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Philosophy Reference

Philosophy dictionaries, encyclopedias, companions and other reference works are borrowable and shelved with the main collection on Level 11
eReference resources include Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy online, a good starting point for philosophy topics, history of philosophy and world philosophies. Its Signpost articles provide overviews of key branches of philosophy and narrower topics

Companions and Guides

A companion to epistemology. 2nd ed. by Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2009
The Routledge companion to ethics by John Skorupski (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2010
A companion to applied ethics by R. G. Frey & C. H. Wellman (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2003
A companion to philosophical logic by D. Jacquette (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2002
A companion to metaphysics. 2nd ed. by Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, Gary S. Rosenkrantz (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2009
The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind by Brian McLaughlin (Ed.) (with A. Beckermann & S. Walter)
Publication Date: 2009
A companion to philosophy of religion. 2nd ed. by Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper, Philip L. Quinn (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2010
Philosophies of the sciences: A guide by Fritz Allhoff (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2010
A companion to the philosophy of technology by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Stig Andur (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2009
A companion to contemporary political philosophy. 2nd ed. by Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit, Thomas Pogge (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2007
A companion to ancient philosophy by Mary Louise Gill, Pierre Pellegrin (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2005
The Cambridge companion to early modern philosophy by Donald Rutherford (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2006
The Routledge companion to twentieth century philosophy by Dermot Moran (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2008
The Continuum companion to continental philosophy by John Mullarkey & Beth Lord (Eds.)
Publication Date: 2009

More Companions and Guides are listed under categories

General and Subcategories (this column)

General philosophy reference

Branches of philosophy

General Philosophy eReference

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General Philosophy Reference Books

Terms and Quotations

Aesthetics / Philosophy of Art and Film

Critical and Cultural Theory

Empiricism, Rationalism and Pragmatism

Epistemology

Ethics (general)

Applied Ethics

Bioethics and Medical Ethics

Environmental Ethics and Philosophy

Religious Ethics

Existentialism and Phenomenology

Feminist Philosophy / Women Philosophers

Logic

Metaphysics and Ontology

Philosophy of Education

Philosophy of Language and Analytic Philosophy

Philosophy of Law

Philosophy of Mind, Psychology and Emotion

Philosophy of Religion

Christian Philosophy

Philosophy of Science (general)

Philosophy of Biology and Evolution

Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics

Philosophy of Technology

Socio-political Philosophy (general)

Political Philosophy and Theory

Social Philosophy and Theory

Historical Categories (this column)

History of Western philosophy (general)

World Philosophies

Classical Graeco-Roman Philosophy (general)

Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy through 19th Century (general)

17th-Century Philosophers

18th-Century Philosophers

19th-Century Philosophers

20th-Century Philosophy (general)

History of Western Philosophy (general)

World Philosophies

Classical Graeco-Roman Philosophy

See also Presocratic and Other Classical Schools; Socrates and Plato; Aristotle; Late Antiquity and Neoplatonism

Presocratic and Other Classical Schools

Socrates and Plato

Aristotle

Late Antiquity and Neoplatonism

Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy (general)

Medieval Philosophers (individual)

Renaissance Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy through 19th Century (general)

17th-Century Philosophers

See Early Modern Philosophy through 19th Century (general); Descartes; Hobbes; Leibniz; Locke; Spinoza; Other 17th-Century Philosophers

Descartes

Hobbes

Leibniz

Locke

Spinoza

Other 17th-Century Philosophers

Cambridge companion to Pascal (2003)

18th-Century Philosophers

See Early Modern Philosophy through 19th Century (general); Berkeley; Hume; Kant; Rousseau; Other 18th-Century Philosophers

Berkeley

Hume

Kant

Rousseau

Other 18th-Century Philosophers

19th-Century Philosophers

See Early Modern Philosophy through 19th Century (general); Hegel; Kierkegaard; Marx; Mill; Nietzsche; Other 19th-Century Philosophers

Hegel

Kierkegaard

Marx

Mill

Nietzsche

Other 19th-Century Philosophers

20th-Century Philosophy (general)

See also Continental Philosophy; 20th-Century Philosophers (individual)

Continental Philosophy

20th-Century Philosophers (individual)

See Derrida; Heidegger; Husserl; Sartre; Wittgenstein; Other 20th-Century Philosophers

See also 20th-Century Philosophy (general); Continental Philosophy

Derrida

Heidegger

Husserl

Sartre

Wittgenstein

Other 20th-Century Philosophers

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