Selected Resources for: Philosophy


Subject Librarian: Susan Gangl
E-Mail: s-gang@tc.umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers: aesthetics, epistemology, logic, ethics, history of philosophy, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy of mind and psychology, philosophy of science.


Abstracts and Indexes

* Premier Resources *
Philosopher's Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World. Database Fact Sheet available at http://www.csa.com/factsheets/philosopher-set-c.php
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Philosophy Compass
Philosophy Compass is an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research from and current thinking from across the entire discipline
In an age of hyper-specialization, Philosophy Compass provides an ideal starting point for the non-specialist, offering pointers for researchers, teachers and students alike, to help them find and interpret the best research in the field.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online Authentication Required
The first multi-volume Encyclopedia to be published in the discipline in over thirty years, REP is now regarded as the definitive resource in the field. Features 2,000 original entries from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Authentication Required
A "dynamic" reference work, with each entry maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. Includes articles on individual philosophers, schools, and concepts. The SEP is an open-access resource supported by the University of Minnesota Libraries and Department of Philosophy.
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
AHCI covers arts and humanities, including archaeology, architecture, area studies, art, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language and linguistics, literature and literary reviews, music, philosophy, poetry, radio and television, religion and theology, and theater. Indexes articles, book reviews, performance reviews, fiction, poetry, editorials, letters, etc. from over 1,100 arts and humanities journals published worldwide in all languages. Also includes selected relevant articles from an additional 6,800 journals in other fields. Each bibliographic citation includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Covers 1975 - present.

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Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Authentication Required
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Updated, uniform subject headings facilitate your search, with the original subject headings also provided.
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International Philosophical Bibliography Authentication Required
This online bibliography lists books and articles about philosophy and history of philosophy including: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment, 19th and 20th Centuries, and Non-Western Traditions. Language scope: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan. The International Philosophical Bibliography covers all issues 1997 to present. The Retrospective file covers selected pre-1996 listings. The starting point of the bibliography changes daily. Check MNCAT for corresponding print version.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies

Bibliographies
Past Masters Authentication Required
This cluster of full-text databases includes works by Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Continental Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz), and British philosophers from 1600-1900 (Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, and others).
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Catalogs
MNCAT Classic
Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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General Reference Sources

Biographical Sources
Directory of American Philosophers
Quarto B935 .D5 Wilson Reference; latest edition in Wilson Reference
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Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion (online)
ON ORDER; check MNCAT for Availability. Ordered May 2009 Abe, Masao -- Abelard, Peter --- Adorno, Theodor W.-- Alexander, Samuel-- Alston, William P.-- Anselm of Canterbury-- Arendt, Hannah-- Aristotle-- Augustine-- Averroes-- Avicenna-- Ayer, Alfred-- Bacon, Francis-- Bacon, Roger-- Bataille, Georges-- Bayle, Pierre-- Bentham, Jeremy-- Berdyaev, Nicholai-- Bergson, Henri-- Berkeley, George-- Blanshard, Brand-- Blondel, Maurice-- Boethius-- Bradley, Francis Herbert-- Braithwaite, Richard B.-- Brightman, Edgar Sheffield-- Broad, Charlie Dunbar-- Bruno, Giordano-- Buber, Martin-- Carnap, Rudolf-- Cassirer, Ernst-- Chrysippus-- Cicero-- Cleanthes-- Clifford, William K.-- Cohen, Hermann-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor-- Comte, Auguste-- Condorcet, Antoine-Nicolas de-- Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish-- Croce, Benedetto-- Daly, Mary-- Derrida, Jacques-- Descartes, Rene-- Dewey, John-- Dilthey, Wilhelm-- Duns Scotus, John-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo-- Empedocles-- Epictetus-- Epicurus-- Fackenheim, Emil-- Feuerbach, Ludwig-- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb-- Ficino, Marsilio-- Flew, Antony-- Foucault, Michel-- Gadamer, Hans-Georg-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von-- Habermas, Jurgen-- Hartshorne, Charles-- Hegel, G.W.F.-- Heidegger, Martin-- Heraclitus-- Herbert of Cherbury, Edward-- Herder, Johann Gottfried-- Hick, John-- Hobbes, Thomas-- Hocking, William Ernest-- Horkheimer, Max-- Hume, David-- Husserl, Edmund-- Iamblichus-- Irigaray, Luce-- James, William-- Jaspers, Karl-- John Scottus Eriugena-- Kant, Immanuel-- Kemp Smith, Norman-- Kierkegaard, Søren-- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm-- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim-- Levinas, Emmanuel-- Locke, John-- Lucretius-- Macintyre, Alasdair-- Maimonides, Moses-- Malebranche, Nicolas-- Marcel, Gabriel-- Maritain, Jacques-- Marx, Karl-- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice-- Mill, John Stuart-- Montaigne, Michel de-- Moore, George Edward-- Murdoch, Iris-- Nicholas of Cusa-- Nietzsche, Friedrich-- Nozick, Robert-- Ortega y Gasset, Jose-- Parmenides-- Pascal, Blaise-- Peirce, Charles Sanders-- Phillips, D.Z.-- Plantinga, Alvin-- Plato-- Plotinus-- Plutarch-- Porphyry-- Proclus-- Proudfoot, Wayne-- Pythagoras-- Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli-- Rand, Ayn-- Randall, John Herman, Jr-- Rawls, John-- Reid, Thomas-- Rescher, Nicholas-- Ricoeur, Paul-- Rorty, Richard-- Rousseau Jean-Jacques-- Royce, Josiah-- Ruse, Michael-- Russell, Bertrand-- Santayana, George-- Sartre, Jean-Paul-- Scheler, Max-- Schelling, Friedrich-- Schleiermacher, Friedrich-- Schopenhauer, Arthur-- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus-- Sextus Empiricus-- Smart, Ninian-- Socrates-- Solovyov, Vladimir-- Spencer, Herbert-- Spinoza, Baruch-- Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro-- Swinburne, Richard-- Tennant, Frederick Robert-- Thomas Aquinas-- Thoreau, Henry David-- Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de-- Vico, Giambattista-- Voltaire-- Von Hugel, Friedrich, Baron-- Whitehead, Alfred North-- William of Ockham-- Wisdom John-- Wittgenstein, Ludwig-- Xenophanes-- Zeno of Citium
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Fifty Major Philosophers (online)
CONTENTS Aquinas Aristotle Augustine Ayer Bacon Bentham Berkeley Collingwood Democritus Descartes Duns Scotus Frege Galileo Glossary Hegel Heidegger Heraclitus Hobbes Hume Husserl James Kant Kierkegaard Leibniz Locke Machiavelli Maimonides Marx Merleau-Ponty Mill Moore Nietzsche Ockham Parmenides Peirce Plato Plotinus Popper Preface Pythagoras Quine Rawls Rousseau Russell Sartre Schopenhauer Socrates Spinoza Thales Wittgenstein Zeno
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Women Philosophers: a Bio-Critical Source Book
This book "covers more than 170 women born before 1920 who wrote about or pondered questions of Western intellectual life. The volume includes extensive bibliographies of both primary and secondary works about each philosopher." –The Philosophers Index B105 .W6 K47 1989 Wilson Reference
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Dictionaries




New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Authentication Required
Expanding on the original Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1974), edited by Philip Wiener, the New Dictionary has a broader scope introducing global- and gender-neutral perspectives not present in the earlier print edition. In 700 accessible articles, alphabetically arranged, a distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.
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Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online Authentication Required
Described by Booklist as "the best and most comprehensive English-language reference source for philosophy. Macmillan Reference USA, c2006. Gale/Cengage.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Offers articles, many written by specialized philosophers, that are browsable by era or searchable by keyword.
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Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Access for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities only
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Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy [electronic resource]
view MNCAT record to access electronic book. SEE ALSO CD version in Wilson: Title: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy AND Print edition: Quarto B41 .R68 Vol. 1-10 WILSON Reference; MAGRATH Ref
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Handbooks and Manuals



Internet Resources

Gateways & Megasites
Philosophy in Cyberspace
Designed by Dey Alexander, this site indexes more than 1,000 philosophy-related sites, 300 mailing lists, and 60 newsgroups in more than 50 subject-oriented categories divided into five subgroups: Branches of Philosophy and Cognate Disciplines; Journals and Text-Related Resources; Philosophy Departments, Centres, and Organizations; Mailing Lists and Newsgroups; and Other Resources.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

Journal Titles
Philosophy E-Journals
Available to students, faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. This link takes you to a listing of the electronic journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota.
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Primary Source Materials

Archival Materials
Eighteenth Century Collections Online Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800. ECCO is a comprehensive digital edition of /The Eighteenth Century/, the world's largest library of the printed book on microfilm. ECCO allows full-text searching of over 180,000 titles English-language titles and editions -- in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. It includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations

Official Agency & Organization Websites
APA (American Philosophical Association) Online
Contains a wide range of information on publications, conferences, web resources, etc.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
Style Manuals
A selected list of sources available in Wilson Reference Services.
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Library Information

Primary Subject Location


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Philosophy Reference Sources: A Selected List