Induction to Philosophy resources @SHL

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1st the Numerical Prefix (66) then: AA-AAB: General histories of philosophy AAD-AAY: Ancient philosophy AB: Medieval philosophy AC: 16th-18th century philosophy AD: 19th -21st century philosophy, general works divided

by country AE: 19th-21st century philosophy, individual philosophers AF: General philosophy, introductions

AG: Systematic philosophy AH: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind AI: Philosophy of human nature AJ: Ethics AL: Logic



























Full-text databases which have the full article in PDF/HTML to view/download(JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, Ingenta, Times Digital, ProquestNewspapers)

Bibliographic/Indexes databases which contain all of the types of materialwritten about a particular topic such as journal articles, books, conference

proceedings, theses, reviews, etc. (Periodicals Index Online, Philosophers Index,PhilPapers)

Encyclopaedia/Dictionary databases (Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary ofNational Biography, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

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Induction to Philosophy resources @SHL