PHL 312U/WS 312U Feminist Care Ethics: Reference Works
Why Reference Works?
Reference works are an excellent first stop in your research and are incredibly useful for the following:
- Getting an overview of a topic
- Getting topic ideas for a paper topic or narrowing your topic
- Brainstorming keywords for searching and learning the vocabulary used by authors in that area
- Learning the key works on a given topic
- Discovering the key authors on a given topic
Reference works are a good starting off point, but should not be cited in your research as they are not considered primary or secondary sources. The only exception is when reference works contain primary and secondary sources (like collections of documents and essays).
Online Reference Sources
These are reference works paid for by the library but available online. They tend to be more general in nature.
- Oxford Reference OnlineContains full text subject encyclopedias, reference works, dictionaries, and handbooks in all disciplines.
Bibliographies
Using Bibliographies
A bibliography, in this context, is a book or electronic resource that lists primarily books and journal articles on a specific topic. A bibliography can be either a selective or exhaustive list of sources; it may just be a list of citations or could include annotations. Works included may be selected because of their publication date, or their importance, or their origin. Bibliographies are particularly useful when you need to do exhaustive research on your topic or if you need to find literature published during a period not covered by the electronic resources.
Women philosophers: a bibliography of books through 1990
Z7125 .B34 1992
Lists more than 2,800 titles of books written or edited by women, covering women's contributions to all branches of philosophy. Entries are organized by subject and also indexed by author name.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
and B51 .R68 1998 | 2nd Floor
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/index.htm
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
B41 .C35 1999 | 2nd Floor
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
B121 .C66 1997 | 2nd Floor
A Companion to Epistemology
BD161 .C637 1992 | 2nd Floor
A Companion to Metaphysics
BD111 .C626 1995 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
BH56 .E53 1998 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
BJ63 .E44 1998 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy
B163 .E53 1997 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of Empiricism
B816 .E53 1997 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of Ethics
BJ63 .E45 2001 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of phenomenology
B829.5 .E53 1997 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
B41 .E5 | 2nd Floor
The Encyclopedia of Religion
BL31 .E46 1987 | 2nd Floor
The New Catholic Encyclopedia
BX841 .N44 2003 | 2nd Floor
Ethics
BJ63 .E54 1994 | 2nd Floor
Women Philosophers: A Bio-critical Source Book
B105 .W6 K47 1989 | 2nd Floor
World Philosophers and Their Works
B104 .W67 2000 | 2nd Floor
Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers by
Call Number: B104 .B56 1996 | 2nd FloorISBN: 9780415060431Publication Date: 1995-12-15