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Brief Description: Philosophy is a word that is much abused and overused in everyday speech. Below are tools for research in the academic discipline of philosophy. Included here are tools for searching in some related fields that may be of great value to philosophers, such as religion and classical history.

For more information, please contact the Philosophy librarian, Jennifer E. Knievel, 303-492-8887

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Scholarly Articles
These databases provide citations to scholarly sources. Once you find a citation in the database, you need to search the E-journal Finder or Chinook to find out if CU has access to that journal.

CU Philosopher's Index
The primary source for all Philosophy related research. Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

 

CU Arts and Humanities Citation Index via Web of Science
Tracks where articles have been cited after their publication.
Coverage : 1980 to the present.

 

CU Humanities Abstracts/Full Text
Abstracts and some full text covering diverse subject areas of the humanities. Covers a few philosophy journals not covered in Philosopher's Index. Coverage: Abstracts from 1985 to the present; full text from 1995 to the present.

 

CU ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups are included. As with the ATLA Religion Database, coverage dates back to 1949.

 

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Available on paper in the Reference Department: AI3 .C32. Covers many sources not covered in ATLAS Religion. Online trial available here through September 2004.

 

Bibliographie de la philosophie. Bibliography of philosophy
Available on paper in the Reference Department: Z7127 .B5.

 

International philosophical bibliography = Repertoire bibliographique de la philosophie = Bibliografisch repertorium
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Available on paper in the Reference Department: Z7127 .R42.

 

CU L'Annee Philologique
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An international annual index to research on all aspects of greco-roman antiquity, from prehistory to 800 AD. Indexes books, journal articles, dissertations, and conference proceedings covering a broad range of classical subjects, including language, literature, archaeology, history, law, philosophy, science, and technology.
Coverage: 1969 - present.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, & Directories

CU Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Features over 2000 original articles from over 1300 leading international experts across the discipline of philosophy. CU

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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.

 

The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy
Norlin Stacks: B41 .C35 1999. 1 Volume.

 

Biographical dictionary of twentieth-century philosophers
Reference Department: B804 .B52 1996.

 

A dictionary of philosophy
by Thomas Mautner.
Norlin Stacks B41 .M38 1996

 

Dictionary of philosophy and religion : Eastern and Western thought
by William L. Reese.
Reference Department B41 .R43 1996.

 

A dictionary of philosophy
by A.R. Lacey.
Reference Department B41 .L32 1996.

 

The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy
Ed. by Robert Audi.
Norlin Stacks B41 .C35 1995

 

The Oxford dictionary of philosophy
by Simon Blackburn.
Norlin Stacks B41 .B53 1994.

 

International directory of philosophy and philosophers.
Norlin Stacks B35 .I55.
Published Annually

 

Directory of American philosophers
Most recent edition in Reference Department B935 .D5, all others in Norlin Stacks B935 .D5
Published Annually.

Full Text

Past Masters [CDROM]: humanities databases, full text, scholarly editions
Complete texts, in original languages, of pivotal philosophers, including Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Berkeley, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Plato, and Wittgenstein.

Library Catalogs

CU WorldCat
Contains records for most books owned by US Libraries and some other English speaking countries.

Bibliographies
Bibliographies are an excellent way to find other sources for Philosophical research.

CU Philosophical Books (Online)
An online journal with reviews of philosophical books.

 

Analytic philosophy of religion : a bibliography, 1940-1996 by Wolf, Robert G. Philosophy Documentation Center,1998. Norlin Stacks, call number: BD573 .W855 1998.

 

Philosophy : a guide to the reference literature by Bynagle, Hans E. Libraries Unlimited Inc., 1997. Reference Department. Z7125 .B97 1997.

 

The collaborative bibliography of women in philosophy by Hutchings and William D. Rumsey, editors. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1997. Norlin Stacks B105.W6 C65 1997

 

A bibliography on reference and some related topics in analytical philosophy by Wulf Kellerwessel (ed.) Publisher: Peter Lang, 1996. Reference Department Z7128.R44 B53 1996.

 

Women philosophers : a bibliography of books through 1990 by Barth, E. M. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1992. Norlin Stacks Z7125 .B34 1992.

 

Deconstructionism, a bibliography compiled by Joan Nordquist. Reference and Research Service, 1992 Norlin Stacks B809.6 .N67 1992.

 

A bibliography of the philosophy of science, 1945-1981 by Blackwell, Richard J., Greenwood Press, 1983. Norlin Stacks Z7405.P74 B57 1983. This book is one of a series of books with different time periods. Search Chinook by title for the others.

 

The philosopher's guide to sources, research tools, professional life, and related fields by De George, Richard T.Regents Press of Kansas, c1980. Reference Department Z7125.D445.

 

Philosophy of religion : an annotated bibliography of twentieth- century writings in English by Wainwright, William J. Garland Pub., 1978. Norlin Stacks Z7821 .W34.

Dissertations

CU Digital Dissertations
Citations and beginning pages of all dissertations published nationwide in all subjects.

Web Pages

CU Philosophy Department

EpistemeLinks.com: Philosophy Resources on the Internet

American Philosophical Association

Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy