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Philosophy Online Database

• Philosopher's Index

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• Academic Search Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• Humanities Index
• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• Reader's Guide Abstracts
  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.

Online Journals & Magazines

• Philosophy and Religion
• Buddhism
• Logic

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 religion
• 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

New Philosophy Books in the Library!

Print Journals & Magazines

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• International Philosophical Quarterly: IPQ - R
• Philosophical Quarterly - S and Online
• Philosophy and Public Affairs - L and Online
• Philosophy Today - S
• Philo: The Journal of the Society of Humanist Philosophers - R
• Review of Metaphysics - S

You can find more books through our Library Catalogue by searching under the following subject headings:

• Analysis (Philosophy)
Belief and Doubt
• Bioethics
• Causation
Determinism (Philosophy)
• Humanism
• Idea (Philosophy)
• Logic
• Metaphysics
• Ontology
• Philosophy, Ancient
• Philosophy and Religion
• Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy, Modern
• Theory of Knowledge (Philosophy)
• Truth

If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:

B: Philosophy - General
BC: Logic
BD 95-131: Metaphysics
BD 143-236: Epistemology
BH: Esthetics
BJ: Ethics
W 50: Bioethics

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
• The Lives and Opinions of Eminent 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

• Death - 26 lectures by Shelly Kagan from Yale University
• Introduction to Political Philosophy - 24 lectures by Steven B. Smith from Yale University
  

• American Philosophical Association
• Canadian Philosophical Association

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