Philosopher's Index database contains bibliographic citations with author abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy with complete coverage of all major articles from anthologies and books written in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French -- journals from 38 countries published since 1940. Topics include all major fields of philosophy, including Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Logic (including mathematics), Metaphysics (including philosophy of mind, existentialism, and phenomenology), Political philosophy (including philosophy of law), Social philosophy, and the Philosophy of Education, History, Language, Science and Religion.
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Cambridge Companions: Philosophy and ReligionCollections of essays addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism.
Overviews of the origin and cultural interpretations of subjects such as beauty, love, feminism, diversity, and social capital, and others in Western thought and culture.
The purpose of the IEP is to provide detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of academic philosophy. The Encyclopedia’s articles are written with the intention that most of the article can be understood by advanced undergraduates majoring in philosophy and by other scholars who are not working in the field covered by that article.