Library Resources in Philosophy

The philosophy collection is one of the oldest collections in the library. There is excellent coverage of the scholarly works in major European languages in all branches of philosophy and Anglo-American, French, German, and most Continental philosophers are well represented in vernacular and English languages.

For more information about the types of resources available in the Philosophy Collection, see our Collection development policies.

Reference & Selector Contact Information

Wanda Wawro
Philosophy Selector

Wanda Wawro is a Slavic, East European, Linguistics and Philosophy selector. She has a masters degree in Polish Philology from the University of Lodz, Poland, and a masters degree in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University. If you have any question about library collections, policies, or services, please write or call Wanda. Her telephone number is 255-9482, and her e-mail address is wtw3@cornell.edu.

If you would like to request a book or a journal for the library collection, please fill out the online Purchase Request form, or contact Wanda.

Tony Cosgrave
Reference Liaison

109 Uris Library
(607) 255-7148
ajc5@cornell.edu

If you have any questions about library services, policies, resources, or any other aspect of the library please feel free to write or call Wanda or Tony. One of them will make sure your question is addressed and answered.

Library Instruction & Research Consultations for Philosophy

The digital revolution has made an enormous amount of information available to researchers in Philosophy, but discovering resources and using them effectively an be challenging, both for incoming first-year students and seasoned scholars.

The library provides instruction in using its resources for classes from first-year to graduate-level seminars.

The following are examples of course-specific classes in Philosophy that the Collection, Reference, Instruction and Outreach department has taught recently:

Global Poverty and Duties of Aid
Philosophy 100.1 - Fall 2006
Consent and Coercion
Philosophy 100.2 - Fall 2005
Puzzles of Identity
Philosophy 100.5 - Fall 2005

Faculty: If you would like to arrange for a course-specific library instruction session, please fill out the online Instruction Session Request Form.

Students and other Cornell-affiliated patrons: If you would like to arrange for an individual research consultation, please fill out the online Consultation Session Request Form.

Library Research Guide for Philosophy

The Philosophy Research Guide categorizes and annotates Philosophy information resources, primarily from Cornell Library reference collections. Included are encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, bibliographies, dictionaries, almanacs, print indexes, online databases, and more. Information on the page is reviewed and updated regularly.

Selected Databases for Philosophy

International Philosophical Bibliography
Available through Find it!: Databases, or the Library Catalog

The present bibliography is the successor of, on the one hand, the Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie, which has appeared quarterly since May 1934 as a supplement of the Revue néoscolastique de philosophie (renamed Revue philosophique de Louvain, in 1946), and, on the other, of the Bibliografisch Repertorium van de Wijsbegeerte, which has appeared as part of the Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, since 1939. The bibliography is published by the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie (Université Catholique de Louvain) and the Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Philosopher's Index
Available through Find it!: Databases, or the Library Catalog

Provides indexing and abstracts from books and many journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World. Coverage is from 1940 to the present for U.S. materials, and 1967 to the present for non-U.S. references.

Recent Acquisitions in Philosophy

After the death of God
Caputo, John D.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2007
(Olin stacks B56 .C27 2007)

Classic Asian philosophy: a guide to the essential texts
Kupperman, Joel.
Oxford; New York: Columbia University Press, 2007
(Kroch Asia stacks B121 .K85 2007)

Common sense: its history, method, and applicability
Ledwig, Marion.
New York: P. Lang, 2007
(Olin stacks B105 .C457 L43 2007)

Dream, death, and the self
Valberg, J.J.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007
(Olin stacks B105 .E9 V34 2007)

Encyclopedia of philosophy
Borchert, Donald M., ed.
Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006
(Olin Ref B51 .E56 2006 +)

The experience of philosophy
Kolak, Daniel and Raymond Martin, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
(Olin stacks B29 .E96 2006)

The future of the image
Rancière, Jacques; translated by Gregory Elliott.
London; New York: Verso, 2007
(Olin stacks B105 .I47 R3613 2007)

Freedom: a philosophical anthology
Carter, Ian, Matthew H. Kramer and Hillel Steiner, eds.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007
(Olin stacks B105 .L45 F72 2006)

Gorgias - Menon: selected papers from the Seventh Symposium Platonicum
Erler, Michael and Luc Brisson, eds.
Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2007
(Olin stacks B371 .S95 2004)

Il paese delle chimere: aspetti e momenti dell'idea di illusione nella Cultura Occidentale
Sozzi, Lionello.
Palermo: Sellerio, 2007
(Olin stacks B105 .I44 S69 2007)

The philosophy of war and peace
Teichman, Jenny.
Exceter, UK; Charlottesville, VA: Imprint Academic, 2006
(Olin stacks B105 .W3 T45 2006)

Practical intelligence: the art and science of common sense
Albrecht, Karl.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007
(Olin stacks B105 .C457 A43 2007)

Re-engineering philosophy for limited beings: piecewise approximations to reality
Wimsatt, William C.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007
(Olin stacks B29 .W498 2007)

True to our feelings: what our emotions are really telling us
Solomon, Robert C.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
(Olin stacks B105 .E46 S675 2007)

The twenty greatest philosophy books
Garvey, James.
London: Continuum, 2006
(Olin stacks B72 .G37 2006)

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Last Updated: 16 August 2007 (nm)
Wanda Wawro, Tony Cosgrave

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