Davidson College Library   Research Guide for Philosophy 450

Advanced Philosophical Writing & Senior Thesis Professor Boyes Fall 2004 General Reference Works Directories & Biographies of Philosophers Bibliographies Indexes & Databases       Tools for Locating Books       Tools for Locating Articles Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). General Reference Works The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Ed. Robert Audi. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. Reference R 103 C178 1999 A Companion to Epistemology. Ed. Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa. Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1992. Reference R 121 C737 A Dictionary of Philosophy. Thomas Mautner. Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1996. Reference R 103 M459d Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Philip P. Wiener. 5 vols. New York: Scribner, 1973-1974. Reference R 901.9 D554 Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Stephen G. Post. 3rd ed. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004. Reference R 174.2 E56 2004 The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion. Ed. Stephan Schuhmacher and Gert Woerner. Trans. Michael H. Kohn et al. Boston: Shambhala, 1989. Reference R 291 L679-T Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2001. Reference R 170.3 E56 2001 Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. Susan Neiburg Terkel and Shannon Duval. New York: Facts on File, 1999. Reference R 170.3 E562 The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Paul Edwards. 8 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1967. Reference R 103 E56 The Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Mircea Eliade. 16 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Reference R 203 E562 A History of Western Ethics. Ed. Lawrence C. Becker. New York: Garland, 1992. Reference R 170.9 H673 The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Ed. Ted Honderich. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. Reference R 100 O98 The Oxford Companion to the Mind. Ed. Richard L. Gregory. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987. Reference R 128.2 O98 The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Simon Blackburn. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994. Reference R 103 B628o Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. 10 vols. London: Routledge, 1998. Reference R 103 R869 Directories & Biographies of Philosophers Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers. Ed. Stuart Brown et al. New York: Routledge, 1996. Reference R 921 B615 Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries A Descartes Dictionary. John Cottingham. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993. Little Library Stacks 194 D44c A Hegel Dictionary. Michael Inwood. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992. Reference R A Kant Dictionary. Howard Caygill. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995. Reference R 193 K16ca A Locke Dictionary. John W. Yolton. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993. Reference R 192 L81yy A Rousseau Dictionary. N.J.H. Dent. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992. Reference R 194 R86yd A Wittgenstein Dictionary. Hans-Johann Glock. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996. Reference R 192 W831g Directory of American Philosophers. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University, 1963- . Reference R 921 D59 Library has 1966/1967 to present. International Directory of Philosophy and Philosophers. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University, 1965- . Reference R921 I61 Library has 1972/1973 to present. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Ed. Ethel M. Kersey. New York: Greenwood, 1989. Reference R 921 K41w Bibliographies A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics. Ed. John Carman and Mark Juergensmeyer. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991. Reference R 016.174 B582 Bibliographie de la Philosophie / Bibliography of Philosophy. Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1954- . Little Library Bound Periodicals Note: Library has 1966-1988 only. Bibliography of Bioethics. Washington, DC: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, 1975- . Reference R 016.174 W235b Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. Comp. Karl H. Potter. Rev. ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983. Reference R 181.4 E56, 1983 Library has volume one only. Guide to Chinese Philosophy.. Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Wing-Tsit Chan. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978. Reference R 016.181 F949g International Medieval Bibliography. Leeds, U.K.: Univ. of Leeds, 1967- . Reference R 016.914 I61 Marxist Philosophy: A Bibliographic Guide. John Lachs. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, [1967]. Reference R 016.33 L138m Philosophical Books. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1960- . Little Library Current and Bound Periodicals Note: issues from the recent year only are available online. Resources in Ancient Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship in English, 1965-1989. Albert A. Bell, Jr. and James B. Allis. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1991. Reference R 016.18 B433r Indexes & Databases Tools for Locating Books | Tools for Locating Articles | Electronic Journal Collections Tools for Locating Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a dollar sign $.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war").     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Tools for Locating Articles Philosopher's Index (1940 to present) Indexes journal articles and books in philosophy and related fields. Note: Only one person can be logged into this database at any one time.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Philosopher's Index TRIAL DATABASE (expires 17 October 2004) (1940 to present) Indexes journal articles and books in philosophy and related fields.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. L'Année Philologique (500 B.C.E. to 800 C.E. [historical time period covered] ; 1969 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Includes citations to scholarly articles, books, conference proceedings, and essays; also includes book reviews. Covers all aspects of the Greco-Latin world, including literature, history, art, philosophy, religion, and archaeology. Note: To locate citations to articles and books from earlier years, consult L'Année Philologique in the Little Library Reference Collection (R 016.88 A613). To do a keyword search: Click on the "Full Text" button; this allows you to search all the words in each record. Please note that this is not a full-text database, however. Many of the journal titles in entries are abbreviated. To find the full name of a journal, go to the main search screen, click on "Other Criteria," select "Periodical," and enter the abbreviation.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *. Essay & General Literature Index Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. PCI: Periodical Contents Index (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic. Also try the following interdisciplinary databases: Academic Search Elite (1984 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. InfoTrac OneFile (1980 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also included citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use an exclamation point !. OmniFile Full Text Mega (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Electronic Journal Collections JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a plus sign +.     Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Tips & Further Help How to Identify a Scholarly Article How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources Research Planner (pdf document) Research Planner 2 (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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