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Honolulu, HI 96822

 

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Find Articles and Journals

 

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals.

 

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

 

ERIC (via EBSCOHost)
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.

 

Ingenta
The Ingenta Library Gateway is a searchable multidisciplinary index database of more than 11 million citations from over 20,000 journals. Electronic, fax and Ariel document delivery is available for millions of articles.

 

JSTOR Arts and Sciences I Collection
Provides full-text journal backfiles in various disciplines. The JSTOR project's primary goal is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Selected journals in the following subject areas are available: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.

 

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Dates covered are from 1973 to the present. Access is through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.

 

MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Department of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. Such international coverage is represented by literature from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and while the majority of records are from English-language publications, at least sixty other languages are represented including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish.

 

The Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly resarch in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews.

 

 


Find Dissertations and Books

 

Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog
Use the online catalog to find books, journals, dissertations, videos, more.

 

Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations & Theses (PQD&T) includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available for PDF download.

 

New Books at UHM Library
Interface for identifying new books. Can be limited by keyword and date range.

 

 


Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias and Guides

 

GUIDES

 

Philosophy : a guide to the reference literature
Hamilton and Hamilton Main Reference B72 .B97 1997

The philosopher's guide to sources, research tools, professional life, and related fields
Hamilton B53 .D435

Research guide to philosophy
Hamilton B52 .T5 1983

Library research guide to philosophy
Hamilton Main Reference B52.L57

Research Guide in Philosophy
Hamilton Main Reference B52.B43

Guide to philosophical bibliography and research
Hamilton Main Reference Z7125.D44

 

HANDBOOKS

 

Handbook of Western philosophy
Hamilton Main Reference B804 .H17 1988

Topics in the philosophy of language
Hamilton BC6 .H36 1983

My major is philosophy : a student's handbook
Hamilton BD21 .W44 1982

Handbook of world philosophy : contemporary developments since 1945
Hamilton B804.A1 H36

Handbook in social philosophy
Hamilton B63 .B42

Practice of philosophy : a handbook for beginners
Hamilton BD241 .R65

Welcome to philosophy : a handbook for students
Hamilton BD21.G45

Invitation to philosophy; an introductory handbook
Hamilton BD21.H645

 

GRANTS

 

Directory of grants in the humanities, 1996/97
Hamilton AZ188 .U5 D57 1996

A Casebook of grant proposals in the humanities
Hamilton AZ188.U5 C37

 

INDEXES & ABSTRACTS

 

Philosophical books
Hamilton Z7127 .P48

Philosopher's index
Hamilton Main Reference B1 .P45
Online

The Philosopher's index : a retrospective index to U.S. publications from 1940
Hamilton Main Reference B1.P452

The Philosopher's index : a retrospective index to non-U.S. English language publications from 1940
Hamilton Main Reference B1.P453

Humanities index
Hamilton Main Reference AI3 .H85
CD-ROM 128

Arts & humanities citation index
Hamilton Main Reference Z5937.A75

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

 

Bibliographische Einfuhrungen in das Studium der Philosophie
Hamilton Main Reference Z7127.B5

Philosophy and psychology
Hamilton B72 .H37 1973

Bibliographischer Wegweiser der philosophischen Literatur
Hamilton Main Reference Z7125.T52

World philosophy : a contemporary bibliography
Hamilton B801.W67 1993

Bibliography of philosophical bibliographies
Hamilton Z7125.A1 G83

Bibliographie de la philosophie
Hamilton Z7127 .I5

Repertoire bibliographique de la philosophie
Hamilton Z7127.R42

Philosophy journals and serials : an analytical guide
Hamilton B72.R72 1985

Bibliographie de la philosophie
Hamilton Main Reference Z7127.I52

 

DISSERTATIONS

 

Dissertations in philosophy accepted at American universities, 1861-1975
Hamilton Z7125.B38

Research in philosophy : a bibliographical introduction to philosophy and a few suggestions for dissertations
Hamilton B53.K645 1966

A bibliography of doctoral dissertations accepted by Indian universities, 1857-1970
Hamilton Main Reference Z5055.I57 I56 ASIA

 

DICTIONARIES

 

Dictionary of philosophy
Hamilton B41 .D52 1984

A concise dictionary of Indian philosophy : Sanskrit terms defined in English
Asia Reference B131.G67 1996

Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophie
Hamilton Main Reference B43 .R59

Vocabulaire technique et critique de la philosophie
Hamilton Main Reference B42 .L3 1968

Greek philosophical terms; a historical lexicon
Hamilton Main Reference B49 .P4

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

 

Dictionary of philosophy and psychology
Hamilton Main Reference B41.B3 1960

Dictionary of the history of ideas : studies of selected pivotal ideas
Hamilton and Hamilton Main Reference CB5.D52

Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Hamilton B51.O94 1995

The encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion : Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen
Asia Reference BL1005.L4813

Encyclopedia of ethics
Hamilton Main Reference BJ63 .E45 1992

Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies
Asia Reference B131 .E5

Encyclopedia of philosophy (2nd ed.)
Hamilton Main Reference B51 .E53 2006

Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy
Hamilton Main Reference B51 .R68 1998

 

DIRECTORIES

 

International directory of philosophy and philosophers
Hamilton Main Reference B35.I58

Directory of American philosophers
Hamilton Main Reference B935.D628

A Directory of women in philosophy
Hamilton B105.W6 D57

A directory of women in philosophy, 1979-1980
Hamilton Main Reference BS35.D5

 

 


Selected Journals for Philosophy

 

"Selected Periodicals" are those recommended in Bill Katz' Magazines for Libraries, 1997 [PN4832.K2 CVR], that are currently owned by UHM. Do a subject search in the library catalog for complete holdings, using the terms 'philosophy periodicals'.

 

American philosophical quarterly
Hamilton B1 .A46

Analysis
Hamilton B1 .A11

Ancient philosophy
Hamilton B1 .A535

Archiv fur geschichte der philosophie
Hamilton B3.A69

Australasian journal of philosophy
Hamilton B1 .A8

British journal for the philosophy of science
Hamilton Q175 .B787

British journal of aesthetics
Hamilton BH1 .B7

Canadian journal of philosophy
Hamilton B1 .C35

Dialogue
Hamilton B1.A23 D5

Diogenes
Hamilton AS4 .D5

Erkenntnis
Hamilton B3 .J77

Ethics
Hamilton BJ1 .E85

Husserl studies
Hamilton B3279.H94 A14

Idealistic studies
Hamilton B1 .I34

Inquiry
Hamilton H1 .I5

International philosophical quarterly
Hamilton B1 .I2

Journal of indian philosophy
Hamilton B130 .J67

Journal of medicine and philosophy
Hamilton R723 .J66

Journal of philosophical logic
Hamilton BC51 .J68

Journal of philosophical studies
Hamilton B1 .P549

Journal of philosophy
Hamilton B1 .J6

Journal of speculative philosophy
Hamilton B1 .J7

Journal of symbolic logic
Hamilton BC1 .J826

Journal of the history of philosophy
Hamilton B1 .A214

Kant studien philosophische zeitschrift
Hamilton B2750 .K139

Law and philosophy
Law Library K12 .A917

Linguistics and philosophy
Hamilton P1.A1 L513

Mind
Hamilton B1.M661

Monist
Hamilton B1 .M7

Nous
Hamilton B1 .N68

Oxford studies in ancient philosophy
Hamilton B1 .O9

Pacific philosophical quarterly
Hamilton AP2 .P432

Philosophical books
Hamilton Z7127 .P48

Philosophical forum
Hamilton B31 .P5

Philosophical investigations
Hamilton B1 .P477

Philosophical quarterly
Hamilton B1 .P49

Philosophical review
Hamilton B1.P5

Philosophical studies
Hamilton B21 .P53

Philosophy
Hamilton B1 .P549

Philosophy and literature
Hamilton PN2 .P5

Philosophy and phenomenological research
Hamilton B1 .P57

Philosophy and rhetoric
Hamilton PN2 .P56

Philosophy east & west
Hamilton B1.P573

Philosophy of Science
Hamilton Q1.P55

Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Hamilton H1.P56

Philosophy today
Hamilton B1 .P576

Phronesis
Hamilton B1 .P59

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
Hamilton B11.A7

Ratio
Hamilton B1.R27

Review of metaphysics
Hamilton B1 .R34

Revue de metaphysique et de morale
Hamilton B2 .R2

Revue internationale de philosophie
Hamilton B1 .A24

Revue philosophique de Louvain
Hamilton B2 .R35

Social epistemology
Hamilton BD175 .S62

Southern journal of philosophy
Hamilton B1 .S65

Studies in history and philosophy of modern physics
Hamilton QC6.9 .S78

Studies in history and philosophy of science
Hamilton Q125 .S94

Synthese
Hamilton AP1 .S9

Telos
Hamilton B1 .T45

Theory and decision
Hamilton H61 .T465

 

 


About the Philosophy Collection

 

Welcome to the Library's home page for Philosophy, linking faculty and students to information resources and services available at the University of Hawaii Library, at other locations and on the World Wide Web. We hope this site provides you with a starting point and an information structure that will help fill your information needs.

Consists of approximately 32,000 books and 400 periodicals concerning Philosophy as well as many more books and periodicals in related fields.

The collection includes ancient philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, mathematical logic, jurisprudence, philosophy of law.

Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Arabic and Persian philosophy are also collected.

 

Library Collection Policy Statement for Philosophy

 

Note:
The book count was calculated by combining the title count from relevant B-BD and BH-BJ Library of Congress Classification areas. The figures are based on the 1997 North American Title Count, University of Hawaii at Manoa Library.
The number of serials supporting Philosophy was calculated by using a subject search in the library catalog, for the terms 'philosophy periodicals'.

 

Last modified: Thursday October 9, 2006

 


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