Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology
All course materials, readings, etc. for an undergraduate MIT course taught in 2004.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Science, Magic and Religion
A collection of video lectures from a science, math, and religion course at the University of California, Los Angeles. The course investigates science and religion in the context of history. Examine Greek mysticism, reformation, Darwin,...
Philosophy Pages
Philosophy Pages: Kant, Synthetic a Priori Judgments
An overview of Kant's philosophical perspectives. Includes discussion of Kant as trying to move beyond traditional rational or empirical approaches to thought. Defines A Priori and A Posteriori judgments and more.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aristotle: Biology
Looks at the life of Aristotle and his work in the field of biology. His different theories are explained, and the ideas he got right as well as some he got wrong.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Principles of Natural Philosophy
This site from Fordham University is an exerpt from Newton's famous "Principia."
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Anaxagoras
Discusses the life of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, his ideas about the metaphysical, the physical, the cosmos, and human intelligence, and the impact he had on later intellectuals. He is especially remembered for having been the first to...
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Democritus
A look at the life of Democritus of Abdera. He helped to develop a theory of atomism, explained in detail here. Other significant ideas he had included his theory of perception, a theory of the soul and its relationship to living things,...
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Creationism
An entry from the Standard Encyclopedia of Philospohy that analyzes creationism from scientific, philosophical, and theological viewpoints and finds it lacking on all three measures.
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Maimonides
A highly detailed biography of the famous Jewish philosopher and religious thinker. The article provides a thorough analysis of his religious ideas.
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Qualia
Extensive discussion of "qualia," the sense-data that inform perception. Considers the different meanings of the term and relates them to epistemological questions about mental states, theories of representation, and introspection....
Other
Environmental History: Between Science and Philosophy
Gain a perspective on the origins of the contemporary environmental crisis, where an awareness of the environment came into being.
Stanford University
Temporal Logic/stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Discusses the temporal logic of Arthur Prior, a type of modal logic. After technical definitions, author addresses related philosophical issues. Also summarizes applications in natural language, computer science, and artificial...
Other
Strange Science/james Hutton
A brief description of James Hutton's philisophical stance and how he disputed the Neptunian philosophy and instead proposed the Plutonian theory.
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Scientific Discovery
Scientific discovery is the process or product of successful scientific inquiry. Objects of discovery can be things, events, processes, causes, and properties as well as theories and hypotheses and their features (their explanatory...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Aristotle of Stagira (384 322 Bc)
A short biography from ScienceWorld of Aristotle that includes a concise look at his writings and achievements, with related links interspersed throughout.
Other
Lund University Libraries: Directory of Open Access Journals
Open access journals are offered in all scholarly and scientific disciplines such as Biology and Life Sciences, History and Archaeology, and Physics and Astronomy. Site offers a search for new titles as well as archived journals....
Other
Color Matters
Students learn to understand color from a variety of perspectives: physiology, psychology, philosophy, and art.
Other
Stockholm University: Scientific Method and Research Ethics: Norms of Research
A set of resources on the norms of scientific research. Includes a short presentation on research ethics and the scientific method, a 110-page slideshow on research ethics, and two links to resources on ethical guidelines for science.
Other
Ancient Greek Philosophy: Democritus of Abdera
A discussion of the theories of Democritus (c. 460-370 BC). He is best known as an atomist, having developed an atomic theory. Also discusses the ideas of other philosophers who are believed to have influenced Democritus.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Omar Khayyam
This article will describe the life and accomplishments in math, philosophy, and science of Omar Khayyam.
Other
University of Cambridge: Tycho Brahe
The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University provides biographical information on Tycho Brahe, the most famous obervational astronomer of the sixteenth century.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: An Introduction to the Song Dynasty (960 1279)
The Song dynasty was the second great "medieval" period of China. Northern Song (while it lasted) and the Southern Song (from 1127 until 1279) achieved incredible feats of learning, science, art, and philosophy. International trade and...
Other
The Skeptic's Dictionary: Occam's Razor
This site offers an intuitive look at "Occam's Razor," the philosophical statement of the "principle of unnecessary plurality." Content focuses on the life and role of William Ockham; the history of this particular philosophy; as well as...
Robert H. Sarkissian
Island of Freedom: Rene Descartes
Good overview of the life and philosophy of Descartes. Notes his impressive achievements in geometry, physiology, and natural science in addition to his important works in philosophical method and metaphysics. Credits Descartes as the...