The most thorough index of philosophy journal literature. For full-text, use Google Scholar or contact a librarian.
Content Includes
Nearly 700,000 records
Indexed articles from more than 1,850 journals
More than 740 journals come from more than 450 publishers
More than 1,200 journals are regularly indexed
Works on philosophy from both philosophy and interdisciplinary sources
More than 13,000 dissertations dating back to 1743 are in the process of being added
Prepared by and for Philosophers
Relevant data: philosophers pre-screen potential source documents for their relevance to the field of philosophy to minimize extraneous data
Consistent indexing: a small team of twelve philosophers index the work using a custom, standardized thesaurus. Keywords are assigned for all records (except book reviews) using the standardized thesaurus, which contains more than 15,000 subject headings and 40,000 names of philosophers
Consistent data entry: The Philosopher's Index staff enters all data into the database
Unique data: staff performs a check for duplicate records and removes duplicates
High-quality data: enables high-quality search results
Subjects Include
Aesthetics
Axiology
Epistemology
Ethics
Logic
Find an article by its title, and request via Interlibrary Loan/Tipasa if not available in full-text. Lake Forest College patrons should customize Google Scholar if using from off-campus.
