Philosophy
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Contains over bibliographic citations with author abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy. It offers complete coverage of all major articles from anthologies and books written in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French. Topics include all major fields of philosophy, including Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Logic (including Mathematics), Metaphysics etc.
Arts & humanities citation index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
A full text database containing over 75 philosophy
journals. The JSTOR archive does not include current issues.
Humanities index
Provides information in the following areas: art, archaeology and classical studies, dance, drama, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
International medieval bibliography
A bibliography of research on the European Middle Ages (c.450-1500), which has been published since 1968, including journal articles, scholarly notes and similar literature. The entries are drawn from the regular coverage of over 4,000 periodicals and from a total of 5,000 other works.
Browse all databases for Philosophy
Specialised Resources
For some topics you will need to consult specialist information sources.
Oxford handbook of continental philosophy resource
Encyclopedia of bioethics
resource
Great philosophers: a history of Western philosophy
Blackwell guide to metaphysics resource
Oxford handbook of epistemology resource


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