Murphy's Law: Denis Diderot - An article by John Patrick Michael Murphy on Diderot's philosophical project and motivations. Diderot, the Mechanical Arts, and the Encyclopaedie - A 1994 article from the Journal of Technology Education, by John R. Pannabecker. Denis Diderot Biography - Three biographical essays, by John Dunkley, C.A. Sainte-Beuve, and Jean Starobinski, on this key Enlightenment thinker. Wikipedia: Denis Diderot - Article from this openly-edited encyclopedia. ARTFL Encyclopedie - Project to prepare an online edition of Diderot's Encyclopedia. The text itself is available only to subscribing institutions. Denis Diderot - Brief biographical article on this leader of the Encyclopedists, from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.