Philosophy

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a comprehensive reference resource covering the philosophical canon and philosophy from all continents and all periods. It contains 2,053 entries (from 500 to 19,000 words in length) contributed by 1,264 leading experts in 36 countries.

First edition of 1998.

Full-text editions primarily in the field of philosophy, but also included are history of science, economics, literature, political science, religion, and sociology. Original language texts are available in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, and Latin, as well as in English translation. Among the authors included are Aquinas, Aristotle, Austen, Austin, Ayer, Bentham, Berkeley, Davidson, Descartes, Dewey, Dickens, Eliot, Engels, Fichte, Hegel, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Machiavelli, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Peirce, Plato, Santayana, Schopenhauer, Sidgwick, Spinoza, Stith Thompson, Wittgenstein, Wollstonecraft, and Yeats.

500 B.C. - 1950 A.D.

Fully indexed, cross-searchable database of about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes subject reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and science.

Includes latest editions of reference works published in recent years.

Includes over 100 texts by major philosophers and political thinkers from ancient Greece to the 19th century--Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, many 18th and 19th century English philosophers (Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill, et. al.), and others.

NOTE: this is an older version of Past Masters which does not contain new, added content. Please see the InteLex version for our complete holdings of electronic texts from Past Masters.

500 B.C. - 1900 A.D.

A bibliography of recent work in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and on consciousness in the sciences.

Covers mostly "papers and books from the last few decades, with density of coverage increasing with proximity to the present."

A refereed, open access encyclopedia with in-depth articles on a random array of several hundred philosophical topics, most with a Western and analytic perspective.

Latest quarterly edition.

The Voltaire électronique database is a collection of electronic documents each containing an individual work by Voltaire. The documents are grouped together in volumes. The volume structure corresponds to the structure set out in the Oxford Edition Provisional Table of Contents. The database includes all the material within these works with the exception of the editorial material in non-Oxford editions and in those Oxford editions which are in the process of being re-edited (volumes 2, 7, 48, 53-55, 59, and 81-82). Authorial notes, prefaces, dedications, commendations and other secondary matter are featured.

Provides full text searching across current, recent, and back issues of over 100 journals, book series, conference proceedings, and other publications in applied ethics, philosophy, religious studies, and related disciplines. Complete full text of articles is viewable online for the 49 of them subscribed to by U-M, including The Journal of Philosophy, The Monist, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, and The Review of Metaphysics. (Provides citations and abstracts only for articles from the remaining 54 titles.)

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The CogNet Library is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links and conference materials. Content and resources are provided by The MIT Press and other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals who are willing to share public access to online work.

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A comprehensive reference work covering the methodological and theoretical diversity of the cognitive sciences. MITECS includes 471 concise articles by leading researchers in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence and the neurosciences.  Edited by Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil.

First edition of 1999.