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Dr. Dell'Olio received an email from a former student and thought he'd share it with you.

Dear Dr. Dell’Olio,

It’s been a few years since I sat in your classroom, but I wanted to write and say thanks. Thanks to you, and to all my Hope philosophy professors. I studied at Hope from ’93-’97 and majored in philosophy. I came to Hope as a pre-med student with the intention of going to medical school. I figured I’d get all the physiology I’d need in med school, so I took the opportunity as an undergraduate to study philosophy, which as well all know is the best field of study. I went on to med school at Wayne State and am now a practicing physician in Fremont, MI, about an hour north of Grand Rapids. I am a busy family physician, with a full practice, a beautiful wife, and three wonderful children. Life is good, and studying philosophy has been one of the best decisions I’ve made. It informs not only my worldview, but my daily thoughts. It serves me daily during patient interactions. My only regret is that I didn’t have enough time to pursue graduate philosophy studies and med school together. I suppose there are only so many hours in the day, and so little time on God’s green earth.

If you have any pre-med students who need a nudge to major in philosophy, let me know. I’ll give them the hard sell. It will serve them well. I know it has done wonders for me. Thanks.

Steve Welsh, Hope ‘97

Interesting Philosophy Websites, Engines and Portals

Noesis: Philosophy Research Online -
http://noesis.evansville.edu/index.htm

Searches the web for philosophy materials, attempting to limit to work by philosophy scholars.

PhilPapers - http://philpapers.org/

This "comprehensive directory of online academic philosophy" is one of my personal favorite finds. It pulls together current and archived philosophy available electronically, and also links to library subscription content, in addition to academic website and blogs.

NYPL Best of the Web
http://www.nypl.org/collections/nypl-recommendations/best-of-web

An example of a portal, or collection of links to topical websites. Unfortunately you have to scroll down the alphabetical list to get to Philosophy here.

Perseus Project - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

This is an example of a digital library project. Among many other texts, it contains a number of texts of the Classical philosophers, both in English and Greek, along with translation tools.

Online Library of Liberty - http://oll.libertyfund.org/

Another general full text digital library project that contains some philosophical texts, naturally related to the concept of liberty.