The philosophy collection of Marquette University is located principally in the Raynor Memorial
Libraries which contain over 1.6 million volumes of books, bound journals, and microforms.
Philosophy is one of the subject areas in which the Library attempts to collect comprehensively.
The philosophy collection represents close to 50,000 volumes (excluding bound
journals, microforms, and electronic holdings), and is especially strong in the areas of Ancient,
Medieval, and Early modern philosophy of Europe and North America. Other areas with strong
holdings include: Arabic (Islamic) philosophy, both primary and secondary sources in the original
language and/or translations; Thomism; metaphysics/ontology; and ethics. Philosophical works
and criticism in non-Western philosophy are collected selectively and at a more basic level.
English is the primary language of the philosophy collection, and English translations of primary
sources are acquired whenever available. Of course, original language editions of all major
Western philosophers form the core of the collection. Secondary sources in French and German
(in addition to English) are comprehensively acquired. Italian and Spanish secondary sources
are more selectively acquired. In recent years Arabic language philosophical works have been
acquired in both primary and secondary sources.
In addition to standard print indexes and reference sources, a growing number of electronic
indexes and full text sources are available. Most online databases are available from off-campus
to valid Marquette Card holders only. Of special interest to philosophers:
L’Annee Philologique (Online)
L'Annee Philologique is an index to periodicals, books, and Festschriften in classics and classical studies,
including Greek and Latin linguistics and literature, and Greek and Roman archaeology, history,
mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics, and paleography. Represents 375,000 bibliographic
records (1969-2001), with 12,500 new records added each year; publication information for articles is
accompanied by a brief abstract; all records are classified in a two-parts system: Ancient authors and
texts, Subjects and disciplines; searching available by modern authors, by full text, by ancient authors
and texts, by subjects and disciplines, by word(s) in the title, by publisher, by collection, and by
periodical. Also offers possibility of limiting a search by year of publication or by a range of years,
and also by modern language (for French, English, German, Italian, or Spanish).
Aristoteles Latinus Database (CD-ROM, Available on
Library PC workstations only)
The ALD provides access to the complete corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of
Aristotle which includes the texts that have been critically edited in the print series Aristoteles
Latinus. Other corpuses, both published and unpublished (future) editions, will be added
to those of the Aristoteles Latinus series. However, the electronic database will not be identical to
the printed editions, as it will not contain the prefaces in which the manuscript tradition is described, nor
will it include its apparatus of variant readings, their Greek-Latin comparative apparatus, or its bilingual
indexes. The ALD provides an intergrated database of medieval translations of Aristotle's works.
The electronic and the printed editions are thus intended to be complementary.
Aristotle Bibliography (Online)
Covering the period from 1900 to the present, the Aristotle Bibliography is the most
complete database on Aristotelian scholarship available in either print or digital form. It includes
over 45,000 entries (four times more than the listings in Philosopher's Index), covers over
35,000 academic articles and book reviews, 6,200 books, and over 1,500 Ph.D. dissertations in English,
French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other European languages.
Encyclopedia Judaica (CD-ROM, Available on
Library PC workstations only)
This networked CD-ROM comprises the 16 volume edition of the printed Encyclopedia, the Year
Books and the Decennials that followed, and a distinguished series of selected
updates, available only on this CD-ROM. 26,000 entries.
Encyclopedia of Islam (Online)
Electronic version of the original 9 volume (plus 2 updates) set. Represents over 10 million
words and thousands of articles dealing with the ancient, medieval, and modern periods of Islamic
studies. Searches are possible in both Arabic transcription and English. Powerful search
engine allows for wildcard, Boolean, and proximity searches. Includes many hyperlinks for easy
cross-referencing.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Online)
A new and updated edition of this multivolume set -- the first comprehensive new edition in almost 40
years -- has been compiled under the close guidance of a 21-member board of scholars headed by
Donald Borchert (Ohio University).
Index Islamicus (Online)
An international bibliography of publications on all aspects of Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim
world. Search criteria include: subject, author, title, keyword in title, keyword, year, place of
publication, type of literature, and publisher. Includes references from over 24,000 monographs
and 172,000 articles in English and other European languages. Dates of coverage:
1906-present.
International Medieval Bibliography
(Online)
The IMB now comprises over 300,000 full bibliographical entries of articles, review articles, scholarly
notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies (1967-2002). Using familiar
multilingual terminology defined by professional medievalists for medievalists, this database employs
120,000 index terms classified into six types (subjects, persons, texts, places, manuscripts, etc.).
Covers publications in over 30 languages. Relevant to Classics, English language and literature,
History and archaeology, Theology, Philosophy, Medieval European languages and literatures, Arabic
and Islamic studies, Art history, etc.; 15,000 new entries each year.
International Philosophical Bibliography
(Online)
Continues the Repertoire Bibliographique de la Philosophie which combined in 1990 with
Bibliografisch Repertorium van de Wijsbegeerte (previously, a section in the periodical
Tijdschrift voor Filosofie). A compreshensive international bibliography of books
and articles on philosophy—including book reviews—published in English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Latin, Portuguese, and Catalan. Currently covers 1985-2004.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and
Renaissance (Online)
A bibliography of scholarly materials on the Renaissance (1300-1700) and the Middle ages (400-1500)
published in over 200 journals since the 1840s.
Library of Latin Texts Online (formerly
CETEDOC: Library of Christian Latin Texts)
Full Latin text of nearly 1000 Patristic and medieval works, including the complete works of Augustine
and Jerome.
JSTOR (Online)
An electronic archive of scholarly journals sponsored by a consortium of academic libraries. All
journals are full text and electronically searchable. Philosophy journals included are:
Analysis 1933-1995
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1950-1998
British Journal of Educational Studies 1952-2000
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 1995-2005
Ethics 1938-2001
International Journal of Ethics 1890-1938
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1941-2002
Journal of Philosophy 1921-2000
Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 1904-1920
Journal of Symbolic Logic 1936-2001
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 1939-2000
Journal of the Warburg Institute 1937-1939
Law and Literature 2002
Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 1989-2001
Mind 1876-1998
Noûs 1967-1999
Philosophical Issues 1991-1998
Philosophical Perspectives 1987-1995
Philosophical Quarterly 1950-2000
Philosophical Review 1892-2002
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1940-2000
Philosophy and Public Affairs 1971-2000
Philosophy East and West 1951-2002
Philosophy of Science 1934-2001
Political Theory 1973-2002
Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 1927-2002
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1970-1994
Sociological Theory 1983-2003
See Project Muse and POIESIS below for complementary electronic resources.
New Dictionary of the History of
Ideas (Online)
The publication of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas marks the return of a
reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of "what we think" accessible
to students and general readers. The original 1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas
has long been admired as a landmark document encapsulating the thinking of an era. This
thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence
and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society.
Past Masters (Online)
Contains the full text of works by such major philosophers as Aquinas, Aristotle, Bacon, Bentham,
Berkeley, Burke, Conway, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Leibniz, Locke, Machiavelli, Mill, Nietzsche, Paine,
Plato, Ricardo, Rousseau, Selby-Bigge, Sidgwick, Smith, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein.
Patologia Latina Database
(Online)
Full Latin text of all 221 volumes of the first edition of Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus,
Series Latina.
Patrologiae Graecae (Online)
The electronic version of J.P. Migne’s Patrologiae Graecae contains more than 160
volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian
Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.
Philosopher's Index (Online)
U.S. and foreign books and journals covered from 1940, foreign sources from 1967. Updated
quarterly.
POIESIS (Online)
POIESIS offers searchable online access to a single database containing the full text of current,
recent, and back issues of a growing number of philosophy journals. Every word in every
journal issue in the database is fully searchable. Users and view up to a paragraph of text
around each "hit," many journal titles also allow full text display. More than 70
journals are currently licenses for the project, and current and/or recent issues of 40 philosophy
journals are now in the POIESIS database.
POIESIS is the only electronic provider for current and recent issues of the following titles:
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Augustinian Studies
Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy
Bradley Studies
Business and Professional Ethics Journal
Cogito
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy
Faith and Philosophy
Fichte-Studien
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Idealistic Studies
International Journal of Applied Philosophy
International Philosophical Quarterly
Irish Philosophical Journal
Journal for Peace and Justice Studies
Journal of Islamic Philosophy
Journal of Philosophical Research
The Journal of Philosophy (recent issues)
The Leibniz Review
New Nietzsche Studies
New Vico Studies
The Owl of Minerva
The Philosophical Review (recent issues)
Philosophical Studies
Philosophical Topics
Philosophy & Theology
Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Proceedings of American Catholic Philosophical Association
Proceedings of 20th World Congress of Philosophy
Professional Ethics, A Multidisciplinary Journal
Radical Philosophy Review
Radical Philosophy Review of Books
Social Philosophy Today
Southern Journal of Philosophy (prior to 2003)
Teaching Philosophy
Theoria
Tulane Studies in Philosophy
Project MUSE (Online)
An electronic database of journals in the humanities produced by Johns Hopkins University.
Journals particularly relevant to philosophy are listed below. Project Muse contains the full-text
of articles from recent issues.
The American Journal of Bioethics (2001-spring 2004; archive only)
Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2006-)
Education and Culture (2006-)
Ethics & the Environment (2001-)
Hastings Center Report (2005-)
Hypatia (1999-)
The Journal of Aesthetic Education (2003-)
The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2002-)
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (n.2 1999;2000-)
Journal of the History of Philosophy (2000-)
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (1996-)
Philosophy and Literature (1995-)
Philosophy & Public Affairs (2001-2003; archive only)
Philosophy and Rhetoric (n. 2 1999;2000-)
Philosophy East and West (Oct. 2000-)
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (win 2000-)
Perspectives on Science (1998-)
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (1996-)
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (2006-)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Online)
REP Online is the online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and it include
these features: over 2,000 original articles from over 1,300 experts in philosophy; 25,000 hot-linked
cross-references between articles; editorially defined links to other philosophy resources; a
comprehensive conceptual organization of key terms, themes, and names; and articles organized by
theme, philosophical traditions by region, religious traditions, and period.
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Online)
The SEP was started in 1995 as a dynamic reference work. In a dynamic reference work, each
entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries
and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished editorial board before they are made
public.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (CD-ROM and Online versions available)
The TLG digital library contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between
Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, plus historiographical lexicographic, and scholiastic texts
from the period between 600 and 1453. Includes the Septuagint and Greek New Testament.
Thomae Aquinatis Opera Omnia Cum Hypertextibus (CD-ROM
and Online versions available)
Full, searchable text (in Latin) of the works of Aquinas and 61 other related Latin works. An
electronic version of the printed concordance, Index Thomisticus. Available via
the Libraries’ home page (or, the CD-ROM
version is available at workstations throughout the Libraries). The online version is published
by the Universidad de Navarra (Spain).
This brief listing may be explored further in other areas of the Web site, but an enumeration of
key privileges and services includes:
