Page Text: “ I Hear the Train A Comin' ”, by Greg Tananbaum, in Against the Grain, 18/1 (February 2006): 84–85.
Abstracts:
“ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Dynamic Reference Work ”, by Colin Allen, Uri Nodelman, and Edward N. Zalta, in Proceedings of the Third ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (May 27–31, 2003), New York: Association for Computing Machinery Publications, p. 383.
“ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Dynamic Reference Work ”, by Uri Nodelman, Colin Allen, and Edward N. Zalta, in Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (July 14–18, 2002), New York: Association for Computing Machinery Publications, p. 380.
“ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Dynamic Reference Work ”, by Edward N. Zalta, Colin Allen, and Uri Nodelman, in Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (June 24–28, 2001), New York: Association for Computing Machinery Publications, p. 457.
“ Digital Workflow Concepts for Dynamic Reference Works ”, abstract of talk delivered by Edward N. Zalta at the Ancient Studies — New Technology Conference, Salve Regina University, December 2000.
“ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Developed Dynamic Reference Work ” (285K PDF document), by Colin Allen, Uri Nodelman, and Edward N. Zalta, in Metaphilosophy, 33/1-2 (January 2002): 210–228; reprinted in CyberPhilosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy and Computing, James H. Moor and Terrell Ward Bynum, (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 201–218.
“ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ”, by Edward N. Zalta, SPARC E-News (October/November 1999), published by The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, online publication. (This issue is now archived offline; the above link is to our preprint.)
“ A Solution to the Problem of Updating Encyclopedias ”, by Eric Hammer and Edward N. Zalta, Computers and the Humanities, 31/1 (1997): 47–60. [Note: The ftp-based file upload system described in this paper was superseded by a browser-based file upload system which uses special password-protected web interfaces for the authors and editors.]
“ Why Philosophy Needs a ‘Dynamic’ Encyclopedia ”, by John Perry and Edward N. Zalta, URL = , November 1997.
Acknowledgments
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is indebted to many people, both at Stanford and elsewhere, who have supported the efforts of the project in significant ways. First, and foremost, we'd like to thank Professor John Perry, who has served as the principal investigator on the SEP grants, provided high-level supervision on the project, serves as the SEP's advocate to the Stanford administration, and gave generously of his time in SEP fund-raising activities. After Perry served as the SEP's Faculty Sponsor for many years, the role finally turned over first to Helen Longino, and then to R. Lanier Anderson.
Administrative Assistance
The SEP would like to acknowledge significant support from the Administrative Staff of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) from Fall 1995 (when the SEP project started) through Fall 2021, when it moved to the Department of Philosophy. We especially thank Amita Kumar and Michelle Lodwick for their tireless efforts on behalf of the SEP. The project would not be what it is today without their work.
Editorial Assistance
The SEP would also like to thank the following people: Nathan Tawil, Paul E. Oppenheimer, Jesse Alama, Ben Wolfson, Tamar Lando, Matthew Barrett, and Arezoo Islami have provided, and in some cases continue to provide, valuable editorial and document-editing assistance. Kirsta Anderson (M.A./Philosophy) served as Assistant Editor during the 2003–2004 academic year, and did an outstanding job in SEP communications and control, offering many suggestions on how to improve our workflow system. Also, Daniel McKenzie served as Assistant Editor during the 2004–2005 academic year, and did a great job juggling communications/control and copy-editing. Others, including Matthew Barrett and Justin Pront, have helped on a smaller scale with SEP editorial duties. Recently, Benjamin Patrick Przybocki has helped convert entries to HTML/MathJax.
Fund-Raising Assistance
We are especially indebted to Patrick Byrne (Ph.D., Stanford, 1995) and The Byrne Foundation for a large and generous gift to the SEP, creating the John Perry Fund. The John Perry Fund forms an important part of the SEP's endowment. We are also deeply indebted to Michelle Wachs (J.D., Harvard, 1993) of Giving Solutions, whose tireless and enthusiastic efforts as the SEP's fund-raising consultant during the 2005–2006 and 2006–2007 academic years helped us achieve our fund-raising goals for those years. We were able to hire Michelle with funds from a generous grant by the Hewlett Foundation. We would also like to acknowledge the contribution of Javier Ergueta (M.B.A., Stanford, 1980), for his efforts and work in developing a business plan for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy during the first six months of 2002. Javier's time was paid for through a generous grant by the Mellon Foundation. Thanks go the following students in John Perry's Fall 2004 Proseminar, for their help and assistance in implementing an important element of the SEP's fund-raising plan: Dan Giberman, Tomohiro Hoshi, Alistair Isaac, Daniel Long, Lindsay McLeary, Sarah Paul, Josh Snyder, Quayshawn Spencer and Johanna Wolff.
Programming Assistance
The Associate Editor (Colin Allen) and the Senior Editor (Uri Nodelman) have been the Principal and Associate Perl Programmers, respectively, on this project since 1998. Paul Daniell not only developed a customized search engine for the SEP, but also developed the software that administers the Friends of the SEP Society . During the 2007–2008 and 2008–2009 years, Jesse Alama has contributed his programming skills, in addition to his document editing skills. Eric Hammer (Expedia.com) programmed on the project in its early years, from 1995 to 1997. During the 2000–2001 and 2001–2002 academic years, David James Anderson (M.A./Philosophy) wrote important Perl programs and made other contributions to the project. We'd also like to thank John MacFarlane for developing a program that produces PDF versions of SEP entries in two-column landscape mode.
Web Design Assistance
In March 2014, the SEP launched a new website design. We are indebted to the team at Stanford Web Services , and especially Sara Worrell-Berg, Megan Miller, Anna Cobb, and Brian Young. They did a terrific job with the new design. In this connection, we are also indebted to Scott Stocker, Zach Chandler, Lisa Lapin, and John Etchemendy, for playing a role and helping to facilitate this initiative.
New Technologies Assistance
The Encyclopedia would like acknowledge and thank the researchers and programmers who are contributing to SEP-enhancement initiatives being pursued by the Internet Philosophy Ontology project (InPhO), directed by Colin Allen. Special thanks go to: Cameron Buckner , Ruth Eberle , Nubli Kasa, and Jaimie Murdock , Mathias Niepert , Scott Weingart . Using a combination of text mining, human feedback, and machine reasoning, the InPhO project is enhancing such critical functions as cross-referencing the SEP, classifying topics, and organizing its bibliographic database. We also indebted to the InPhO team for hosting a backup server for the SEP.
We are grateful for the MathJax project which we are now starting to use for mathematical formatting in our entries. And we would also like to acknowledge John MacFarlane 's work on pandoc , which has become an important part of our workflow in converting LaTeX document to HTML with MathJax.
General Assistance
The Encyclopedia would like to acknowledge the volunteer services of Gintautas Miliauskas, Greg Stokley, Jason Wu, Yong Wei Chong Gabrielle, and Emily Fox-Penner for carefully reading and copy-editing SEP entries and notifying us about typographical and other errors found therein. We'd like to thank Nathan Tawil, who helped design the Encyclopedia entry format when the project started in 1995, and who has assisted the Principal Editor in editing certain entries. We're also indebted to David Barker-Plummer , Mark Greaves, Emma Pease , Susanne Riehemann , and Lynn Allen for their many helpful suggestions concerning the Encyclopedia project and the construction of this Web site.
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