LibGuides: Philosophy: Background Information

Dictionaries

Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
Call Number: B 804 .B52 1996 (Reference)

Available in print and online
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
Call Number: B 41 .B53 2005

Publication Date: 2005
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon by Barbara Cassin
Call Number: B 51 .V6313 2014 (Reference)
Dictionary of World Philosophy by A. Pablo Iannone
Call Number: B 41 .I26 2001 (Reference)

Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Donald M. Borchert
Publication Date: 2006

This encyclopedia from Macmillan Reference USA explores a wide variety of philosophical topics. It includes many updated entries from the first edition, along with 450 entries on new topics.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich (Editor)
Publication Date: 1995
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy by Brian Carr (Editor); Indira Mahalingam (Editor)
Publication Date: 1997

Includes sections on Persian, Indian, Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese, and Islamic philosophies.
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition by Edward Craig
Publication Date: 2005

"The reader will find substantial essays on all the major figures of the Western philosophical tradition, likewise on all major topics and those we judged to be of most help to a student readership" (from the Introduction).
African Philosophy by Lee M. Brown (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195114409

Publication Date: 2004

From publisher's abstract: "epistemological and metaphysical concerns that shaped the conceptual languages and philosophical thought of sub-Saharan Africa."