Welcome to the research guide for your course in Metaphysics
In the PHC Library catalog, you can search a variety of resources by title, author, keyword, or phrase, linking you to journal articles, ebooks, and print books in the on-campus collection. The more specific your search terms, the more specific the results will be. For our Distance Learning (DL) students, excerpts from print items held in the on campus library can be provided on request.
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You will find the following items in print in the PHC on-campus collection.
History of philosophy, edited by Copleston, has a reputation for objectivity, scholarship, and scope. - B72 .C6
Encyclopedia of philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert - Ref B51 .E53 2006
Cambridge dictionary of philosophy - Robert Audi - Ref B41 .C35 1999
Chronological and thematic charts of philosophies and philosophers - Hunnex - Ref BD 21 .H725 1986
Classical Philosophy, edited by Terence Irwin - B171 .C53 1999
Does the center hold? - Donald Palmer - BD26 .P24 1996
History of Greek philosophy - W. K. C. Guthrie - B171 .G83 1962
History of Western philosophy, W. T. Jones - B72 .J652 1969
History of Western philosophy and its connection with political and social circumstances - Bertrand Russell - B72 .R8 1945
Love your God with all your mind: The role of reason in the life of the soul - J. P. Moreland - BT50 . M62 1997
Oxford companion to the mind, edited by Richard L. Gregory- Ref BF 31 .O94 2004
Oxford companion to philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich - B51 .O94 2005
Oxford dictionary of philosophy, edited by Simon Blackburn - Ref B41 .B53 1996
Philosophical foundations for a Christian worldview - J. P. Moreland and Lane Craig - BR100 . N68 2003
Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion edited by Chad Meister - Ref BL 51 .R5984 2010
Shorter Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, edited by Edward Craig - Ref B51 .C58 2005
You will find following ebooks in the PHC ebook collection and if you have trouble accessing them, please contact askalibrarian@phc.edu for assistance:
Companion to Continental Philosophy: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Companion to Epistemology: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Companion to the Philosophers: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Companion to World Philosophies: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy 3rd Ed.
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Dictionary of World Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism
Fifty Major Philosophers Routledge Key Guides; 2nd Ed.
Hegel Dictionary: Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries
Heidegger Dictionary: Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries
History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000
Hobbes Dictionary: Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries
Kant Dictionary: Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries
Philosopher's Dictionary
A Short History of African Philosophy
You can search for any of the following Library of Congress subject term tags by limiting the search by "Subject":
Aristotle
History--Philosophy
Logic--Early Works to 1800
Philosophers
Philosophy, Ancient
Philosophy
Philosophy and religion
Philosophy--Introductions
Philosophy--History
Philosophy, Medieval
Philosophy, Modern
Plato
Reasoning
Socrates
You can search journal articles by title, keyword, or author, or browse the following journals through the library's Periodical Listing.
Created: Dr. Matthew Roberts/Thornhill, 2010. Last updated: Thornhill, 2022.
