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Philosophy

Background Information

Bibliography of Bioethics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks R724 .B45
Annual collection of citations to articles and monographs in bioethics.

The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought
Location: JPL Reference Stacks H41 .B53 2003

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5387 .B55 1998

Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion: Eastern and Western thought
Location: JPL Reference Stacks & Downtown Library, Reference B41 .R43 1996

Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QH332 .E52 2004

Encyclopedia of philosophy
Location: JPL Reference Stacks B41 .E5

Encyclopedia of philosophy (2nd edition)
Location: Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)

Ethics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BJ63 .E54 2005

The Oxford companion to philosophy
Location: JPL Reference Stacks & Downtown Library, Reference B51 .O94 2005

The Oxford dictionary of philosophy
Location: netLibrary

Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy
Location: JPL Reference Stacks & Downtown Library, Reference B51 .R68 1998

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Books

Books and Materials at the UTSA Library

UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
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Online Books

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) (UTSA subscription)
Contains the full text of 150 encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in a variety of disciplines. Updated regularly. Subscribed titles

netLibrary (UTSA subscription)
Electronic books available to UTSA users. Searchable by author, subject, title, and keyword. Full Text/Full Image

Past Masters: Philosophy (UTSA subscription)
The complete works of Aristotle and the collected dialogues of Plato. Full Text

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Databases & Article Searching

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The Philosopher's Index
Location: JPL Reference Stacks B1 .P47
The premier index for philosophical articles, books, anthologies, and contributions to anthologies in philosophy. It indexes more than 550 journals from more than 40 countries and is updated quarterly. In addition to the subject and author indexes, each issue or edition includes a book review index.

Academic Search Complete (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Full Text & Full Image

Religion & Philosophy Collection (UTSA subscription)
Features full-text journal coverage of philosophical studies and theology from some 250 full-text journals. The database includes topics such as world religions, Full Text & Full Image

JSTOR (UTSA subscription)
Full-image access to many scholarly journals. Search by keyword or by journal. Full Image

Philosophy titles include:

• British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1950-1998)
• Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (1995-2003)
• Ethics (1938-2001)
• International Journal of Ethics (1890-1938)
• Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1941-1999)
• Journal of Philosophy (1921-1997)
• Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods(1904-1920)
• Journal of Symbolic Logic (1936-1998)
• Mind (1876-1995)
• Noûs (1967-1997)
• Philosophical Perspectives (1987-1995)
• Philosophical Quarterly (1950-1997)
• Philosophical Review (1892-1999)
• Philosophical and Phenomenological Research (1940-1997)
• Philosophy of Science (1934-2001)
• Political Theory (1973-1999)
• PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (1970-1994)
• Sociological Theory (1983-1997)

Project Muse (UTSA subscription)
Maintained by Johns Hopkins University, this online journal collection offers full-text/full-image access to over 40 Johns Hopkins publications. Search by keyword or by journal. Full Text & Full Image

Philosophy journals available via Project Muse include:

• American Journal of Bioethics
• Ethics & the Environment
• Hypatia
• The Journal of Aesthetic Education
• The Journal of Nietzsche Studies
• The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
• Journal of the History of Philosophy
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
• Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
• Perspectives on Science
• Philosophy & Public Affairs
• Philosophy and Literature
• Philosophy and Rhetoric
• Philosophy East and West
• Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

Web of Science (UTSA subscription)
Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 8,400 journals from 1989 to the present in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Print equivalents published by The Institute for Scientific Information are Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Search by general keywords. Citations Only

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Further Research

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Free Website: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Free, dynamic encyclopedia of philosophy.

Some Texts from Early Moden Philosophy
Free Website: http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/
Versions of some classics of early modern philosophy, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.

UTSA Philosophy Department
The website for the UTSA Philosophy Department. Links to course descriptions, faculty webpages, and university resources.