Philosophy

Databases / Internet Resources / Course Guides

The following databases, websites, and course handouts may be helpful in beginning or continuing research on topics related to philosophy.  For further assistance with finding resources or information, please contact Benjamin Harris, liaison librarian for the Department of Philosophy.

Databases

Philosopher’s Index
Main index to scholarly publications (contains no full text).

Poiesis
Search the complete text of over 40 journals in philosophy studies; full-text is available for some titles.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Available in print in the library (10vols.), this online version of the encyclopedia is included as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Database. 

Humanities Abstracts
Indexes mostly scholarly journals in philosophy, religion, literature, and related areas with a small number of full-text titles.

L’Annee Philologique
Key classical studies index to books and scholarly articles provides coverage of ancient philosophy.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Full-text scholarly encyclopedia has lengthy articles and bibliographies; available on CD-ROM workstations near the Information Commons Help Desk.

Internet Resources

Trinity University Philosophy Department
Links to favorites of our own faculty, as well as course materials and other curricular items.

Philosophy Guide (Research Institute for the Humanities, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
One of the better collections of pointers to various sites of philosophic interest, this page also has links to many online editions of famous texts.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
While still in early stages of construction, this is "the first dynamic [philosophy] encyclopedia. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. Unlike static reference works which are fixed on the printed page or on CD-ROM and which often become outdated soon after they are published, this document constantly changes with the addition of new entries and the modification of existing entries. Consequently, you can expect the entries in this encyclopedia to be responsive to new research."

For more internet resources: Philosophy Internet Resources Guide

Course Guides

Prepared by librarians for specific courses, these course guides offer instructions for starting your research, drawing from reference sources, books in the regular collection, and online databases and internet resources.

PHIL 3321, Hellenistic Philosophy

PHIL, Ethics

PHIL, Existentialism