Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a free online encyclopedia of philosophy run and maintained by Stanford University. Open access to the Encyclopedia has been made possible, in part, with a financial contribution from the Rutgers University Libraries, one of the leading universities in Philosophy. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from over 65 academic institutions worldwide. Apart from its online status, the encyclopedia maintains the traditional academic approach, used in most encyclopedias and academic journals, achieving quality by means of:
- the use of specialist authors;
- selected by an editor or an editorial committee which is competent (though not necessarily a specialist) in the field covered by the encyclopedia; and
- the use of peer review.
The Encyclopedia was created in 1995 by Edward N. Zalta, with the explicit aim of providing a dynamic encyclopedia which was updated regularly, and so did not become dated in the manner of print encyclopedias. The charter for the encyclopedia allows for rival articles on a single topic to allow irreconcilable conflicts amongst scholars to be reflected in a scholarly manner.
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External links
- Homepage of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy;
- A Solution to the Problem of Updating Encyclopedias - an article by Hammer and Zalta outlining the scholarly problem the Encyclopedia was created to address.de:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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