Philosophy

Facts and Background Information
Selected print and electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.
Books
Locate items in the library catalog and other libraries.
Articles
Use indexes to search for articles in journals, proceedings, etc.
Primary Sources
Websites
Recommended academic, professional, and learned societies sites, and more.
Contact a Librarian

Below are a few major, frequently used sources for the study of Philosophy. See also the research guides to Religion, Classics, and General Humanities.

Please consult with a reference librarian for directions to many more sources in your topic. Internet resources require a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users statement).

 

Facts and Background Information     [back to top]

Dictionaries

Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
[PRINT. Tisch Reference B804 .B52]

Dictionary of Philosophy
[PRINT. Tisch Reference B41 .L32]

Dictionary of Philosophy
[PRINT. Tisch Reference B41 .M38]

Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion: Eastern and Western Thought
[PRINT. Tisch Reference B41 .R43]

Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon
[PRINT. Tisch Reference B49 .P4]

Handbook of Philosophic Logic
[PRINT. Tisch Reference BC6 .H36]

Directory

Directory of American Philosophers
[PRINT. Tisch Reference B935 .D5]

Encyclopedias

Companion to Aesthetics
[PRINT. Tisch Reference BH56 .C65]

Companion to Epistemology
[PRINT. Tisch Reference BD161 .C637]

Companion to Ethics
[PRINT. Tisch Reference BJ1012 .C62]

Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology
[PRINT. Tisch Reference B41 .B3]

Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
[PRINT. Tisch Reference CB5 .B52]

Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen
[PRINT. Tisch Reference BL1005 .L4813]

Encyclopedia of Ethics
[PRINT. Tisch Reference BJ63 .E45]

Encyclopedia of Philosophy
[PRINT. Tisch Reference B41 .E5]

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Contains full content of the original 10-volume set on subject matters including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Also includes regularly added new articles, as well as editorially reviewed links to other sites and resources on the web.

Stanford Enclyclopedia of Philosophy
A dynamic reference work in which each entry is written and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. The Encyclopedia is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.

Find Books     [back to top]

These databases use Library of Congress subject headings:

Library Catalog How To Use

Boston Library Consortium Catalogs How To Use

Worldcat How To Use
Catalog records from thousands of North American libraries.

For more information on finding books, see Database Searching Tips (also available in PDF).

Find Articles     [back to top]

Philosopher's Index 1940- How To Use
An international index to philosophical journals, books, dissertations, and translations.

ATLA Religion Database 1949- How To Use
The American Theological Association's Religion Database covers journals, multi-author books, and book reviews in Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. This is the online edition of Religion Index One and Two, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion.

L'Année Philologique
Online edition of the annual bibliography of classical studies, containing, as of January 2003, entries from 1969-1999. Future updates will add both more recent entries as well as earlier volumes. Use in conjunction with printed volumes covering earlier years at Tisch Reference Z7016 .A5.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
An index of Western-language articles, monographs, and book chapters published since 1971.

International Medieval Bibliography. Brepols, 1967-
An international index to medieval topics (400-1500) in literature, language, history, archaeology, art, music, theater, Arabic and Islamic studies, and religion and philosophy. IMB covers 4,500 journals and over 5,000 miscellany volumes in 30 languages.

Expanded Academic ASAP How To Use
Multidisciplinary index to more than 1,500 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications, including national news and commentary. Coverage is from 1980 to current and is updated daily. Some full text is available.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Institute for Scientific Information, 1974- How To Use
Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the arts and humanities. Coverage from 1974. Part of Web of Science.

Electronic journals

Periodicals are listed in the library catalog (how to use). Holdings in all formats are unified in one record, and most entries for journals held in electronic format contain a hyperlink to the source; searches in the web-based catalog enable one to follow these links directly. A complete list of electronic journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic journals.

Many humanities/social sciences journals held in digital format are parts of Project Muse or JSTOR. Although these databases include search engines for the journals they contain, the indexes listed above are the most comprehensive and authoritative sources for the literature of the discipline, and frequently link directly to our electronic journals.

For more on how to find articles, see Database Searching Tips (also available in PDF).

Primary Sources     [back to top]

ArchivesUSA How To Use
Information about primary source materials from U.S. manuscript repositories, with detailed indexes of manuscript and other special collections.

Early American Imprints 1639-1819
An online collection reproducing every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1819 - the complete printed, non-serial source materials of American culture for the 17th and 18th centuries. Covers titles in the Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker bibliographies. Available also in microform: TISCH MICROFORMS F700.

Early English Books Online How To Use
Over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), comprising all known English language
books from the beginning of printing to 1700.

Websites     [back to top]

Tufts Department of Philosophy

The American Philosophical Association

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature

Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy

For more on how to find and evaluate websites, see How to Evaluate Web Sources.

Contact a Librarian     [back to top]

Christopher Barbour. Contact for questions about library collections.
Chao Chen (interim). Contact for reference questions and instruction requests.

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