Philosophy Subject Guide
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Indexes
General
Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.
Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed academic journals, offering indexing, abstracting and some full-text. Also includes image collections of people, places, historical photos, and more.
Britannica Online
Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Subject
Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.
MLA International Bibliography, a database of citations to materials in literature, linguistics and languages.
E-Sources
Reference
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy the first dynamic encyclopedia, where each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field (the authors are given direct electronic access to their entries). Supported by Stanford University.
Journals
Project Muse
Index of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.
SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in various subjects, including philosophy (formerly Kluwer Journals).
Books
netLibrarycollection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.
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About the Catalog
Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.
Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.
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Environmental ethics Philosophers Philosophy of mind
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Philosophy, Ancient
Internet Sites
- Continental Philosophy provides links to information and sites on critical theory, cultural theory, deconstruction, existentialism, feminist theory, Marxism, post-colonialism, post-modern thought, semiotics, structuralism, and other theoretical approaches.
- Some Texts from Early Modern Philosophy Jonathan F. Bennett, a former philosophy professor, has translated into modern English texts by Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Kant, and Mill in order for students to be able to concentrate on the philosophy and less upon the linguistic differences.
- Episteme Links includes thousands of sorted links to philosophy resources on the internet as well as assorted other features.
- Guide to Philosophy on the Internet is the work of Peter Suber of the Philosophy Department of Earlham College.
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers an alphabetical search tool. Founded and edited by James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin. Maintained by many subject specialist editors.
- Philosophy in Cyberspace is an annotated index intended as a guide to a wide range of philosophy-related materials available online. Offers five sections including branches, texts, organizations, and forums.
- Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) provides an annotated index to selected, high quality Internet information on various areas of philosophy.
About the Department
Citing Sources
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition (LB2369 .G53 2003)
or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct MLA citation format.
