Resources
JSTOR
To know it is to love it. Hundreds of full text, peer-reviewed journals, including some very good philosophy journals. From this site available to Kwantlen students, faculty, staff and library users only. Click here: JSTOR
Additional Library Resources
The following links are restricted to Kwantlen students, faculty and staff and users of the library.
The Philosopher’s Index
The Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries and is updated quarterly. Extensive indexing includes personal and proper names along with subject terms; there is also the capability to search for the authors of book reviews.
Academic Search Premier
The Academic Search Premier database indexes over 8100 journals, with full text for nearly 4700 scholarly publications, including more than 3600 peer-reviewed titles. Contains titles in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Humanities Index
The Humanities Index covers art, communications, dance, film, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, and philosophy.
Blogs display the opinions of individuals or collections of individuals. They are often of uneven quality. Philosophical blogs are of particular interest as they show thoughtful people reasoning together about various subjects. The following two links are a gateway into the philosophical blog world. They are unusual in that they are searchable by topic, philosopher, student, and university.
EpistemeLinks. A sound resource for philosophy generally. Here we link to their searchable list of philosophical weblogs.
In addition to his authoritative online bibliography of works in philosophy of mind, consciousness and artificial intelligence, David Chalmers offers a searchable list of philosophical weblogs.
Area Philosophy Departments
University of British Columbia Philosophy
University of Victoria Philosophy
Links of particular interest to students
Help with writing
Writing a Philosophy Paper (Peter Horban, SFU, 1993)
Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper (Jim Pryor, NYU)
Links of particular interest to faculty
Canadian Philosophical Association
American Philosophical Association
Society for Exact Philosophy
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy
BC Philosophy Articulation Committee
Maintained at Thompson Rivers University with links to British Columbia postsecondary institutions.
