Philosophy Resources

Books and Media

Earlham Libraries Catalog
Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).

WorldCat
The world's largest library catalog, covering books and other materials available in OCLC member libraries around the globe.

Articles

Philosopher's Index
Indexes and abstracts books and journals of philosophy and related fields, 1940 to present.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
Review articles of scholarly books and articles that deal with "theory", for want of a better word, including chapters on film studies and queer theories.

Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.

JSTOR
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Periodicals Archive Online
Full text of 425 journals and magazines covering all topics dating back to the 1800s. Coverage ends at 1995.

Project MUSE
Full text of over hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities dating back to the 1990s.

Reference

Blackwell Reference Online - Philosophy
Complete full text of 61 philosophy reference works from Blackwell Publishing. Examples include Companion to African Philosophy, Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Companion to Heidegger, Companion to Kant....

Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Online version of the 10-volume, 2nd edition of Macmillan's standard encyclopedia (2006) . An excellent starting point for research on topics related to philosophy.

Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Online version of the five-volume, 3rd edition of Macmillan's standard encyclopedia on bioethics (2004). A must for starting research on topics related to bioethics.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Online version of the six-volume reference set from Charles Scribner's (2004). An introduction to "how we think" about concepts as diverse as physics and communism.

Web Sites

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A scholarly and authoritative encyclopedia of philosophy.