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Philosophy - Selected Sources
General Reference Works
The Dictionary of Philosophy
The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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Dictionary of Continental Philosophy
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Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas
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Dictionary of World Philosophy
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Routledge Dictionary of Philosophy
Strong in logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of religion.
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The Encyclopedia of Philosophy 10-Volume Set.
Comprehensive, containing various philosophical subjects and compiled by a board of scholars headed by Donald Borchert.
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Comprehensively covers areas of philosophy not previously considered as part of the Anglo-American academic mainstream (e.g., feminism, Asian philosophy, Islamic philosophy).
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Dictionary of Untranslatables: a Philosophical Lexicon
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Thinking and Writing about Philosophy
Covers all stages of reading, analyzing, / responding to philosophical texts and arguments. Full coverage of research & documentation.
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Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy
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Philosophical Dictionary
A dictionary of modern philosophy.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Provides detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.
The Columbia Companion to Twentieth-century Philosophies
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Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Post-humanism
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American Philosophy: an Encyclopedia
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New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Branches of Philosophy
A New History of Western Philosophy
From its origins to the late 20th century.
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Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
Introductions to the branches, themes, and concepts in Asian philosophy. (See also Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy B121 .C66 1997 Reference).
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Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
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Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy
Major periods, thinkers and central concepts in Chinese philosophy and the history of Confucianism (classical to the 20th century).
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Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
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An Introduction to Indian Philosophy
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Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy
Pilosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity. Also a resource for obscure thinkers and concepts. Chronology of classical philosophy.
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Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy
Comprehensive overview of central movements, authors, and themes in continental philosophy.
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The History of Continrntal Philosophy
This first comprehensive history of the continental tradition of philosophy is divided chronologically and thematically, into 8 volumes.
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Covers all aspects of culture, politics, science and philosophy from 1670 to the early 1800s.
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Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies
Cover both the Anglo-American analytic and European continental traditions.
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The Handbook of Western Philosophy
Deals with Anglo-Saxon philosophical tradition. Major sections: Meaning and Truth; Theory of Knowledge; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Mind; Moral Philosophy and Art and Religion. A glossary of philosophical terms. Chronologiesof enlightenment and modern philosophy are provided.
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Historical Dictionary of Existentialism
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Understanding Phenomenology
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Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
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Historical Dictionary of Husserl's Philosophy
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A Companion to Metaphusics
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Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology
Provides overviews of the most important theories, thinkers, ideas and concepts in metaphysics and ontology.
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The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time
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The Oxford Companion to the Mind
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A Companion to Aesthetics
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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Covers individuals, concepts, periods, theories, issues and movements in the history of aesthetics from ancient up to the present. BJ63 .E46 1999 Reference
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Encyclopedia of Ethics.
For quick reference, this work serves as a dictionary-like, general introduction to ethics with terms and movements of the field.
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Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society
Ethical, theological and political influences: "Western society continues to be deeply indebted to the Judeo-Christian tradition" (intro)
Ethics
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A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion
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Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists
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Feminist philosophies A-Z
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Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language
Language, Metaphysics & Ontology; Language & Mind; Truth & Meaning; Language & Logic; Formal Semantics; Pragmatics & more.
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Philosophy of Language A-Z
This dictionary introduces readers to the main theories, problems, figures and arguments in the philosophy of language.
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Political Philosophy: what it is and why it matters
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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy
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Political Philosophy A-Z
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The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
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Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Language A-Z
This dictionary introduces readers to the main theories, problems, figures and arguments in the philosophy of language.
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The Philosophy of Literature
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The Philosophy of Science: an Encyclopedia
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Philosophy of Science: Key Concepts
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics
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Individual Philosophers
(Look up the philosopher as “subject” in the catalogue)
Historical Dictionary of Husserl's Philosophy
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The Oxford handbook of Nietzsche
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The Deleuze and Guattari dictionary
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Philosophy on the WWW
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Episteme Links: Philosophy Resources on the Internet [Gateway]
Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base.
Integrates text resources with the best online resources in all philosophical genres and their related fields.
Philosophy in Cyberspace [Gateway]
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet [Gateway]
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.
Internet Philosopher.
Interactive tutorial for learning how to use the Internet for philosophy.
Philosophy Pages
Western philosophical tradition, including: Dictionary of Philosophical Names and Terms; survey of the History of Western Philosophy; Timelines for intellectual figures; Summary treatment of elementary principles of logic, etc.
PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy
Database that currently holds 200,000 items, over 60 percent of which are articles. Ability to create an account
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Essay-length articles on various aspects, themes and figures in philosophy. Articles written by philosophers who have published refereed articles on their respective topics. Contains substantial articles on topics in philosophy.
The Ism Book
an online dictionary of philosophy.
Voice of the Shuttle Philosophy Page.
Yahoo: Philosophy.
Electronic Books (UofT)
look up these books by title in the catalogue and click on “Connect to Resource”.
For more please go to “Best research resources for Philosophy”
(http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRsubjectresults_cms.cfm?subject_id=68&T=R)
A Kant Dictionary.
Thomas Aquinas: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives .
The Claim to Universality of Modernity and its Relation with Occidental Rationality: A study of Juergen Habermas's Philosophy of Modernity.
Early Medieval Philosophy (480-ll50): an Introduction Rev. ed., 2nd ed.
Ancient Philosophy of the Self
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism.
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy.
Essays deal with the most important topic areas in philosophical logic
Modern Philosophy: the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Dictionary of World Philosophy.
(available in print B41 .I26 2001 Reference)
A Companion to Philosophical Logic .
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas.
The Philosophers.
v. 1. George Berkeley, Letters; v. 2. F.H. Bradley, Correspondence; v. 3. The correspondence of Adam Ferguson; v. 4. The letters of David Hume; v. 5. David Hume, New letters; v. 6. Correspondence from the Past Masters edition of The complete works & select correspondence of Henry Sidgwick; v. 7. Adam Smith, Correspondence; v. 8. Life & letters of Herbert Spencer.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.
Encyclopaedia Judaica.
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Encyclopedia of Ethics.
Philosophy in Late Antiquity.
Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century. Book 1, New waves of philosophical Inspirations.
Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology.
Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind .
The Founders of Western Thought: the Presocratics: a Diachronic Parallelism between Presocratic Thought and Philosophy and the Natural Sciences.
Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy
Socratic and platonic political philosophy: practicing a politics of reading
Electronic Databases (UofT)
Philosopher's Index
A major source for scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. It contains several hundred thousand bibliographic citations.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (CD-ROM only at E.J. Pratt Library)
Comprehensive resource containing articles from all continents, all periods and cultures, that cover Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Quarterly updates and additions.
Research Guide to Philosophy (Kelly Library, St. Michael’s College)
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Respected resources (print and electronic formats), chosen and evaluated by scholars including published sources such as books (including specific chapters within a book), journals, and databases, and unpublished archives and data.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in over 1,400 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals from 1975 to the present.
ATLA Religion Database
The American Theological Library Association (ATLA)Religion Database is a major international index for the scholarly study of religion. All major religious faiths are represented.
British Humanities Index
Covers 320+ humanities journals, weekly magazines, and newspapers from the UK and other English-speaking countries.
Cambridge Histories Online
Online version of over 300 volumes of the Cambridge Histories book series published since 1960. Covers the history of the ancient and modern world, literature, language and linguistics, philosophy and religion, political thought and more.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
Full-text of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
