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Journal Indexes and Archives

Philosopher's Index 1940-present

  • Books and articles on ethics, aesthetics, social psychology, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language
  • Includes links to full text when available

JSTOR

  • Full-text, full-image archive of journals in a various humanities and social sciences disciplines, including many journals in philosophy
  • Some content back to the nineteenth century
  • Content excludes the most recent three to five years

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy

  • A comprehensive directory of online philosophical articles and books by academic philosophers

IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (1984-present)

Print Indexes

International Philosophical Bibliography = Répertoire Bibliographique De La Philosophie.
Louvain-la-Neuve: Editions de l’Institut supérieur de philosophie, Université catholique de Louvain, 1991. Print.

Brie, G. A. de. Bibliographia Philosophica.
Bruxellis: Editiones Spectrum, 1950. Print.

Indexes and Archives for Related Disciplines

International Medieval Bibliography

L'Année Philologique

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

DigiZeitSchriften

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Electronic and Print Journals at Penn State

Click here for a list of philosophy e-journals available at Penn State.

To find philosophy print journals at Penn State, try an Advanced Search in TheCAT using "philosophy" as Subject keyword, then choose "Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Current Periodicals" from the Location drop-down menu, then click on Search.

Books

The CAT

  • Find Books and Other Materials at Penn State


Past Masters

  • Largest collection of full-text electronic editions in philosophy in the world
  • Includes important works in the history of political thought and theory, religious studies, economics, classics, history, and German studies


Eighteenth Century Collections Online

  • Primary works from many eighteenth century philosophers, including:
  • Locke, Berkley, Hume, George Turnbull, Adam Gerard, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, George Campbell and James Burnett (Lord Monboddo)
  • French philosophical works by Jean-Jacque Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Julian Offray De La Mettrie, Montesquieu and Voltaire
  • German thought in the writings of Hermann Reimarus, Johann Lambert, Moses Mendelssohn, Christian Wolff, and Immanuel Kant.
  • Women philosophers including Mary Astell, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Marie Huber


Oxford Handbooks Online: Philosophy

  • Essays by the world's leading scholars on key issues in philosophy
  • Includes abstracts, introductory essays, reference guides, and recommended readings
  • Extensive links make the handbooks easy to navigate and easily discoverable, accessible and searchable


Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
(Monograph series)

Browsing Philosophy in the Stacks
B1-5802     Philosophy (General)
BC1-199    Logic
BD10-701  Speculative philosophy
BH1-301    Aesthetics
BJ1-1725   Ethics

Library of Congress (LC) Classification Outline

How to find materials NOT at Penn State.

Web Links

Mega-sites


Web sites for special topics


Internet libraries, research and reference works


Associations and societies for philosophy

Reference Sources

 

Philosophy - Reference Sources

  • Guides to the literature
  • Dictionaries
  • Encyclopedias
  • Biographical Sources
  • Bibliographies - Books
  • Bibliographies - Periodicals
  • Directories

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