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ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

IMPORTANT: Home Access to the available databases on this page now requires a Patchogue-Medford Library card. You will be prompted to enter the barcode from your card.

Essay/Speech/Play Finder
Description: Database of essays and discursive writing published in the 20th century and focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Also includes the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years and full-text for selected plays and dramatic works.
Full Text: Several thousand full text essays are included, along with author biographies and pictures.
Updates: Quarterly

Magill onLiterature Plus
Description: Literary criticism and plot summaries for the most studied works of world literature, as well as biographical and critical information on over 2,500 notable authors and the three volumes of World Philosophers and Their Works.
Full Text: All entries are full text.
Coverage: Contains the complete text of 62 volumes in Salem Press' Magills series with the the addition of Masterplots and Magill Book Reviews.
Updates: As new volumes are published in the series.

Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center
Description: Brings together viewpoint articles and background information on a wide variety of controversial social and economic issues.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: 1992+
Updates: Daily.

Religion & Philosophy Collection
Description: Covers topics such as world religions and denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
Full Text: 300+ journals are in full text.
Coverage: Primarily from 1990+, but some full text journals available back to the 195.
Updates: Daily.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
Description: Contains over 2,000 articles on persons, places, themes and topics in world philosophy. Over 25,000 links to outside websites useful to the study of philosophy are also included. Subject Guides categorize articles by topic, time period, and geography.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: Based on the print version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Updates: Annually.

WORLD WIDE WEB LINKS

General	Philosophers	Electronic Texts and Other Multimedia Applications	Schools and Movements	Online Papers
Organizations and Societies	Philosophy at PML	Studying Philosophy	Online Dictionaries and Encyclopedias	Online Journals

General (Back to Top)

20th WCP: Paideia Project On-Line
"The purpose of this Web site is to make available information regarding the meeting of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, Massachusetts, 10-15 August 1998, an event involving up to 2,500 individual presentations." Choice, Supplement 37, 2000.

DMOZ Open Project-Philosophy
DMOZ relies on volunteer editors to pull together a group of sites on particular topics. This is their site for philosophy resources.

Episteme links: Philosophy resources on the Internet
"Comprehensive but not overwhelming, Episteme Links is one of the best starting points for philosophy resources on the web." Choice, Supplement 37, 2000

Erratic Impact: Philosophy Research Base
Categorized by history, subject and author, this meta-index features thousands of annotated links, text resources and community services for students and teachers in philosophy and related subjects.

Ethics Updates
Ethics updates aims to provide updates on current ethical literature, both professional and popular. Choice, Supplement 37, 2000

Factasia Philosophy Page
"Factasia aims to develop, articulate and apply methods and tools for supporting logical analysis in philosophical (and other) applications."

Philosophy Around the Web
Links to some key philosophical issues.

The Philosophy Pages
Contains a 1000+ links for philosophy sites.

Philosophy of Economics
Different from a philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of economics focuses strictly on the Refdesk.com: My Virtual Guide to Philosophy
Everything in philosophy from Bibles to a Zen guide.

Philosophers (Back to Top)

Individual Philosophers
Contains and alphabetical and chronological list of websites of individual philosophers on the web.

The Window
A site that has good capsule descriptions on many of the more "popular" philosophers.

Electronic Texts and Other Multimedia Applications (Back to Top)

OpenCourseWare on Critical Thinking, Logic and Creativity
Follow along with the modules explaining critical thinking and logic basics.

No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed!
The site for the PBS television show.

The Philosophers Magazine On the Internet
This U.K. based site offers a wide range of information related to philosophy and topics of interest to philosophers.

Schools and Movements (Back to Top)

Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection
"The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4492 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period."

Philosophy for Children Server
A site for educators who are interested in bringing philosophy to children.

Online Journals (Back to Top)

Organizations and Societies (Back to Top)

Institute for Scholarly Studies
Contains links to a variety of philosophical organizations and societies.

Philosophy at PML (Back to Top)

Philosophy at PML
Click on the link above to see what resources the Patchogue Medford Library has on the subject of philosophy.

Studying Philosophy (Back to Top)

David Chalmers-Individuals With Online Papers in Philosophy
A collection of some recent papers involving philosophical topics. An efficient way to get a solid basis in a philosophical discipline.

EPhilosopher
A good basic site.

Guide to the Study of Philosophy
If you are having trouble grasping the intricacies of philosophy, then this is a good place to start.

The International Directory of Online Philosophy Papers
A fully-searchable collection of about 500 online philosophy papers.

Philosophical Gourmet Report, 2006-2008
Contains the rankings for United States Graduate Programs in Analytic Philosophy.

Philosophy Crossword Puzzles
If you are looking for a break from studying, this just might be it.

The Philosophy Major
An explanation, produced by the American Philosophical Association which explains what it means to be a philosophy major and what it entails.

Online Dictionaries & Encyclopedias (Back to Top)

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet-Quotations
Philosophical quotations from a variety of sources from Aristotle to Nietzsche.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Fully searchable on-line encyclopedia of philosophy. Some entries are more comprehensive than others, but all of the major topics are covered.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A very comprehensive online dictionary.

This page was last updated on December 4, 2007.-DW