PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH GUIDE

Databases

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Databases
        
The Philosopher's Index
Provides abstracts of scholarly journal articles and books in philosophy and related fields. 
  
JSTOR  
  JSTOR offers full-text access to articles from leading journals in many fields, including philosophy. The coverage of some journals extends back for more than a century.
   
Project Muse
  Project Muse provides full text of scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
   
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy CD-Rom  In Library Only In-library access only
Provides over 2,000 articles on topics in philosophy, including all continents and all time periods. See a librarian for assistance.   
Early English Books Online
EEBO contains over 100,000 full digital facsimiles of books published from 1475 -1700, including works on philosophy.
   
L'Année Philologique
L'Année Philologique is an index to books and journal articles (published since 1949), and ancient texts in Classical Studies covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity from the second millenium B.C. through the early middle ages.
   
   

 

 
Print Resources
 
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
 
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (10 vols.)
Provides over 2,000 articles on topics in philosophy, including philosophy from all continents and all time periods
REF B51.R68 1998
    
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (8 vols.; Supplement)
Contains more than 1,500 articles on Eastern and Western philosophy, including ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy.
REF B41.E5
    
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
Provides articles on leading theories and concepts in ethics and other related fields, such as medical, scientific, and environmental ethics and ethics in social relationships and social services.
REF BJ63.E44
 
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Treats major philosophers, subfields of philosophy (epistemology, ethics, philosophy of the mind), and non-Western terms and thinks.
REF B41.C35 1995
    
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Addresses works of the great philosophers, the British and American thinkers of the English language, major figures in other languages, and contemporary philosophers.
REF B51.O94 1995
    

 

  
Web Sites
 
Guides to Web Resources
 
EpistemeLinks.com
Contains more than 15,000 links to philosophy Web sites arranged by categories, including philosophers, topics, and reference resources.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/index.aspx
 
Philosophy in Cyberspace
:Provides Web links to sites on philosophy topics, including aesthetics, ancient philosophy and classical thought, eastern philosophy, ethics and bioethics, existentialism, and philosophy of religion.
http://arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy/
 
Philosophy Research Base:  Major Topics in Philosophy
A meta-index of online and text resources in philosophy.  Topics covered include feminism, deconstruction, death and dying, existentialism, and postmodernism. Includes a names index and a history index.
http://www.erraticimpact.com
 
Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy
Provides a list of links to Web resources in philosophy.  Topics include general resources, philosophical fields, modern philosophical movements, and philosophers and works.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2724
 
Ethics Updates
Provides current information to update the professional and popular ethics literature.  Includes information on theoretical literature, such as Aristotle and virtue ethics, justice, and religion and ethics, and information on Applied Ethics, such as abortion, animal rights, death penalty, and gender and sexism.
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/
 

 

 
Encyclopedias
 
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Provides alphabetical index to articles about people, topics, and events related philosophy.  Includes a search engine and a historical timeline.
http://www.iep.utm.edu
 
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Provides articles on philosophy topics.  Includes a search engine and a table of contents for easy access to articles.
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
 

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