Provided by Evansville University as a companion LASE (Limited Area Search
Engine) to its Argos search engine (discussed in the November 1, 1996 Scout
Report), Hippias is "a peer-reviewed search engine that provides access to
philosophy-related resources on the [web]." Edited by Peter Suber of
Earlham College (maintainer of one of the best known philosophy meta-pages
on the Internet), Hippias searches seven major philosophy meta-sites,
including Andrew Carpenter's Course Materials in Philosophy, David
Chalmers' Philosophy Resources, and James Fieser's Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. The power of a LASE is that it allows concentrated searching of
known quality resources, rather than general searching of all resources in
a given field. [JS]