Philosophy
A research guide: books, articles, web sites, & videos
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Reference Books—A Selection
Reference
books provide a good starting point for your research. Reference items are
located in the Library’s Reference collection, behind the Reference Desk on the
Top Floor of Spangler.
Bibliographies
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ARBA In-depth: Philosophy & Religion. R 016.1 A161i
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A Bibliography of
Christian Philosophy and Contemporary Issues. R 016.201 M163 vol. 2
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A Bibliography of
Philosophy in Catholic Thought 1900-1964. R 016.201 M163 vol. 1
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Cross-Currents of
Jungian Thought: An Annotated Bibliography. R 016.15019 D996c, 1991
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A Guide to Philosophical Bibliography and Research
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Philosophy: A Guide to the Reference
Literature. R 016.1 B994p
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Resources in
Ancient Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship in English, 1965-1989. R 016.18 B433r, 1991
Dictionaries
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The Cambridge Dictionary of
Philosophy. R 103 C1442d,
1999
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Dictionary of
Asian Philosophies. R 181.003 N299d, 1978
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A Dictionary of
Existentialism. R 111.103 W776c, 1960
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Dictionary of
Existentialism. R 142.7 D554, 1999
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Dictionary of
Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers. R 192.03 D5616n, 2002 vols. 1-2
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Dictionary of Philosophical Concepts. R 103 P485d, 1977
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A Dictionary of
Philosophy. R 103 L131d
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A Dictionary of
Philosophy. R 103 D5544p
· Dictionary of Philosophy and
Psychology. R 103 D5616, 1998 2
vols.
· Dictionary
of Twentieth Century British Philosophers. R 192 D5616t, 2005 vols. 1-2
· Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon. R 103
P481g, 1967
· Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard’s Philosophy. R
198.9 W322h
· Historical Dictionary of
Logic. R 160.9 G288h, 2006
· A Latin-English Dictionary of St. Thomas Aquinas:
Based on the Summa Theologica and Selected Passages. R 473.2 T454d
· Spinoza Dictionary. R 103 S758R, 1951
Encyclopedias
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A Companion to
Epistemology. R 121 C7381e
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Continuum
Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. R 192.03 C7679e, 2006 vols. 1-4
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Encyclopedia of
Aesthetics. R 111.85 E193a, 1998 4 vols.
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Encyclopedia of
Asian Philosophy. R 181.003 E193a
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. R 940.25 E197e, 2003
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. R 100 R869, 1998 10 vols.
Handbooks
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Cambridge History
of Later Greek & Early Medieval Philosophy. R 182 A735c, 1967
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Cambridge History
of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. R 190.9 C1444h 2 vols.
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Constructing a
Life Philosophy: Opposing Viewpoints. RCT 100 C111, 2002
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Handbook of
Western Philosophy. R 190 P247h, 1989
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Key Thinkers in
Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. R 401 K5207t
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Masterpieces of
World Philosophy. R 100 M194m, 1990
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Philosophy: A
Guide to the Reference Literature. R 016.1 B994p, 2006
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Routledge History
of Philosophy. R 190.9 R7647h, 1997 10 vols.
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Socratic Logic. R
160 K92s, 2005
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World Philosophers and Their Works. R 109
W8937p 3 vols.
Reference Resources Online
Full-text. Brings together
100 dictionaries and other reference books in various subjects into one searchable
database. Included under “Religion and Philosophy” are the following:
dictionaries: The Oxford Companion to Philosophy and Oxford Dictionary of
Philosophy.
To access: Library homepage >
Books > Oxford Reference Online
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
Full-text, online searchable
encyclopedia. Includes entries on applied ethics in multiple disciplines.
To access: Library homepage >
Quick Reference > Encyclopedias > Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
eBooks
Full-text ebook
database. Search among 15,000 ebooks from multiple disciplines, including
reference books, other nonfiction, and fiction—including books about children’s
literature Search by keyword, title, or author.
To access: From the library
homepage, click on Books, and then select NetLibrary.
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Use an online research database to
find articles in scholarly journals, general magazines, and newspapers. ·
To access the databases below, from
the Library’s Articles in
Databases page, select the Philosophy
category, or choose from the A-Z index near the top of the page. ·
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Recommended Databases
Humanities
International Complete
Covers
articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including
poems, fiction, photographs, paintings, and illustrations—all in the
disciplines of the humanities.
MLA
International Bibliography
Citations only. Catalogs books and
articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Updated
10 times per year.
Oxford
Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library of the full text of over 1,350
Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political
Science, and Religion. Coverage includes the following areas of philosophy:
Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, General History of Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy
of Mathematics, Metaphysics/Epistemology, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of
Language, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and
Philosophy of Science.
After selecting this database, choose the database
menu for Philosopher's Index and click on the 'Start Searching' button. Please remember to click on the 'logout' link
once finished. Covers the areas of
ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and
metaphysic logic as well as the philosophy of law, religion, science, history,
education, and language.
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A search tip: In this database, it’s a good idea to type a hyphen after the subject
or author to focus your search results. This database is structured such that
entries with a hyphen afterwards are determined to have significant importance
to the entry.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
The collection covers such topics as
world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history,
epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy
and the history of philosophy from over 290 journals.
Finding
Periodicals in this Library
Listed below are some philosophy periodicals available in the ODU
Library.