PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION RESEARCH GUIDE

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REFERENCE

Printed Sources

The following is a list of major reference sources available in the Reference Room:

Philosophy

  • Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    Ref B41.C45
  • Bunnin, Nicholas, and E. P. Tsui-James, eds. The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
    Ref B21.B56
  • Grayling, A. C., ed. Philosophy: A Guide Through the Subject. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
    Ref BD21.P468
  • Honderich, Ted, ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
    Ref B51.O94
    also available online
  • Martinich, A. P., and David Sosa, eds. A Companion to Analytic Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.
    Ref B808.5.C555


Religion

  • Bowker, John W., ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    Ref BL80.2.C334

  • Fahlbusch, Erwin, ed. The Encyclopedia of Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans, 1999.
    Ref BR95.E8913

  • Freedman, David Noel, ed. Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans, 2000.
    Ref BS440.E44

  • Glassé, Cyril. The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002.
    Ref BP40.G42

  • McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, ed. Encyclopaedia of the Quran. Leiden: Brill, 2001.
    Ref BP133.E53

  • Oxtoby, Willard G., ed. World Religions: Western Traditions. 2nd ed. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2002.
    Ref BL80.2.W66

On-line Sources

Here you may find a list of pertinent on-line reference resources.

  • Encyclopedia Britannica gives access to basic reference information.

  • Oxford Reference Online contains dictionaries and other quick reference sources, including quotations, maps, timelines, and illustrations. It also contains subject specific sources, such as The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.

    Note: the links mentioned above work only when you are on-campus. To use these resources from off-campus, start from the databases webpage

 

BOOK SEARCHING

Most of the books on philosophy can be found on the shelves under section B in the Library of Congress Classification System. In particular, BC is devoted to logic, BH to aesthetics, and BJ to ethics. Books on religion in general may be found under BL, and the main religions have their own specific subclass: BM is Judaism, BP is Islam, and BR is Christianity.

The Library catalog allows different kind of searches, including Subject Keyword and Subject Browse. A Subject Keyword search will retrieve all the subject strings containing the word you searched for. A Subject Browse search will lead to the controlled subject headings list. Determining which "controlled" subject headings are established for aspects of a topic is an important step in finding relevant material. You may want to browse on the broader subject (e.g. philosophy, religion) to find out what’s available in the Library.

Some examples of official subject headings and heading patterns are listed below:

Books on Single Authors or Philosophers

The subject search allows the retrieval of books on specific authors. The search term should be built in the following form:

Last name, First name
e.g. Kant, Immanuel

 

JOURNALS

The library does not subscribe to print journals in this field. A large collection of electronic journals is available through library databases such as JSTOR and EBSCO (Academic Search Premier).

Here is a sample of the most important full-text titles, directly accessible through Journals, A to Z:

Philosophy

Religion

 

PHILOSOPHY ON THE WEB

 

RELIGION ON THE WEB

 

 

Last updated: 22-4-2009