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Philosophy

Finding Books

Web Sites for Research

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Societies

Periodical & Book Chapter Indexes

Philosophy Department

Philosophy Journals Available at CSULB

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COAST ONLINE CATALOG

COAST Library Catalog of Books: http://coast.library.csulb.edu/. Your doorway to what we have in the University Library including 1.25 million books, some over 500 years old. Below is a selection of a few general subject headings for philosophy. Select any one of the following subjects to retrieve records from our catalog.

 

Aesthetics

Idealism

Analysis (Philosophy)

Knowledge, theory of

Bioethics

Logic

Deconstruction

Metaphysics

Emotions (Philosophy)

Phenomenology

Ethics

Philosophy

Existentialism

Pragmatism

Free Will and Determinism

Science-Philosophy

Good and evil

Values

 

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A SELECTION OF IMPORTANT DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

  • Biographical dictionary of twentieth-century philosophers. (REF B104 .B5 1996).
  • Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names: http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/
  • Encyclopedia of classical philosophy. (REF B163 .E53 1997).
  • The encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. REF BL1005 .L4813 1989.
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (REF B51 R68 1998). Important multi-volume encyclopedia.
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/.
  • World philosophy : essay-reviews of 225 major works. 5 Volumes. (B29 W68 1982).

 

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PERIODICAL & BOOK CHAPTER INDEXES

 

Academic Search Complete  Covers nearly 5300 full text journal titles including some major philosophy journals. Coverage goes back to the early 1990s.

 

Bioethics in National Library of Medicine Gateway To get to Bioethics component: 1) Click on "Limits/Settings" 2) go to "subsets" drop down menu and select "bioethics." 3) Click on "apply" and then conduct your search. The database contains ethical, legal, and public policy issues in health care and biomedical research, focusing on topics such as abortion, AIDS, euthanasia, in-vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, genetic engineering, and informed consent. Database goes back to the early 1950s

 

Ebsco Ejournals  A full text journal "aggregator". It includes more than 250 important philosophy journals.

 

Humanities Abstracts  More than 400 periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Available online 1983 to date. Print index goes back to 1974.

 

Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Covers scholarly journal content in the humanities from 1907-1984.

 

pSearch customized philosophy search engine "pSearch provides search results relevant to academic philosophers by searching only those web sites with online academic philosophy papers and authoritative reference sites. It is powered by Google Co-op and maintained by Joe Lau at the University of Hong Kong."

 

Brepolis Medieval Bibliographes Online Contains citations to approximately 300,000 records dating to 1967. It indexes periodical articles, book articles, conference proceedings and other publications published world wide and in 30 languages. All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 300-1500 AD. Europe, the Middle East and North Africa are the database's focus.

 

JSTOR: Journal Storage Online  A full text database of searchable archived journals. It includes the following titles from their earliest publication until 1999. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Bulletin of Symbolic Logic; Ethics; International Journal of Ethics; Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; Journal of Philosophy; Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods; Journal of Symbolic Logic; Mind; Nous; Philosophical Perspectives; Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophical Review; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Philosophy and Public Affairs; Philosophy of Science; Political Theory; Sociological Theory.

 

Paideia Project Online, The Paideia Archive Contains more than 900 philosophy papers from the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy

 

Philosophers Index  An international index with abstracts from more than 400 philosophy journals and books. Coverage goes back to 1940.

 

Project Muse  Full text electronic access to 180 scholarly journals including the following philosophy journals: American Journal of Bioethics; Ethics and the Environment; Hypatia; Journal of Nietzsche Studies; Journal of Speculative Philosophy; Journal of the History of Philosophy; Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal; Perspectives in Biology & Medicine; Perspectives on Science; Philosophy and Literature; Philosophy & Public Affairs; Philosophy and Rhetoric; Philosophy East and West; Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology.

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PHILOSOPHY JOURNALS AVAILABLE AT CSULB

The library has access to hundreds of scholarly philosophy and philosophy related journals. First search for periodical under Journal Title in COAST. If you don't see it there, go to the Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings. You might find your history journal in one of our many full text research databases. Also see this subject list of online philosophy journals available at CSULB.


 

WEB SITES FOR RESEARCH

 

Episteme Links: Philosophy Sources on the Internet

 

Google's Web Directory of Philosophy

 

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet: Very comprehensive.

 

Noesis, Philosophical Research Online "asearch engine for open access, academic philosophy on the Internet."

 

Individual Philosophers: Alphabetical Index. Sponsored by Oxford University:

 

Philosophy Documentation Center "a non-profit organization committed to providing affordable access to the widest possible range of philosophical materials."

 

Philosophy pages from Garth Kemerling "This site offers helpful information for students of the Western philosophical tradition. "

 

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PHILOSOPHY SOCIETIES

 

American Philosophical Association

 

American Philosophical Practitioners Association

 

Hegel Society of America

 

International Society for Environmental Ethics

 

SPEP: Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

 

 

Content maintained by Greg Armento, History, Geography, Religion, and Philosophy Librarian