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PHI200: Philosophy Colloquim
Spring 2008 - J. Connolly
reference contact: David Podboy x2913, IM: davidpodboy

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BACKGROUND: BEGINNING WITH ENCYCLOPEDIAS

General Philosophy Encyclopedias

Reference Source Reference Call Number
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ref B 51 .R68 1998
or online

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

ref B 51 .E53 2006
or online
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy ref B 41 .B53 2005
or online
Oxford Companion to Philosophy ref B 51 .O94 2005
or online
Blackwell Reference Online online
Cambridge Collections Online online
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ref CB 9 .N49 2005
or online
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy online
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
online

SPECIALIZED ENCYCLOPEDIAS

By Geographical Area:

Reference Source Reference Call Number
Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy ref B 41 .B79 2004
or online
Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy ref B 121 .E53 2001

Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy

ref B 126 .E496 2003
Edinburg Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy ref B 803 .E35 1999b
Companion to the Philosophers (Covers Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, etc.)
ref B72 .C595 1999

By Time Period:

Reference Source Reference Call Number
Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy ref B 163 .E53 1997
Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages B 721 .C54 2003
or online
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment ref B 802 .E53 2003

The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers

ref B1131 .D52 2000
Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers ref B1301 .D52 1999
Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers ref B1561 .D53 2002
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers
ref B 1615 .D53 2005

By School of Philosophy or Subject:

Reference Source Reference Call Number

Companion to the Philosophy of Language

ref P 106 .C5945 1997
or online
Companion to Feminist Philosophy ref HQ 1190 .C665 1998
or online
Companion to Metaphysics ref BD 111 .C626 1995
or online
Companion to the Philosophy of Mind ref BD 418.3 .C62 1994
or online
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics ref BH 56 .E53 1998
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics ref BJ 63 .E44 1998
Encyclopedia of Bioethics ref QH332 .E52 2004
Encyclopedia of Empiricism ref B 816 .B53 1998
Philosophy of Science: an Encyclopedia
ref Q174.7 .P55 2006
Sex from Plato to Paglia: a philosophical encyclopedia ref HQ 12 .S435 2006

FINDING BOOKS: USING THE FIVE COLLEGE LIBRARY SYSTEM

Search the Five College Library Catalog for books. Try searching first for SUBJECT KEYWORD, or, if this fails, try a KEYWORD search.

No luck? Search WorldCat for books outside of the 5-Colleges

FINDING ARTICLES & ESSAYS

Philosopher's Index 1940+

Humanities Abstracts 1983+

Arts and Humanities Search

JSTOR (Search full-text and older philosophy journals)

Project Muse - current issues

ATLA Religion Database 1949+

Humanities & Social Science Index Retrospective 1907-1984

WEB SITES

The Internet will contain interesting and useful information - BUT little real scholarship. Use these sources to supplement but NOT TO REPLACE those listed above. Here are a few good starting places:

Philosophy Department - Links of Interest (from Smith College)

American Philosophical Association

Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy

Episteme Links

Philosophy around the Web (Oxford University)

CITING SOURCES

Resource Website
Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper (Duke University) Click on appropriate link to see citation examples.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. ref LB2369 .G53 2003
Style Manuals & Citation Guides Smith College Libraries' web page with links

RefWorks
Bibliographic software designed to help researchers gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as to generate citations and bibliographies.

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