Subject Guide to Philosophy

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If you need help, don't hesitate to ask at the reference desk, or contact Reference Librarians Linda Moore or Mark Maier.

Try these encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference guides to get started. Click on the link to see the call number.

Dictionaries:
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy Ref B41 .C35 1999
Dictionary of World Philosophy Ref B41 .I26 2001
The Oxford Companion to the Mind Electronic Resource

Encyclopedias:
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Electronic Resource
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Ref B51 .E53 2006 v.1 – v. 10

Bibliography:
A Bibliography of Philosophical Bibliographies Ref B53 .G83 1977

Citing Sources:
For Turabian formats see this website
For MLA format see MLA Style Manual Ref PN 147 .G444 1998

Moving to the next step: finding books

To find books in the Mossey Library, use the Mossey Library Catalog.

Use MeLCat to request books and audio-visual materials directly from other Michigan libraries over the web. Use OCLC World Cat to search the holdings of over 3000 libraries worldwide in a single search. You will have to use interlibrary loan to obtain copies of these books.

Continuing on: the best places to find articles

Project Muse: Full text of leading scholarly journals.

ArticleFirst: Indexes of articles from the content pages of journals.

Blackwell: Over 700 journals covering a wide range of subject areas, including international peer-reviewed titles, many published on behalf of scholarly and professional societies.

Academic OneFile: Offers full-text, peer-reviewed articles from leading journals around the world.

ATLA Religion: Offers access to religious and theological literature.

FirstSearch: A collection of over 60 databases from OCLC.

JSTOR: This database provides full-text coverage of more than 64 major language and literature journals. The journals have been digitized from their first volume. Each year another volume of recent issues is added to the collection.

Link to the Hillsdale College Philosophy Department