Guide to Selected
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| Arts & Humanities Search | 1980 to present. |
| JSTOR | Archives full-text contents of several hundred journals in several disciplines, including Philosophy. Some articles date to the 19th-century. JSTOR does not include articles from roughly the past 5 years - see Project Muse. |
| Philosopher's Index | Index to philosophy journals in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic and metaphysics as well as materials on philosophy of education, history, religion and science. |
| Project Muse | Recent (5-7 years) full-text articles from journals in several subject areas, including Philosophy. Search for archived issues in JSTOR or use Project Muse advanced search. |
| Wilson Humanities Abstracts | 1984 to present. |
| Wilson Select Plus | 1994 to present. |
| Find Books |
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Option 1 - Ames Library Catalog |
Search for books and other materials owned by IWU
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Option 2 - WorldCat |
A catalog of books and other materials worldwide.
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Philosophy Call Numbers
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B Philosophy (General) The Ames Library uses Library of Congress Classification. |
| Dictionaries & Encyclopedias |
| These resources provide general information, articles, and sometimes bibliographies relating to various aspects of philosophy research. Other encyclopedias and dictionaries for more specific subject areas can be found through Ames Library Catalog. |
| Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Philosophers |
REF B104.B56 2002 |
| Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd ed.) | REF B41.C35 1999 |
| A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names | A guide to technical terms and personal names often encountered in the study of philosophy. |
| Dictionary of Philosophy & Religion: Eastern & Western | REF B41.R43 1999 |
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment |
REF B802.E53 2003 |
| The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) | |
| Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | REF B51.R681998 |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| Handbooks & Style Guides |
| Blackwell Companion to Philosophy | REF B21.B56 1996 |
| Oxford Companion to Philosophy | REF B51.O941995 |
| Philosophy; A Guide to the Reference Literature | REF B72.B96 1997 |
| Writing Philosophy Papers | REF B52.7.S44 1999 |
| MLA Style Guides | IWU Writing Center |
| Bioethics |
| Bioethics Resources on the Web | National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (Georgetown U Kennedy Institute of Ethics) |
| National Institutes of Health Bioethics Resources on the Web | Listed resources provide background information and various positions on issues in bioethics. |
| PubMed | Over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals, back to the 1950s. Links to full text articles and other related resources. To limit to bioethics sources, choose Limits, then choose Bioethics under Subsets |
| Web Sites & Electronic Texts |
| Ethics Updates | Updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics. |
| EpistemeLinks.com | Philosophy Resources on the Internet. |
| Past Masters | CD contains complete electronic texts of the primary texts, published and unpublished, of major philosophers. Located in Ames Library, Lower Level Scholarly Workstation |
| Perseus Digital Library | One of the premier sites to find texts from and resources for doing research in the Classical era. |
| PHILWEB | A variety of resources, both 'off-line' (such as bibliographies, definitions, and surveys of theorists, regions and topics) and 'on-line' (links to relevant URLs). |
| Professional Associations |
| American Philosophical Association | |
| The Society for Women in Philosophy |
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