philosophy

Course Research Guides

Philosophy 256: Philosophy and Literature

Philosophy 263: Kierkegaard

Philosophy 385A: John Rawls and Justice

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Finding Books

• Annie - W&L catalog
• WorldCat - national catalog

Finding Articles

• Philosopher's Index  Index for journal- and book articles, including book reviews.
• ATLA Religion Index         "                                  "                                      "
• Humanities Research Guide  Listing of all databases in the humanities

Finding Background Information

• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (first revision)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (work in progress)
• Biographical Dictionaries of Philosophers: Search Annie under Subject for Philosophers -- Biography
• Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World

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Miscellaneous philosophy sites

Academic Info: Philosophy
Australasian Philosophy Network
Bioethics on the Web (National Institutes of Health gateway)
Episteme Links

Greek Philosophy Archive
Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet
Lycos
Philosophy Around the Web
Philosophy at Large
Philosophy in Cyberspace
Philosophy Pages (Dieter Köhler, ed.)
Philosophy Research Base
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: German Subject Catalogue: Philosophie (in German)
Yahoo! Philosophy

Associations, Organizations & Directories

American Philosophical Association
American Society for Aesthetics
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Association for Symbolic Logic
British Society for Philosophy of Science
Canadian Philosophical Association/Association Canadienne de Philosophie
Directory of Women Philosophers
FoLLI: the European Association for Logic, Language and Information
Institut Wiener Kreis
Kurt Gödel Society
Philosophy of Science Association
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (currently not connecting. 3/03)
Society for Women in Philosophy

 Philosophy departments and programs

Philosophy departments in France
Philosophy departments in Germany
Philosophy departments in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Philosophy departments in the United States (from the APA web site)

Research centers

The Bakhtin Centre (University of Sheffield)
Center for Advancement of Applied Ethics (Carnegie Mellon University)
Center for Bioethics/Bioethics.net (University of Pennsylvania)
Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh)
Center for the Study of Bioethics (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Center for the Study of Language and Information (Stanford University)
Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici)
Computational Epistemology Lab (University of Waterloo)
Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Georgetown University)
Laboratory for Applied Logic (Brigham Young University)
Philosophy Documentation Center (Bowling Green State University)