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PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. We monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy. Our index currently contains 2,465,433 entries categorized in 5,578 categories. PhilPapers has over 260,000 registered users.

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Happy birthday PhilPapers!
posted 2019-01-28 by David Bourget

Today (January 28, 2019) is PhilPapers' tenth birthday. PhilPapers has grown enormously since its modest beginnings at the ANU. In the first months, we had only a few thousand users. Now we have hundreds of thousands. We started by indexing a relatively small number of articles that were readily available online. Now we have by far the most complete index of... (read more)

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posted 2018-05-30 by David Bourget
We have just launched a beta testing version of PhilPeople, a directory and social network for philosophers developed by the PhilPapers Foundation with support from the American Philosophical Association. Visit the site to find out more!

Moving toward PhilPeople
posted 2018-01-09 by David Bourget
In the coming months, we will launch PhilPeople, a new service from the PhilPapers Foundation developed with the support of the APA.  PhilPeople will be a searchable database of philosophers.  It will have an associated search engine that enables searches on a number of dimensions (e.g. by areas of specialization, location, and demographic features).  PhilPeople will also provide a profile page... (read more)

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