Library Guides: PHILOSOPHY: Subject Guide: Get Started

Getting Started

In this Guide, you'll find:

Reference Sources to help you find background information
Databases and some select philosophy journals to help you Find Articles
Information on ebooks, streaming media, and searching the catalog to help you Find Books & Media
Information on Citing Your Sources

Key Resources

Quick links to best bets

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database - designed to cover many of the academic disciplines offered at colleges and universities. Offers over 4,700 full text journals.

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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) was founded in 1995 as a non-profit organization to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.

Gale OneFile: Religion & Philosophy This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Updated daily, this resource supports a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues.

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Reference sources - great for getting started

Reference sources can be a great starting point for research. Reference sources typically provide definitions, give topic overviews, and explain theories. They can also point to additional readings and scholarship. Examples of reference sources include: dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, guidebooks, manuals, and textbooks.

Selected Reference Books

Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics
Call Number: ebook
Covers a wide range of philosophical ideas including non-European traditions such as African philosophies and Islamic ethics
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Call Number: REF 128.2 Ox2
Encyclopedia of the Mind
Call Number: REF 150 En192
Brings together scholars from the entire range of mind-related academic disciplines from across the arts and humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and computer science and engineering to explore the multidimensional nature of the human mind.

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Philosophy
Call Number: REF 103 L116d
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Call Number: ebook
Dictionary of World Philosophy
Call Number: ebook
Covers the diverse and challenging terminology, concepts, schools and traditions of the vast field of world philosophy.
Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion
Call Number: REF 210.3 D561
A Dictionary of Philosophy
Call Number: ebook
This comprehensive dictionary spans the personalities, terminology and vocabulary of thousands of years of philosophical thought in addition to the more recent encroachment of social and psychological sciences.
A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic
Call Number: ebook
Introduces students to the main problems and positions of philosophical logic.
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Call Number: ebook
The leading, full-scale comprehensive dictionary of philosophical terms and thinkers.

Encyclopedias

Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Call Number: ebook
Philosophy reference with entries ranging from Abstract Objects to Wisdom, Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre, Ancient Egyptian Philosophy to Yoruba Epistemology.
Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion
Call Number: ebook
Presents the religious affiliations and beliefs of prominent philosophers, in A-Z entries.
Encyclopedia of Ethics
Call Number: ebook
Coverage of ethical theory as pursued among English-speaking philosophers.