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Index to resources on this page
Associations and Scholarly Organizations
American Philosophical Association (APA)
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/index.html
The main professional organization for philosophers in the United States and one of the largest philosophical societies in the world, with over 10,000 members. Founded in 1900. Not restricted to any particular philosophical school or orientation.Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA)
http://www.acpcpa.ca
The primary professional organization for Canadian philosophers. Founded in 1958. Publishes the quarterly journal Dialogue.Directory of American Philosophers
Published annually by the Philosophy Documentation Center. Roesch Library Reference B935.D598. (Also available in the Department of Philosophy office.)
A useful guide for information about Philosophy departments in the U.S.A. and Canada. Also contains information about Philosophy journals, publishers, and research support.Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP)
http://www.american-philosophy.org/
An organization devoted to research in the history of American Philosophy and to promoting original work in the spirit of that tradition.Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
http://www.spep.org/A professional organization devoted to supporting philosophy inspired by Continental European traditions. Committed to philosophical pluralism.
The Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP)
http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/SWIP/
A professional society that aims to promote and support women in philosophy. Founded in 1972.University of Dayton, Department of Philosophy web sites
http://artssciences.udayton.edu/Philosophy/ (College of Arts and Sciences web site, external visitors)http://academic.udayton.edu/philosophy/ (Department web site, internal users)
Guides to Research and Reference
The Little, Brown Handbook
Ed. H. Ramsey Fowler and Jane E. Aaron. Addison Wesley Longman, 2001 (8th ed.). Roesch Library Reference PE1112.F64 2001.
The primary handbook on academic writing and research used in UD's English courses.
Philosophy: A Guide to the Reference Literature
Ed. Hans E. Bynagle. Libraries Unlimited, 1997 (2nd ed.). Roesch Library Reference B72.B97 1997. Available to Roesch Library users electronically in netLibrary.An excellent, quite comprehensive resource. Offers detailed commentary on the strengths and limitations of the works cited.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries: General
The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy
Ed. N. Bunnin and E. P. Tsui-James. Blackwell, 1996. Roesch Library Reference B21.B56 1996.The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Ed. Robert Audi. Cambridge, 1999 (2nd ed.). Roesch Library Reference B41.C35 1999.Along with the Oxford Companion to Philosophy (see below), the most highly regarded contemporary dictionary of philosophy. (Dr. Dan Fouke wrote the entry on Pascal.)
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Ed. Paul Edwards. Macmillan, 1967. 8 volumes. Roesch Library Reference B51.E5.
Until the publication of the Routledge Encyclopedia (see below), the most widely used general reference source in Philosophy. Some entries are now out of date.Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophie
Joachim Ritter. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1971-. OhioLINK B43.R53.
A German encyclopedia of the history of philosophical terms. Volumes A-V currently completed.The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Ed. Ted Honderich. Oxford, 1995. Roesch Library Reference B51.O94 1995.The Oxford English Dictionary
http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtlStill the primary dictionary of the English language for scholarly purposes.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Ed. Edward Craig. Routledge, 1998. 10 volumes. Roesch Library Reference B51.R68 1998. Also on-line at http://www.rep.routledge.com:80/index.htmlAn excellent general reference source in Philosophy (see also The Encyclopedia of Philosophy above). The on-line version is particularly well designed.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Ed. Edward Zalta. http://plato.stanford.edu/ Initiated in 1995.
A dynamic on-line encyclopedia. Entries are quite substantive and are revised periodically to incorporate new research. Authors and editors are prominent figures in their fields. Some entries not yet posted.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Bibliographies: Fields, Periods, Schools
Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers
Ed. Stuart Brown, Diane Collinson, and Robert Wilkinson. Routledge, 1996. Roesch Library Reference B104.B5 1996.
A very comprehensive work with an impressive international scope (in contrast with many philosophical reference works).
Blackwell Companions series
An excellent series of reference works, including volumes on aesthetics, African-American philosophy, applied ethics, bioethics, cognitive science, continental philosophy, epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy in the Middle Ages, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, political philosophy, and world philosophies. Roesch Library holds all of the volumes in this series.
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought
Ed. David Miller. Blackwell, 1987. Roesch Library Reference JA61.B57.
An excellent resource for Western political philosophy.
Cambridge Companions series
An important series of scholarly volumes on individuals, areas, and periods in philosophy, as well as in other Humanities disciplines (especially literature, music, and religion). Roesch Library holds almost 200 volumes in this series.
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
Compiled by David Chalmers, Australian National University. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/biblio.html
A comprehensive, on-line bibliography of recent work in philosophy of mind. Updated periodically. Well organized. Contains over 5,000 entries.Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Ed. Tom Bottomore, et al. Blackwell, 1991 (2nd ed.). OhioLINK HX27.D5 1991.
One of the best available resources in English for students of Marxism. Roesch Library carries the earlier 1983, Harvard University Press edition.
A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/
An online dictionary that contains brief definitions of key philosophical terms. Also includes useful links to other online and print resources.
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Ed. Warren T. Reich. Macmillan, 1995 (rev. ed.). 5 volumes. Roesch Library Reference QH 332.E52 1995.
The Encyclopedia of Ethics
Ed. L. Becker and C. Becker. Routledge, 2001 (2nd ed.). 3 volumes. Roesch Library Reference BJ63.E45 2001.
The primary general reference source in print for philosophical ethics. A superb work.Greek Philosophical Terms
Francis Edward Peters. New York University Press, 1967. Roesch Library Reference B49.P4.
Aimed at the level of intermediate students of ancient Greek.
The Greek Philosophical Vocabulary
J. O. Urmson. Duckworth, 1990. OhioLINK B49.U75 1990.
Usefully complements the Peters volume above. Presumes some knowledge of ancient Greek.
A Kant Dictionary
Ed. Howard Caygill. Blackwell, 1995. OhioLINK B2751.C38 1995.
Published in the Blackwell Philosopher Dictionary series, which also includes volumes on Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Wittgenstein.
Philosophy Research Base: History of Philosophy
http://www.erraticimpact.com/history_index.htm
Supplies bibliographical references to books and online resources in many areas of the history of philosophy.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/Humanities Abstracts
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/huaiCites articles dating back to 1984 from 500 periodicals across fields in the Humanities. Includes links to electronic full texts, where available.
J-STOR
http://www.jstor.org/An electronic archive of important scholarly journal articles. Allows viewing or downloading of full-text articles in more than twenty major philosophy journals.
OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
http://journals.ohiolink.edu/local-cgi/entry.pl
Up-to-date electronic archive of full-text articles from many journals in the Humanities. Includes over thirty philosophy journals. An excellent resource.
Oxford Scholarship Online
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/philosophy/subject_home.html
A new online resource, to which Roesch Library subscribes, that allows users to search and view full text editions of many of Oxford University Press's holdings in core areas of philosophy from the last ten years. Some classic works from the 1960s to 1980s are also included. A valuable research tool.
The Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopperHosted by the Department of Classics at Tufts University. One of the premier web sites for research on the ancient world. Also includes texts from the English Renaissance, among other resources.
Philosopher's Index
Go to Roesch Library's database list <http://library.udayton.edu/research/article/alpha.php> and click on Philosopher's Index.
One of the most widely used databases to locate books and journal articles in contemporary philosophy. Covers more than 300 journals from 1940 to the present. Searchable by title, author, subject, and key words.
Roesch Library databases for philosophy
http://library.udayton.edu/research/article/subject_guides/db.php?id=39
OhioLINK's metasearch for philosophy
http://www.ohiolink.edu/resources/dblist.php?by=subject&search=phi
WorldCat
Go to Roesch Library's database list <http://library.udayton.edu/research/article/alpha.php> and click on WorldCat.
WorldCat records any type of material catalogued by OCLC member libraries. It contains more than 35 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world.
Other Philosophy Resources on the Internet
EpistemeLinks.com
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Includes over 16,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet.
Ethics Updates
Ed. Lawrence M. Hinman, University of San Diego. http://ethics.sandiego.edu/
An extensive and useful on-line collection of introductory- and intermediate-level materials in ethics and social philosophy. Also contains links to audio and video materials.Factasia Logic
http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/logic/index.htmOne of the better logic sites available online.
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
Ed. Peter Suber, Earlham College. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htmA comprehensive general collection of links to on-line materials in Philosophy. Not updated since February 2003, but still quite useful.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University Medieval Studies Program)
http://labyrinth.georgetown.eduEasily searchable site for electronic resources in medieval studies.
Other Humanities Resources on the Internet
HyperHistory OnLine
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.htmlHyperHistory presents 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
Voice of the Shuttle (University of California at Santa Barbara)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/Managed by Alan Liu, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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June 30, 2008