Philosophical Society.com has been referenced in numerous books and periodicals and recognized as a key resource by various academic institutions. Among them:

Books

William Bellinger, The Economic Analysis of Public Policy

James Kennedy, The Presence of a Hidden God

Derrick de Kerckhove, McLuhan Neu Lesen

David Martin Lavigne, Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability

James W. Sire, The Universe Next Door

Institutions 

Aspen Institute, Baylor University, Cambridge University, City College of New York, George Mason University, National Social Science Press, Gloucestershire Philosophical Society, Heinrich Heine University, Ohio State Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, University of Florida, University of Pennsylvania, University of Winchester, Willamette University

Online

AlterNet, Answers.com, Ask Kids, Best Of The Web Directory, Consortium News, Daily Kos, Delicious, Facebook, Good Reads, Live Journal, MetaFilter, MySpace, Reddit, Seeking Alpha, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Wikipedia, Wordiq, Yahoo Answers, YouTube

Periodicals

The American Conservative, Discover Magazine, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Reason, Washington Post

Other

*In August 2009 Philosophical Society.com made Wired Magazine's "Hottest Web Links" list. That month the site received over 171,000 hits and 71,000 page views. It also made TweetMeme's "Hottest Links on Twitter."

*Several of the site's articles have turned up on college course syllabi in the fields of philosophy, media studies, rhetoric, and logic: e.g., Logical Fallacies, Santayana's Criticism of Nietzsche, Making Sense of MeWorld, McLuhan's Insight into the Media, and Philosophy and Depression.

Mission / Purpose

What distinguishes Philosophical Society.com from many comparable websites and journals is that it doesn’t begin from a fixed vantage point or ideological orientation. Its aim simply is to bring to light insights and ideas that arrest attention, that speak to the human condition today. Ideas culled from major works of philosophy, literature, science, and social theory, on such perennial themes as death, love, beauty, truth, and meaning.

This approach stands in marked contrast to that of much social and cultural commentary, which is often more concerned with news developments -- “persons, places, and things” -- than with ideas, and with merely piquing readers' interest rather than broadening their understanding.

In this mass information age so much “content” is disposable -- consumed one minute, forgotten the next. Philosophical Society.com publishes articles that will be read and remembered years, even decades, from now. Examples include Jung’s Stages of Life, An Existential View of Loneliness, On the Shortness of Life, Conversational Narcissism, and A Free Man’s Worship.

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