Philosophy: a guide to the reference literature

✍ Scribed by Bynagle, Hans Edward

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 407
• Series: Reference sources in the humanities series
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"This guide represents a substantial updating and complete re-organization of the author's 1997 Philosophy: A Guide to the Reference Literature, 2nd edition (1st edition, 1986). It reflects a veritable explosion of reference sources, both print and online, in the field of philosophy over the past decade. Nearly 300 entries (or 40 percent) are entirely new. An additional 50 or so entries have substantial revisions recording new editions, changes in serial publications, series, and websites, or additional volumes completed in multi-volume sets. In addition, it has been entirely re-organized along topical lines. Each of its twenty-three chapters is divided into four sections: (1) general sources, (2) history of philosophy, (3) branches of philosophy, and (4) miscellanea. This new arrangement accords better with the greatly expanded range of philosophy reference sources and makes it easier for the user to identify related sources of different types (bibliographies, dictionaries, web gateways, etc.) on the same topic. Like its predecessor Guide to Reference Sources in Philosophy, the 3rd edition aims to serve a diverse audience of professional philosophers, philosophy educators, students from beginning to graduate, and librarians. All entries include generous annotations that are often evaluative as well as descriptive. English-language sources are emphasized, but non-English works important to researchers or of interest to users with facility in other languages are also well-represented." --From the Publisher. Read more...

Abstract:

Divided into four sections: general sources, history of philosophy, branches of philosophy, and miscellanea, this book features entries which include annotations that are often evaluative as well as descriptive. It emphasises the English-language sources, and represents non-English works that are important to researchers. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction --
General bibliographic and research guides --
General bibliographies --
General indexes, abstract and review sources, and serial bibliographies --
National and regional bibliographies and indexes --
General internet resource directories and gateways --
General encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks --
Comprehensive history sources --
Non-western philosophy --
Western philosophy: general, national, and regional --
Western philosophy: ancient --
Western philosophy: medieval and renaissance --
Western philosophy: modern through nineteenth century --
Western philosophy: twentieth and twenty-first centuries --
Anesthetics, philosophy of art and art criticism --
Epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind --
Ethics --
Logic and the philosophies of mathematics, science, and social sciences --
Logic and the philosophies of mathematics, science, and social sciences --
Philosophy of education --
Philosophy of religion --
Social, political, and legal philosophy --
Other branches of philosophy and special topics --
Sundry currents, schools, and movements.

✦ Subjects

Philosophy;Bibliography.;Philosophie;Bibliographie.;Philosophy.;Filosofie.