Philosopher's Index

The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with 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.

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.

Subject Coverage

Major areas of coverage include:

Aesthetics
Axiology
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Philosophical Anthropology
Philosophy of Education
Philosophy of Epistemology
Philosophy of Ethics
Philosophy of History
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Logic
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Science
Political Philosophy
Social Philosophy

Dates of Coverage

1940 - current

Update Frequency

Quarterly, with approximately 3,500 records added.

Size

Over 360,836 records as of September 2006

Printe Equivalent

The Philosopher's Index, ISSN 0031-7993

Supplier

Philosopher's Information Center
Attn: The Philosopher's Index
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Tel: 419-353-8830
Fax: 419-353-8920
Email: info@philinfo.org

Sample Record

TI:	Title Erkenntnistheorie: Vom Empfinden zum Begreifen: Kant im Kontext der Gegenw䲴igen Erkenntnistheorie
AU:	Author Heidemann, Dietmar H
MT:	Monograph Title Warum Kant heute?: Systematische Bedeutung und Rezeption seiner Philosophie in der Gegenwart
PU:	Publication Information Berlin: De Gruyter, 2004
PG:	Pages 14-43
AB:	Abstract The purpose of the article is to assess the contemporary significance of Kant's epistemology. The first section gives a broad overview of the reception and critique of Kant's theory of knowledge over the last decades. The second section then shows that Kant's concept of knowledge as cooperation of sensation and understanding is of particular interest for contemporary theories of perception, as W. Sellars has demonstrated in his critique of traditional empiricism. The third section explains, how J. McDowell takes up Sellars's critique and develops an essentially Kantian conception of knowledge. This conception is able to outline a solution of one of the central problems of contemporary epistemological discussion, the problem of the normative constraint of the world on the human mind. In this respect Kant's epistemology is of great significance to contemporary philosophy.
DE:	Descriptors Epistemology; Understanding; Kant
LA:	Language German
PY:	Publication Year 2004
PT:	Publication Type Book Chapter

UD:	Update 20040702
AN:	Accession Number 3103729

Browsable Indexes

A browsable index is an alphabetical listing of terms used in a specific field of a database. You can browse this list to see, for example, how the names of authors are represented in the database. You can select all the names or terms in which you are interested and then click Search to automatically search the database for those terms. Browsable indexes are available for the following fields:

Author
Descriptors
Journal Name
Publication Type

Field Codes

AB = Abstract	MT = Monograph Title
AN = Accession Number	PB = Publisher
AU = Author	PL = Publication Location
DE = Descriptors	PT = Publication Type
IB = ISBN	PU = Publication Information
IS = ISSN	PY = Publication Year
JI = Journal Issue	RW = Related Work
JN = Journal Name	SO = Source
JP = Journal Pages	TI = Title
JV = Journal Volume	UD = Update
LA = Language

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