Here are three pages maintained by a professor at NYU that should be very helpful to students new to philosophy:

• Philosophical Terms and Methods
  
• Guidelines on Reading Philosophy
  
• Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper
  

Philosophical Dictionary - Brief explanations of many philosophical terms and concepts.

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Brief explanations of philosophical terms and concepts related to the mind.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Moderate-length articles, written by professionals, introducing assorted philosophical views, issues, and concepts. Not all of the planned entries have been completed yet, but there's still a lot here that's useful. Some of the relevant entries include:

Personal Identity:

• personal identity
  
• personal identity and ethics
  
• identity through time in general
  

The Self:

• unity of consciousness
  
• self-knowledge
  
• phenomenology and self-consciousness
  
• biological notion of the self
  
• feminist perspectives on the self
  

Free Will:

• free will
  
• determinism
  
• compatibilism
  
• arguments for incompatibilism
  
• incompatibilist views of free will
  
• autonomy
  

Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website - Links to a large number of important historical and contemporary writings on a wide variety of issues related to determinism and freedom.

Flickers of Freedom - An on-line discussion board / weblog (mostly) about issues relating to free will and agency, with contributions from a number of important contemporary philosophers.

In case you're curious, here are the home pages of (or other pages about) the authors we read:

• Miri Albahari
• Stephen Braude
• Roderick Chisholm
• Tim Crane
• Barry Dainton
• Daniel Dennett
• Harry Frankfurt
• Robert Kane
• Christine Korsgaard
• David Lewis
• Thomas Nagel
• Kai Nielsen
• Robert Nozick

• Timothy O'Connor
• Derek Parfit
• John Perry
• Eleanor Rosch
• Marya Schechtman
• Galen Strawson
• Evan Thompson
• Peter van Inwagen
• Francisco Varela
• Daniel Wegner
• Bernard Williams
• Clifford Williams
• Susan Wolf

Please e-mail clearfms[at]whitman[dot]edu if you find any broken links
or have suggestions for links to add. Thanks!

this page last updated August 28, 2013