosopher has had to contend with the question: How is reality known? About this field, the chapter: "A Humanism Between Materialism And Idealism", from the book Undestandig conflicts and war, by R.J. Rummel (University of Hawai'i).  

MATHEMATICIANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians. The history of mathematics, by the School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin.
 

RELIGIOUS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE VICTORIAN ERA

Philosophy Overview. The Victorian Web. Literature, History and Culture at the Age of Victoria.Main Currents in Victorian Intellectual History -- Some Handy Oversimplifications . * Bentham and Coleridge: Seminal Minds * Timeline of English Philosophy and Religion * Empiricism * John Locke * John Locke's Neoclassical Program for Philosophy * Patriarchal Theory: Locke's refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha.


  17TH & 18TH CENTURY WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS

Notes on the Women Philosophers of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Histories. Anthologies. Particular Women Philosophers. A Bibliography.