The Holland library contains many resources for students and faculty interested in Philosophy. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries website or would like to request a book or journal on any subject related to Philosophy, please contact Bob Matuozzi. For questions about the Philosophy program, please see Department of Philosophy.

Library Resources

• Library Catalog

  GRIFFIN Library Catalog The library catalog includes holdings for all the WSU Library sites, in Pullman and across the state. Please note: Electronic journals and other 'virtual' publications are included in the catalog. GRIFFIN also provides access to SUMMIT, a system that allows users to borrow books owned by all publicly supported colleges and universities in Washington State as well as many colleges and universities in Oregon.

• Indexes, Abstracts and Other Databases

  • The Philosopher's Index. 1940 – the present. The index to use for philosophy. A subject and author index with abstracts, indexing philosophy journals and books in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, along with selected books and journals in other languages and related interdisciplinary publications. Includes a book review index. Also in paper copy in Holland, Hol Ref B1 .P4

• New Books

  • New books at WSU Libraries.

• Reference Books

  Holland Library's reference section on the 1st floor behind the reference desk contains many useful reference works for philosophy. The following list highlights some of the most important. See the next section on Reference Works on the Web for a list of reference works in philosophy on the web.
  
  
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Hol Ref B51 .R68 1998
  • The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Hol Ref B51 .C58 2000
  • The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Hol Ref B51 .O94 1995
  • The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Hol Ref B41 .C35 1999
  • Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Hol Ref B41 .B53 1996
  • The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy. Hol Ref B21 .B56 1996
  • The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy. Hol Ref B803 .E35x 1999
  • Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophy. Hol Ref B41 .B56x 1996
  • Dictionary of Existentialism. Hol Ref B 819 .D455 1999
  • Dictionary of World Philosophy. Hol Ref B 41 .I26 2001
  • Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Hol Ref BH56 .E53 1998
  • Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Hol Ref BJ63 .E445x 1998
  • Encyclopedia of Asian philosophy. Hol Ref B121 .E53 2001
  • Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Hol Ref B163 .E53 1997
  • Encyclopedia of Ethics. Hol Ref BJ63 .E45 2001
  • Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. Hol Ref B831.2 .E63 2001
  
  
  There are also a number of very useful companions and guides to particular philosophers, types of philosophy, and philosophical topics.
  
  Blackwell Companions to Philosophy:
  
  • A Companion to Aesthetics. BH 56 .C66 1995
  • A Companion to African-American Philosophy. B 944 .A37 C66 2003.
  • A Companion to Analytic Philosophy. B 808.5 .C555 2001.
  • A Companion to Applied Ethics. BJ 1031 .C585 2003.
  • A Companion to Bioethics. R 724 .C616 2001
  • A Companion to Business Ethics. HF 5387 .C655 1999
  • A Companion to Cognitive Science. BF 311 .C578 1999
  • A Companion to Continental Philosophy. B 803 .C66 1998
  • A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy. B 801 .C66 2002
  • A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. GE 40 .C66 2001
  • A Companion to Epistemology. BD 161 .C637 1993
  • A Companion to Ethics. BJ 1012 .C62 1993
  • A Companion to Feminist Philosophy. HQ 1190 .C665 2000
  • A Companion to Genethics. QH 4387 .C645 2002
  • A Companion to Metaphysics. BD 111 .C626 1995
  • A Companion to Philosophical Logic. BC 71 .C65 2002
  • A Companion to Philosophy. Second edition. B 21 .B56 2003.
  • A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages. B 721 .C54 2003.
  • A Companion to Philosophy of Language. P 106 .C5945 1999
  • A Companion to Philosophy of Mind. BD 418.3 .C62 1995
  • A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. BL 51 .C6355 1999
  • A Companion to Philosophy of Science. Q 175.3 .C65 2000
  • A Companion to the Philosophers. B 72 .C595 1999
  
  Cambridge Companions to Philosophy:
  
  • Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. B 485 .C35 1995
  • Cambridge Companion to Aquinas. B 765 .T54 C29 1993
  • Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. JC 251 .A74 2000
  • Cambridge Companion to Augustine. B 655 .Z7 C35 2001
  • Cambridge Companion to Bacon. B 1198 .C265 1996
  • Cambridge Companion to Descartes. B 1873 .C25 1992
  • Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus. B 765 .D74 C35 2003
  • Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. B 188 .C35 1999
  • Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy. HQ 1154 .C25 2000
  • Cambridge Companion to Foucault. B 2430 .F724 C36 1994
  • Cambridge Companion to Freud. BF 109 .F74 C36 1991
  • Cambridge Companion to Gadamer. B 3248 .G34 C35 2002
  • Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy. B 111 .C36 2003
  • Cambridge Companion to Habermas. B 3258 .H324 C36 1995
  • Cambridge Companion to Hegel. B 2948 .C28 1993
  • Cambridge Companion to Heidegger. B 3279 .H49 C25 1993
  • Cambridge Companion to Hobbes. B 1247 .C26 1996
  • Cambridge Companion to Hume. B 1498 .C26 1993
  • Cambridge Companion to Husserl. B 3279 .H94 C28 1995
  • Cambridge Companion to William James. B 945 .J21 P87 1997
  • Cambridge Companion to Jung. BF 109.J8 C36 1996
  • Cambridge Companion to Kant. B 2798 .C36 1992
  • Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard. B 4377 .C29 1998
  • Cambridge Companion to Leibniz. B 2598 .C335 1995
  • Cambridge Companion to Locke. B 1297 .C29 1994
  • Cambridge Companion to Levinas. B 2430 .L484 C36 2002
  • Cambridge Companion to Malebranche. B 1897 .C36 2000
  • Cambridge Companion to Marx. B 3305 .M74 C35 1991
  • Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy. B 720 .C36 2003
  • Cambridge Companion to Mill. B 1607 .C25 1998
  • Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche. B 3317 .C29 1996
  • Cambridge Companion to Ockham. B 765 .O34 C36 1999
  • Cambridge Companion to Pascal. B 1904 .C34 2003
  • Cambridge Companion to Peirce. B 945 .P44 C36 2004
  • Cambridge Companion to Plato. B 395 .C28 1992
  • Cambridge Companion to Plotinus. B 693 .Z7 C36 1996
  • Cambridge Companion to Quine. B 945 .Q54 C36 2004
  • Cambridge Companion to Rawls. JC 251.R32 C35 2003
  • Cambridge Companion to Rousseau. B 2137 .C27 2001
  • Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell B 1649 .R94 C36 2003
  • Cambridge Companion to Sartre. B 2430 .S34 C29 1992
  • Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer. B 3148 .C36 1999
  • Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment. B 1402 .E55 C36 2003
  • Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. B 3998 .C32 1996
  • Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. B 528 .C26 2003
  • Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein. B 3376 .W564 C345 1996
  
  Oxford Handbooks:
  
  • The Oxford handbook to aesthetics. BH 56 .O94 2003
  • The Oxford handbook of epistemology. BD 161 .O96 2002
  • The Oxford handbook of free will. BJ 1461 .F74 2002
  • The Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of law . Hol Ref K 235 .O94 2002
  • The Oxford handbook of practical ethics. Hol Ref BJ 1031 .O94 2003
  • The Oxford handbook of rationality. Hol BC 177 .O94 2004
  
  Blackwell Guides to Philosophy:
  
  • Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics. BH 39 .B556 2004
  • Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy. B 171 .B65 2003
  • Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy. B 851 .B49 2004
  • Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics. HF 5387 .B55 2002
  • Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy. B 803 .B57 2003
  • Blackwell Guide to Epistemology. BD 161 .B465 1999
  • Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. BJ 1012 .B536 2000
  • Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics. BD 111 .B57 2002
  • Blackwell Guide to Modern Philosophers: from Descartes to Nietzsche. B 791 .B53 2001
  • Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind. BD 418.3 .B57 2003
  • Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion. BR 100 .B49 2005
  • Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science. Q 175 .B533 2002
  • Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic. BC 71 .B565 2001
  • Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy. JA 71 .B535 2002
  • Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. BH 21 .R68 2002
  
  Dictionaries on individual philosophers:
  
  • A Descartes Dictionary. B 1831 .C67 1993
  • A Hegel Dictionary. B 2901 .I58 1992
  • A Heidegger Dictionary. B3279 .H48 Z44 1999
  • Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy. B 3279 .H49 D455 2000
  • Historical Dictionary of Hegelian Philosophy. B 2901 .B87 2001
  • Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy. B 4371 .W38 2001
  • A Hobbes Dictionary. B 1246 .M37 1995
  • A Kant Dictionary. B 2751 .C38 1995
  • A Wittgenstein Dictionary. B 3376 .W563 Z83 1996
  
  
  

  Reference Books on the Web

  There aren't many yet, but there are a few excellent web reference works for philosophy:
  
  
  • The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Hol Ref B51 .C58 2000
  • The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Hol Ref B51 .O94 1995
  • The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy. Hol Ref B803 .E35x 1999
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  • Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
  • Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy (search engine for some of these electronic reference works)
  • Free Online Dictionary of Philosophy
  • The Thoemmes Encyclopedia of the History of Ideas

Some major electronic journal sources for Philosophy:

• Philosophy journals at WSU Libraries.
• Electronic Collections Online (ECO). Over 500 full text scholarly journals from a variety of publishers. Full text coverage depends on the journal.
• JSTOR. Full text of back issues of over 100 scholarly journals.
• Project Muse. A few full text philosophy journals.
• Catchword. A few full text philosophy journals.

• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
• Philosophy in Cyberspace
• EpistemeLinks
• Erratic Impact Philosophy Research Base
  
  also useful:
• Philosophy University and College Departments
• American Philosophical Association