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Hobbes and Hypertext

"And yet in this wild ranging of the mind, a man may oft-times perceive the way of it, and the dependence of one thought upon another. For in a discourse of our present civil war, what could seem more impertinent than to ask, as one did, what was the value of a Roman penny? Yet the coherence to me was manifest enough. For the thought of the war introduced the thought of the delivering up the King to his enemies; the thought of that brought in the thought of the delivering up of Christ; and that again the thought of the 30 pence, which was the price of that treason: and thence easily followed that malicious question; and all this in a moment of time, for thought is quick." (Leviathan, Part I, Chapter 3)


The incomporable Hobbes, philosopher of hypertext, whose thoughts on the interconnection of thoughts are reproduced on the left.


Philosophy in cyberspace

It has become customary to add a links page to one's website, and I'm certainly not one to buck the trend. Here you'll find some links I deem useful in philosophy.

Probably the most useful link for anyone interested in philosophy is the Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which has a sizeable and growing collection of essays on pretty much any philosophical subject.

In addition, you can find some good stuff at philosophypages.

There's also epistemelinks, which gives you a bunch of links to philosophy sites, many of which are interesting and informative, although some are just whacky.

The folks as philosophytalk.org have an interesting site that features interviews with philosophers on a variety of topics.

My research involves history and philosophy of mathematics, so I find it useful to surf over to the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics on occasion.

There's also HOPOS, the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.