UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Philosophy: Books, Articles, and Journals

Locating Books in the Library

B - Philosophy (General)
BC - Logic
BD - Speculative philosophy
BF - Psychology
BH - Aesthetics
BJ - Ethics
BL - Religions/Mythology/Rationalism
BM - Judaism
BP - Islam/Bahaism/Theosophy
BQ - Buddhism
BR - Christianity
BS - The Bible
BT - Doctrinal Theology
BV - Practical Theology
BX - Christian Denominations

Books, theses, and periodicals with call numbers beginning with "B" are located on the West Wing 3^rd floor.

Reference books with call numbers beginning with "B" are located in the West Wing Reference Room (1^st floor).

Searching by Subject Headings

The following are examples of the Library of Congress subject headings that can be used in searching. These terms will be helpful when searching by "Subject Heading Browse."

General: philosophy	Specific: philosophy, comparative philosophy, chinese philosophy, ancient
Very Specific: meaning (philosophy) existentialism rationalism	People: philosophers socrates nietzsche friedrich

Journals and Databases

Philosophy
The journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
The proceedings of the Aristotelian Society contains the papers read at the Society's fortnightly meetings in London throughout the academic year.
American philosophical quarterly
Philosophical quarterly
History of philosophy quarterly : HPQ

Philosopher's Index
Philosopher's Index offers informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology and book reviews.
JSTOR
Archival and current issues of more than 2,400 scholarly journals across more than 60 academic disciplines (title lists) along with a growing number of open access ebooks. The UW-Milwaukee Libraries have acquired access to JSTOR collections Arts and Sciences I-VIII and the subject collections for Biological Sciences, Jewish Studies and Ireland.