Pathfinder: Philosophy

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Web Sites

*Also see the library's pathfinder on Famous Philosophers

SCOPE:   The term philosophy refers to a particular persons beliefs and presuppositions about the world.  Philosophy deals with problems about certain areas of human activity as science, morality, art, literature, religion, and life. ( Iannone, Dictionary of World Philosophy) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline in locating library resources on this topic. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the materials available in the library, but as a selective sampling of resources.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with philosophy are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under the following subject headings:

Aesthetics
Philosophy
Theology
Philosophers
Ethics

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF BD 418.3.C62 1994 A Companion to the Philosophy of the Mind

REF B 41.I26 2001 Dictionary of World Philosophy

REF B803.E35 1999b The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy

REF BJ 63 .E54 2004 Ethics

REF B72.G74 1992 Great Thinkers of the Western World

REF B 41.K48 1993 Key Ideas in Human Thought

REF B791.B765 2003 Philosophical Dictionary

REF B 51.R68 1998 Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS (have the call number(s) BD 21)

Berlin, Isaiah, Sir. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Christian, James Lee. Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998.

Descartes, Rene. Philosophical Essays and Correspondence. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub; 2000.

Hudelson, Richard. Modern Political Philosophy. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Kraut, Richard. The Cambridge Companion to Plato. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Lee, Wendy Lynne. On Marx. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002.

Lipset, Seymour Martin. Political Philosophy: Theories, Thinkers, Concepts. Washington, D.C: CQ Press, 2001.

Wilshire, Bruce W. The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology,and Native American Thought. University Park, A: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of philosophy are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

• Philosophy

Open Access Journals in Philosophy

WEB SITES

Arguments and Their Evaluation
http://www.univnorthco.edu/philosophy/arg.html
How to accurately evaluate arguments and identify bad ones.

A Brief Guide to Writing Philosophy Papers
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/~rfield/guide.html
Standards to make your philosophy paper 'A' material.