Philosophy

Academic Liaison Librarian: Rosemary van Zijl
Academic Liaison Assistant: Clare Muddyman

Electronic Journals

  • Electronic Journals at York
    Provides links to an alphabetical list of full text electronic journals available at York, subject lists of full text and other electronic journals, publishers' collections of electronic journals, online newspapers and news services and directories of electronic journals.

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Databases and Datasets

  • MetaLib (York users only)
    A gateway to bibliographic databases, statistical datasets, electronic journals and other Web resources available to members of the University. Includes guides and links to help. Also allows cross-searching of resources, and Alerts. Login with your University username and password to access all of these features.
  • Philosopher's Index via ARC2 WebSPIRS
    The main bibliographic database for philosophy, indexing books, book chapters and journals, giving bibliographical references and abstracts.
  • Past Masters text databases
    Collection of electronic texts in philosophy, covering the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and philosophy of science, Germanic studies and sociology.
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    A dynamic (continually updated) reference work with an archive of fixed editions. Still under development

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Directories of philosophy resources

  • Boxmind - academic resource directory created by subject specialists, based in Oxford. Need to register to benefit from full facilities.
  • BUBL LINK: Philosophy - classified, searchable list of internet resources with brief descriptions. A nationally-funded service for the UK H.E. community, maintained by staff of Strathclyde University.
  • Intute: Arts & Humanities - an information gateway to quality assured resources on the Internet selected by a network of UK universities for academic use. Covers philosophy, religion, history and a range of arts and humanities subjects.
  • HERO subject oriented directories: Philosophy - comprehensive, searchable list of worldwide internet resources, with descriptions. A nationally-funded service for the UK H.E. community, maintained by HERO (Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK).

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Societies and other organisations

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Subject Arrangement

The following is a summary of the main subject divisions relevant to Philosophy as arranged in the Library. It is not a comprehensive list of all subjects covered.

APhilosophy
A 09History of Philosophy
A 10Metaphysics
A 11Ontology
A 11.1Existentialism
A 11.85Aesthetics
A 21Epistemology
A 23Freedom and necessity
A 26Consciousness and identity
A 28Mind
A 41Idealism
A 44Humanism
A 44.6Utilitarianism
A 49.7Rationalism
A 49.94Language
A 60Logic
A 64Mathematical logic
A 70Ethics
A 82Greek philosophy
A 84.1Plato
A 85.1Aristotle
A 88Stoicism
ADMedieval philosophy
AFRenaissance philosophy
AGModern philosophy, c.1600-
AHSeventeenth century
AJEighteenth century
AKNineteenth century
ALTwentieth century
BPsychology
B 0.1Philosophy of psychology
  
  
CReligion and theology
C 01Philosophy of religion
  
  
DSocial Sciences
D 0.1Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  
  
HPolitics
H 0.1Political theory
  
  
LArt
L 1Philosophy of art
  
  
QHistory
Q 01Philosophy of history
  
  
RScience
R 1Philosophy of Science
  
  
  
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