Use these for summaries of key thinkers, theories and concepts. See bibliographies often at the end of sections for a list of recommended readings. All the titles below are in the reference area on the main floor of the Library.

• Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. (London: Routledge, 1998).  

B 51 .R68 1998 REF (10 volume set) 

• The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy. Ed. Robert Audi. 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 

B 41 .C35 1999 REF

• The Oxford companion to philosophy. Ed. Ted Honderich. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). 
  B 51 .O94 1995 REF

• The Oxford dictionary of philosophy. Simon Blackburn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. B 41 .B53 1994 REF

Books

Philosophy books are generally kept in the B to BJ call number range on the third floor of the Library (except BF which is psychology). You may find the following items useful, all have bibliographies to help you find more resources on the same subject:

Oxford Handbook of ... series (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

• Oxford handbook of aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) at call number BH 56 .O94 2003 on the shelves on the 3rd floor
• Oxford handbook of epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) at BD 161 .O96 2002 on the shelves on the 3rd floor
• Oxford handbook of free will (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) at BJ 1461 .O94 2002 on the shelves on the 3rd floor
• Oxford handbook of practical ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) at BJ 1031 .O94 2003 on the shelves on the 3rd floor

Routledge philosophy guidebooks ... On the philosophers: Spinoza, Aristotle, Berkeley, Hegel, Heidegger, Hume, Kant, Locke, Mill, Plato, Rousseau and Wittgenstein.

• Find in the library: do a series search in the Library catalogue on "Routledge philosophy guidebooks" for a complete listing.

Re-reading the canon ... Feminist interpretations of: Dewey, Heidegger, Daly, Hume, Descartes, Sartre, Nietzche, Arristotle, Derrida, Kant, Kierkegaard, Foucault, Wollstonecraft, Arendt and de Beauvoir.

• Find in the library: do a series search in the Library catalogue on "re-reading the canon"

Blackwell philosophy guides ... Guides to the major topics of philosophy.

• Find in the library: do a series search in the Library catalogue on "Blackwell philosophy guides" for a complete listing.
• Find in the Library: do another series search on "Blackwell companions to philosophy"

Not forgetting the favourite Cambridge companion to... This popular series offers philosophy books on: Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Bacon, early Greek philosophy, feminism in philosophy, German idealism, Habermas, Arendt, Hegel, Heidegger, Thoreau, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Marx, Wollstonecraft, Mill, Nietzsche, Plato, Plotinus, Rousseau, Sartre, Schopenhauer, de Beauvoir, Spinoza and Wittgenstein.

• Find in the library: do a title search in the library catalogue "Cambridge companion to [insert name or topic from list above]. Eg. "Cambridge companion to Descartes"

Other Useful "Guide" Series...
Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy
Arguments of the philosophers

General philosophy
Ethics
Philosophy of science
Logic
Philosophy of mind
Online journals

General philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University)
This is a dynamic encyclopedia maintained and updated by a group of scholars in the field.  Entries are constantly changing but fixed editions are archived on a quarterly basis.

A dictionary of philosophical terms and names (Garth Kemerling) This site provides brief definitions of terms and concepts common to philosophy. Entries also provide a list of further readings and links to other philosophy web sites. The dictionary is part of a larger resource for philosophy students - click on the top bar to access, among other things, a study guide and information on key philosophers including summary of their thought and bibliography.

Episteme links: philosophy resources on the Internet.
(Thomas Ryan Stone, Computer courseware developer and philosopher, Rochester, NY)
This comprehensive, clearly organized and well maintained web site "is one of the best starting points for philosophy on the Internet" - Choice web supplement, 2001. Providing quick access to quality content it is not surprising this site receives over  "2,500 unique visitors per day". 

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Dr. Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana)
One of the largest collections of links to philosophy materials on the Web.  Includes links to electronic journals, mailing lists, newsgroups, dictionaries, bibliographies, associations, major philosophers and their electronic texts, etc.

Philosophy bites
(David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton; The Institute of Philosophy)
Podcasts (140 conversations) of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics, covering an extensive range, philosophical figures, and application to contemporary issues.

PHILWEB: philosophy resources on- & off-line, by Richard L.W. Clarke.
A pathfinder to print and on-line resources in all branches of philosophy.

Ethics

Ethics Updates
(Dr. Lawrence M. Hinman, Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego)  This site provides updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.  Includes subject-related links pertaining to Ethical Theory and Applied Ethics.

Environmental ethics
(Ron Epstein, San Francisco State University). This web site was originally created to support a course taught by Epstein. Links are clearly organized by topic. The site includes key resources in the field as well as original content written by Epstein.

Philosophy of science

PhilSci archive (Philosophy of Science Association and University of Pittsburg Centre for the Philosophy of Science) This site is a full text archive devoted to the philosophy of science. Use the search box to find scholarly articles or use the browse function to access by subject. Academics and researchers post their work to this site as a free service to facilitate scholarship and promote the discussion of new ideas. Submissions to this site are not refereed.

Logic

The logic machine: logic daemon & quizmaster (Colin Allen and Chris Menzel, Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University). This site provides "interactive logic software used for teaching introductory formal logic". The logic machine is intended as a companion to the book Allen, Colin and Hand, Michael Logic primer (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001) in the Library at call number BC 108 .A543 1991

Philosophy of mind

Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
(Dr. David Chalmers, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona).
Bibliography of recent work in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and on consciousness in the sciences.

Online journals

Directory of open access journals: philosophy
Links to 23 free online full text scholarly journals in philosophy.

Transcendent philosophy: an international journal for comparative philosophy and mysticism
This journal is published by the Institute of Iranian Studies in London. The web site provides full text from vol.1, no.1 June 2000.