This guide lists selected online, electronic and print information sources available to Kwantlen Faculty, students and staff. For a more extensive list of print resources, see our Philosophy guidepost. Check the Library Catalogue to find additional resources at KUC.

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Background Information
• Citation and Style Guides

• Web Resources
• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
• Associations & Societies

Journal & Article Indexes

Background Information

Philosophy Online Database

• Philosopher's Index

Related Online Databases

• Academic Search Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• Humanities Index
• JSTOR
• Reader's Guide Abstracts
• Social Sciences Full-text

TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up an alert for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. For help with this, see our Search Alert guide.

Important Print Resources

• Brief history of philosophy: from Socrates to Derrida
• Columbia history of Western philosophy
• Companion to epistemology
• Companion to the philosophers
• Concise encyclopedia of the philosophy of rn eligio
• Concise Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy
• Dictionary of philosophy and religion : Eastern and Western thought
• Encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion : Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen
• Encyclopedia of ethics
• Illustrated brief history of Western philosophy
• Key ideas in human thought
• Man, Myth & Magic: the illustrated encyclopedia of mythology, religion and the unknown
• New dictionary of the history of ideas
• Oxford dictionary of philosophy

Web Resources

Online Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Tutorial - Internet Philosopher

Would you like to learn how to use the Internet for philosophy? Use this interactive tutorial to improve your Internet research skills.

• British Academy Portal: Philosophy
• BUBL Information Service: Philosophy
• BUBL Information Service: Philosophy of Mind
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Episteme Links
• Ethics Updates
• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
• Individual Philosophers
• Major World Philosophers
• Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• MindPapers: Bibliography of the Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy around the web
• Philosophy Pages
• Philosophy Research Base: Topics in Philosophy
• PHILWEB
• Project Gutenberg
• P-Search: Customized Philosophy Search Engine
• Texts from Early Modern Philosophy
• Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy

TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you.

• Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Philosophical Lexicon
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Reference Online

Association & Societies

Citation Styles

• American Philosophical Association
• Canadian Philosophical Association
• Philosophical Associations and Societies

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards