MCP server for philosophy texts — PhilPapers/PhilArchive scholarship plus public-domain classics (Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Wikisource), open-access books (DOAB), modern editions (Open Library),...
概览
An MCP server for — both current scholarship and the canon. It folds these into one keyless server: - — the philosophy preprint archive (the field's closest analog to arXiv): search papers, read abstracts, browse recent submissions, pull full text. - — public-domain originals and translations (Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Wikisource), open-access academic books (DOAB), modern editions (Open Library), and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — plus a generic fetch_text for any other source (Zeno.org, marxists.org, Standard Ebooks, …). - — open a large local PDF or text file and work it without loading the whole thing into context: outline, in-file search, and paged reading. Everything runs against keyless public endpoints. Renamed and expanded from (which covered only the PhilPapers tools). The philpapers-mcp binary name still works as an alias.
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philosophy-mcp
An MCP server for philosophy texts — both current scholarship and the canon. It folds these into one keyless server:
- PhilPapers / PhilArchive — the philosophy preprint archive (the field’s closest analog to arXiv): search papers, read abstracts, browse recent submissions, pull full text.
- Books, classics & reference — public-domain originals and translations (Project
Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Wikisource), open-access academic books (DOAB), modern
editions (Open Library), and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — plus a generic
fetch_textfor any other source (Zeno.org, marxists.org, Standard Ebooks, …). - Local documents — open a large local PDF or text file and work it without loading the whole thing into context: outline, in-file search, and paged reading.
No API key required. Everything runs against keyless public endpoints.
Renamed and expanded from philpapers-mcp (which covered only the PhilPapers tools). The
philpapers-mcpbinary name still works as an alias.
Tools
Philosophy scholarship (PhilPapers / PhilArchive)
| Tool | What it does | Backend |
|---|---|---|
search_papers |
Keyword search (title/abstract/full text), returns metadata + PhilArchive links + PDF URL | OpenAlex, filtered to the PhilPapers Foundation source |
research |
One-shot scan: search and pull each hit’s verbatim full abstract + subjects in a single call | OpenAlex + OAI-PMH GetRecord |
get_paper |
Canonical metadata + full abstract for one record id | PhilArchive OAI-PMH GetRecord |
list_recent |
Records added/updated in a date window | PhilArchive OAI-PMH ListRecords |
fetch_pdf |
Download a record’s open-access PDF to disk, return the path | philpapers.org/archive/.pdf |
get_fulltext |
Download the open-access PDF and return its extracted full text | PDF + unpdf text extraction |
PhilArchive is the open-access archive built on the PhilPapers database, so a record id
such as BROTNO-9 resolves on both philarchive.org and philpapers.org.
Books, classics & reference
| Tool | What it does | Source |
|---|---|---|
search_gutenberg / get_gutenberg_text |
Find and read public-domain classics + out-of-copyright translations | Project Gutenberg (Gutendex, with a gutenberg.org fallback) |
search_internet_archive / get_archive_text |
Find scanned, out-of-print works and read their OCR text | Internet Archive |
search_wikisource / get_wikisource_text |
Find and read primary texts/translations in any language (en, de, ko, …) | Wikisource |
search_openlibrary |
Modern editions & translations as metadata, with read/borrow links | Open Library |
安装
npx -y philosophy-mcp配置
{
"mcpServers": {
"philosophy": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/home/sea9401/philpapers-mcp/dist/index.js"],
"env": { "OPENALEX_MAILTO": "[email protected]" }
}
}
}