Course Guides: Philosophy
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PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:
SUGGESTED DATABASES:
- Academic Search Complete - Provides full-text articles from more than 5,500 multi-disciplinary, scholarly journals and publications.
- Biography Resource Center - Provides biographies, magazine articles, images, and website links for more than 900,000 people; searchable by name, occupation, etc.
- JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive - Provides a multi-disciplinary archive of scholarly journals and other resources across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
- Oxford Reference Online - Provides full-text access to many subject dictionaries and encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and more. Uses a unique login; see RPCC Library Services under RPCC Support in Moodle, or stop by the Library for more information.
- Religion and Philosophy Collection - Provides full-text coverage of over 300 journals pertaining to religious history, theology, and philosophical studies.
Please note that when accessing the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to login.
SELECTED E-BOOKS:
eBook Collection from EBSCOhost is our largest provider of ebooks (electronic copies of printed books PDF format), available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. eBook Collection has an easy-to-use search interface. You will be prompted to login with your 12-digit Library User ID to access these e-books from off-campus. Please see our Tutorials on eBook Collection from EBSCOhost for more information.
- A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, 1999, by Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro, Eds.
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy, 3rd Edition, 2005, by Jonathan Ree and J. O. Urmson, Eds.
- Ethics, 1998, by Piers Benn.
- Fifty Major Philosophers, 2nd Edition, 2006, by Diane Collinson.
- Logic: An Introduction, 2006, by Greg Restall.
- The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 1995, by Ted Honderich, Ed.
Visit our eBook Collections for links to eBook Collection from EBSCOhost and other e-book collections. Please note that books that are still protected by copyright may not be available online in full-text from the free sources.
LOCATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY:
SUBJECT-related topics can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:
- B1 to B5802 - Philosophy (General).
- B69 to B99 - General works.
- B108 to B5802 - By period, including philosophers and schools of philosophy.
- B5800 to B5802 - Modern. By religion.
- BC1 to BC199 - Logic.
- BC60 to BC99 - General works.
- BJ1 to BJ2836 - Ethics.
- BJ71 to BJ1185 - History, including individual ethical philosophers.
- BJ1188 to BJ1295 - Religious ethics.
- BJ1518 to BJ1697 - Individual ethics. Character. Virtue.
- BL1 to BL2790 - Religions.
- BL51 to BL65 - Philosophy of religion.
SELECTED BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY:
- Concise Routledge Encyclopdia of Philosophy, 2000.
Call number: B 51 .C58 2000 REF, also available as an ebook from eBook Collection on EBSCOhost. - Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
Call number: BJ 63 .E44 1998 REF, in 4 volumes. - Exploring the Philosphy of Religion, 5th Ed.
Call number: BL 51 .S658 2001 - Historical Introduction to Philosophy, 4th Ed.
Call number: BD 21 .H22 2001 - Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic
Call number: BC 38 .T86 2000 - World Philosophers and Their Works
Call number: B 104 .W67 2000 REF, in 3 volumes.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "A Peer-Reviewed Academic Resource," this site, hosted by the Philosophy Dept. at Univ. of Tennessee at Martin, offers different search options to access its original articles.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, hosted at Stanford University, this site also offers extensive peer-reviewed articles.