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Philosophy Subject Guide

Encyclopedias

The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers
--4th floor Stacks-- B 41 .U7
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
--online-- netLibrary e-book
The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy
--Reference Stacks-- B 791 .E45; also available online
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
--Reference Stacks-- BH 56 .E53 (4 vol.)
Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
-- Reference Stacks-- B 121 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
--Reference Stacks-- B 802 .E53 2002 (4 vol.)
Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy
--Reference Stacks-- B 126 .E496
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
--Reference Stacks-- B 41.E5 (8 vol.)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
--Reference Stacks --B 51 .R68 (10 vol.)

Handbooks (Companions)

Cambridge Companion to Ockham
-- Reference Stacks-- B 765 .O34 C36 1999
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
--4th floor Stacks-- BF 31 .O94; also available online

Dictionaries

Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
--Reference Stacks-- B41 .B79 2004
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
--4th floor Stacks-- B 41 .C35
Dictionary of the History of Ideas; Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
--Reference Stacks-- CB 5 .D52 (5 vol.)
A Dictionary of Philosophy (Mautner, Thomas)
--Reference Stacks-- -B 41 .M38
A Dictionary of Philosophy (Lacey, A.R.)
--Reference Stacks-- B 41 .L32
--4th floor Stacks-- B 41 .L32 1976b
Dictionary of World Philosophy
--online-- netLibrary e-book
A Descartes Dictionary
--Reference Stacks-- B 1831 .C67
A Hegel Dictionary
--Reference Stacks-- B 2901 .I58
Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy
--Reference Stacks-- B 4371 .W38
A Locke Dictionary
--Reference Stacks-- B 1297 .Y64
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
--Reference Stacks-- B 41 .B53; also available online

Style Manuals

The Chicago Manual of Style
--Ready Reference-- Z 253 .C57
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
--Ready Reference-- LB 2369 .T8
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
--Ready Reference-- LB 2369 .G53

Biographies

Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
--Reference Stacks-- B 804 .B52; also available --online-- netLibrary e-book
The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers
--Reference Stacks-- B 1131 .D53 (Vol. 2)

Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Complete-- Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of articles published in scholarly publications from many disciplines.

AHSearch-- Indexes articles in arts and humanities journals and in selected social science and science journals.

America:History and Life-- Indexes and abstracts articles from scholarly journals, book reviews and dissertations covering the history of the United States and Canada. Includes links to full-text articles in JSTOR, Project Muse and the History Cooperative.

Biography Resource Center-- Provides full-text biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Historical Abstracts-- Indexes and abstracts scholarly journals, book reviews and dissertations covering modern world history from 1450 to the present. Includes links to full-text articles in JSTOR, Project Muse and the History Cooperative.

JSTOR-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science and population studies.

LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic-- Provides full-text of: U.S. and international newspapers; business, industry and market news; accounting literature; company financial reports and profiles; legal news and reviews; state and federal case law; state, U.S., Canadian, Commonwealth and E.U. codes and regulations; patents; medical news and journals; state and country profiles; biographies and quotations; polls and surveys and a world almanac.

The Philosopher's Index
--Reference Stacks-- B 1 .A1

MAS Ultra-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text articles from popular magazines, biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets, and reference books and images, maps and flags from archives and photo collections.

Project Muse-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
ProQuest Research Library-- Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of popular and scholarly periodicals from many disciplines.

Internet Sites

English Server Philosophy E-Texts -- The EServer, founded in 1990, is now based at Iowa State University. It has many major philosophy texts online.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy was founded in 1995 for the purpose of providing detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. It is housed at the University of Tennessee-Martin.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference work and is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.