Humanities & Social Sciences
Philosophy

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

The following are held in Shields Library Reference Collections. There are many more items shelved in the general collection. To locate these, use the subject heading "philosophy-dictionaries" by itself or in combination with a standard subheading, e.g. "philosophy-dictionaries-France" etc. Omit quotation marks when actually searching.

Adler's Philosophical Dictionary / Mortimer J. Adler
New York : Scribner, c1995
UCD Shields B945.A2863 A3 1995 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought / Edited by Kenneth McLeish
London : Bloomsbury Publications, 1993
UCD Shields AZ221 .B56 1993 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy / General editor, Robert Audi
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995
UCD Shields B41 .C35 1995 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit terms defined in English / John Grimes
Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1989
UCD Shields B131.G67 1989 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism / Joseph Childers and Gary Hentzi, general editors
New York: Columbia University Press, c1995
UCD Shields BH39 .C62 1995 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers / Edited by J.O. Urmson and Jonathan Ree. New ed., completely rev. London
Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989
UCD Shields B41.C66 1989 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only. Note: Look for a new edition of this work, soon to be added to the collection
The Dictionary of Feminist Theory / Maggie Humm
New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989
UCD Shields HQ1115.H86 1989b HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
A Dictionary of Philosophy / Editorial consultant, Antony Flew
2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1984
UCD Shields B41.D52 1984 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
A Dictionary of Philosophy / Thomas Mautner
Cambridge, Mass. Blackwell Publishers, c1996
UCD Shields B41 .M38 1996 HSSGIS Reference
Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion: Eastern and Western thought / William L. Reese. New and enl. ed
Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1996
UCD Shields B41 .R43 1996 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Dictionary of Religion and Philosophy / Geddes MacGregor 1st ed.
New York: Paragon House, 1989
UCD Shields BL31.M23 1989 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Dictionary of the History of Ideas; Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas / Philip P. Wiener, editor in chief
New York, Scribner [1973-74]
UCD Shields CB5.D52 v.1-4 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Dictionary of Theories / Edited by Jennifer Bothamley
London; Detroit: Gale Research International, c1993
UCD Shields AG5 .D53 1993 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only 38
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics / Edited by James Hastings, with the assistance of John A. Selbie and Louis Gray
New York, Scribner's [n.d.]
UCD Shields BL31 .E52 v.1-13 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only. Circulating set at Lower Level, Shields BL31 .E5
The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism,Taoism, Zen / Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber [et al.] ; editors, Stephan Schuhmacher, Gert Woerner ; translators, Michael H. Kohn, Karen... 1st ed
Boston : Shambhala, 1989
UCD Shields BL1005.L4813 1989 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy / Paul Edwards, editor in chief
New York, Macmillan [1967]
UCD Law Lib B41 .E5
UCD Shields B41.E5 v.7 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy / Paul Edwards, editor in chief
New York: Macmillan, 1972, c1967
UCD Shields B41.E5 1972 HSSGIS Reference LIBRARY HAS v.1-8. [Compact edition]
Circ Status: library use only
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment / Peter Hanns Reill, consulting editor; Ellen Judy Wilson, principal author
New York: Facts On File, c1996
UCD Shields B802 .W48 1996 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics / Edited by Donald A. Wells
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996
UCD Shields B105.W3 E53 1996 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Enzyklopadie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie
Mannheim : Bibliographisches Institut, c1980-c1996
UCD Shields B43 .E59 1980 v. 1-4. HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Glossary of Epistemology/Philosophy of Science / James H. Fetzer, Robert F. Almeder. 1st ed
New York Paragon House, 1993
UCD Shields BD150 .F47 1993 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy / Peter A. Angeles ; series editor, Eugene Ehrlich. 2nd ed., 1st HarperPerennial ed
New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1992
UCD Shields B41 .A6 1992 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Hsien hsueh tz'u tien : [cheng chi, hsu chi] / Tai Yuan-ch'ang pien chu ; Li Yueh-ch'iu chiao. Cheng hsu ch'uan chi ch'u pan. T'ai-pei shih
Chen shan mei ch'u pan she, Min kuo 59 [1970]
UCD Shields BL1930.T3 1970 Asian Languages Coll Ref
Circ Status: library use only
A Hobbes Dictionary / A.P. Martinich
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell, 1995
UCD Shields B1246 .M37 1995 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas
Oxford: Helicon, c1994
UCD Shields B41 .H88 1994 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Leibniz lexicon: A dual concordance to Leibniz's Philosophiche Schriften / Compiled by Reinhard Finster ... [et al.]
Hildesheim ; New York : Olms-Weidmann, 1988
UCD Shields B2596.L44 1988 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Lexikon der Aufklarung: Deutschland und Europa / Herausgegeben von Werner Schneiders
Munchen: Beck, c1995
UCD Shields B2621 .L49 1995 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Literaturwissenschaftliches Lexikon: Grundbegriffe der Germanistik / Herausgegeben von Horst Brunner und Rainer Moritz
Berlin : E. Schmidt, 1997
UCD Shields PT41 .L55 1997 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Oxford Companion to the Mind / Edited by Richard L. Gregory, with the assistance of O.L. Zangwill
Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987
UCD Shields BF31.O94 1987 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy / Ed. Edward Craig
London: Routledge, 1998.
Ucd Shields B51 .R68 1998 HSSGIS Reference
10 Vols. Also available on CD-ROM, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, 2nd Floor, Shields.
Vocabulaire Bordas de la Philosophie / Gerard Legrand
Paris : Bordas, 1993
UCD Shields B42 .L43 1993 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Ying Han che hsueh shu yu tz'u tien / Chung-kuo she hui k'o hsueh yuan che hsueh yen chiu so "che hsueh i ts'ung" pien chi pu pien. Ti 1 pan. Peiching
Chung kung chung yang tang hsiao ch'u pan she, 1991
UCD Shields B48.C6 Y56 1991 Asian Languages Coll Ref
Circ Status: library use only

Biographical, Critical, Historical

Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism / Edited by Wesley T. Mott
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996
UCD Shields B905 .B56 1996 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Philosophers / Edited by Stuart Brown, Diane Collinson, Robert Wilkinson
London; New York: Routledge, c1996
UCD Shields B804 .B49 1996 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Chung-hua ssu hsiang ta tz'u tien / chu pien Chang Tai-nien ; fu chu pien Chu Jih-yao, Ts'ao Te-pen. Ti 1 pan. Ch'ang-ch'un
Chi-lin jen min ch'u pan she, 1991
UCD Shields DS721.C57233 1991 Asian Languages Coll Ref
Circ Status: library use only
The Classical World Bibliography of Philosophy, Religion, and Rhetoric
New York : Garland Pub., 1978
UCD Shields Z7129 G7 C581 1978 HSSGIS Reference
With a new introd. by Walter Donlan. Circ Status: library use only
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy / Edited by Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam
London; New York: Routledge, 1997
UCD Shields B121 .C66 1997 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations / Edited by A.J. Ayer and Jane O'Grady
Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA : Blackwell Publishers, 1992
UCD Law Lib B21 .D54 1992 Ref. Reserve
UCD Shields B68 .D53 1992 HSSGIS Reference
Series title: Blackwell reference. Circ Status: library use only
Directory of American Philosophers
Bowling Green, Ohio [etc.] Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University [etc.]
UCD Shields B935 D57 Stacks V.1, 1962- Current in SHIELDS
HSSGIS Reference. Currently received.
Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the world of Islam / Edited by Ian P. McGreal. 1st ed
New York HarperCollins Publishers, c1995
UCD Shields B5005 .G74 1995 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
International Directory of Philosophy and Philosophers
Bowling Green, Ohio [etc.] Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green University, c1965-
UCD Shields B35 I6 Stacks 1965;1972/73-1974/75;1978/81-1990/92.
Current in SHIELDS HSSGIS Reference
Medieval Philosophers / Edited by Jeremiah Hackett
Detroit: Gale Research, c1992
UCD Shields B721 .M45 1992 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy / Edited by Ted Honderich
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
UCD Law Lib B51 .O94 1995 Ref. Reserve
UCD Shields B51 .O94 1995 HSSGIS Reference
UCD Shields B51 .O94 1995 c.2 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
The Oxford History of Western Philosophy / Edited by Anthony Kenny
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
UCD Shields B72 .O8 1994 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Philosophen-Lexikon; Handworterbuch der Philosophie nach Personen
Berlin, W. de Gruyter, 1949-50
UCD Shields B43.P5 1949 HSSGIS Reference LIBRARY HAS v.1-2
Circ Status: library use only
Philosophy: A Guide to the Reference Literature / Hans E. Bynagle
Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1986
UCD Shields B72.B97 1986 HSSGIS Reference
UCD Shields B72 B97 1986
Circ Status: library use only. Circ Status: not checked out. Note: a new edition has been announced.
Philosophy Journals and Serials: An Analytical Guide / Compiled by Douglas H. Ruben
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985
UCD Shields B72.R7 1985 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Resources in Ancient Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship in English, 1965-1989 / By Albert A. Bell, Jr. and James B. Allis
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1991
UCD Shields B171 .B38 1991 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
Thirty-five Oriental Philosophers / Diane Collinson and Robert Wilkinson
London; New York : Routledge, 1994
UCD Shields B5005 .C65 1994 HSSGIS Reference
Circ Status: library use only
World Philosophy: A Contemporary Bibliography / Edited by John R. Burr; Charlotte A. Burr, research editor
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993
UCD Shields B804 .W67 1993 HSSGIS Reference
Series title: Bibliographies and indexes in philosophy no. 3. Circ Status: library use only

Indexes to Philosophical Literature

ATLA Religion Database. [CD-ROM]
Evanston, Il : American Theological Library Association
UCD Shields BL1.A8 CD-ROM HSSGIS Reference 1995-
Humanities and Social Sciences Reference. ATLA religion database on CD-ROM
Arts & Humanities Citation Index. 1976-- [Print]
Humanities and Social Sciences Reference
Provides author, subject, and cited reference indexing for a range of journals in the humanities
Philosophers Index
Shields Library now has World Wide Web access to this database. Provides comprehensive indexing of philosophy journals world-wide, in a variety of languages. To access, follow the Library's home page to Electronic Databases A-Z, and from there to the Philosopher's Index.