PhilPapers 英文哲学论文数据库

PhilPapers 英文哲学论文数据库 继MindPaper之后，Chalmers又做了一个哲学论文的数据库。以下摘自他 的博客。 PhilPapers:pleased to announce the launch ofPhilPapers,a virtual environment for philosophical research.David Bourgetand Ihave been working on this project for ayear or two now,with significant help fromWolfgang Schwarz.PhilPapers is an outgrowth of theMindPapersproject in the philosophy of mind,but it is much greater in scope and ambition.PhilPapers encompasses all areas of philosophy,and it has many features that MindPapers lacks.The core of PhilPapers is adatabase of close to 200,000 articles and books in philosophy.Around this database,the site has all sorts of tools for accessing the articles and books online wherever possible,for discussing them in discussion forums,for classifying them in relevant areas of philosophy,for searching and browsing in many different ways,for creating personal bibliographies and personal content alerts,and much more.The best way to get an idea of what PhilPapers can do is to go to thesiteand try it yourself(we've compiled abasicintroductionto some of the features).Even acasual browser can browse listings for new and old papers,search for papers in agiven area or by aspecific author,read the discussion forums,and so on.However,we encourage you tocreate auser account,which enables many more sophisticated features.If you do this,you'll have aprofile page from which you can set up personal research tools such as bibliographies,filters,and content alerts(via RSS or email).Your profile page will include alist of your own work(compiled via name matching),which you can edit where appropriate.With auser account,you can also submit new entries(giving publication information and/or alink,and optionally uploading apaper to our repository),edit and categorize existing entries,and contribute to discussion forums. At the moment,the PhilPapers database includes entries for 188,000 articles(typically via publication information and/or links,with full papers stored elsewhere).The database has been compiled mainly through autom atically harvesting many Internet sources.It includes entries for(i)124,000 journal articles harvested from the websites of more than 200 philosophical journals,(ii)33,000 books harvested from the Library of Congress database,(iii)18,000 books and articles from the MindPapers database,(iv)7000 papers harvested from more than 1000 personal websites,(v)5000 papers harvested from Internet archives,(vi)1300 historical e-texts from the Episteme Links database,and(vii)a few hundred user submissions.About 95%of the articles are available online(via links to journal sites,personal sites,archives,and so on),while about 17%of the books are available online(typically via aGoogle Books preview).The database itself is growing fast:for example,the addition of books has just started and is still in progress(so far we have only added books published after 1970).A key feature of PhilPapers is afine-grainedcategory systemfor philosophical areas,discussedearlieron this weblog.The system is an extension of the MindPapers category system,and now has about 3000 categories under five main clusters with 6-8 main areas each.Of course the category system is still very tentative and is subject to ongoing refinement.To date,there has been only very partial categorization of papers,through limited automatic and manual classification,and through inheriting categories from MindPapers.However,we have developed anumber of categorization tools(e.g.,a"categorize"link under each paper)that users can use to classify entries themselves.Our hope is that over time,in aWiki-like way,this will lead to every entry being categorized in 1-3 categories,with resulting dynamic bibliographies for all sorts of areas of philosophy.If you have relevant expertise,please contribute by categorizing papers～The various aspects of the category system are discussed in much more detail at theCategorization Project page,and feedback is welcome at theCategorization Project discussion forum.Thediscussion forumsare another key feature of PhilPapers.These are devoted to discussing the papers in PhilPapers,as well as to discussing other philosophical and professional issues.By clicking"Discuss"under apaper or book,you will be given the opportunity either to create adiscussion forum for that item,or to contribute to an ongoing discussion.Each such forum will be included in turn in encompassing forums for associated areas of philosophy,where these encompassing forums can also include other discussion threads,not associated with papers and books.There are also forums for general philosophical discussion,for discussion of professional issues,and for discussion of PhilPapers itself.These forums are something of agrand experiment,but we encourage users to use them,in the hope that these might becom ea central locus for discussion among philosophers.PhilPapers is especially intended for professional philosophers and graduate students,although anyone interested in the field is welcome to use it.Non-professionals are subject to some restrictions in contributing articles(contributions are possible,but they won't be included in the default"professional authors only"filter for listing entries),and in contributing to the discussion forums(for which they are subject to adaily posting limit).We hope that this arrangement strikes areasonable balance between keeping the site accessible to all,and maintaining ahigh quality that will maximize the value of the site to researchers in the field. PhilPapers has been through amonth or so of beta testing with alimited number of users,who have uncovered various bugs and other issues,but there are certainly many problems that remain.For now,the site remains in"beta"mode,and we encourage all users to report any bugs that they encounter,via the bug report link at the top of every page,or through the bug report forum.(So far we've mainly optimized the site for recent versions of Firefox and Explorer,and there may be problems with other browsers.)There are also numerous glitches in the database,especially for articles harvested from personal websites.In these cases,we encourage users who know the correct information to correct the entries themselves,using the"edit"link under each entry.We'll monitor edits,but we hope that the editing functionality will lead to aself-correcting system over time.(Users might start by correcting any errors in the listings for their own articles.)More generally,we encourage you to give feedback and suggestions in the forums dedicated to discussion of PhilPapers. Finally,I should say that this site is largely aproduct of the programming and design genius ofDavid Bourget,who had the idea for the project in the first place and who has done most of the hard work.He has done this in the middle of wri ting his Ph.D.thesis and having articles published inNous(the seminal"Consciousness is Underived Intentionality"),theJournal of Consciousness Studies,and theBlackwell Companion to Consciousness.(My own role has mainly been limited to designing the category system and to endless discussion.)A major role has also been played by Wolfgang Schwarz,who designed the system for harvesting papers from individuals'websites(currently available online as an RSS feed),and who has contributed some very useful Javascript features to the website.Tim Crane and Barry Smith of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of London have also been very supportive of the project.In afew months David will be moving to London for atwo-year post-doc that will be partially devoted to e-research projects such as PhilPapers.So we hope that PhilPapers has abright future ahead.