The Philosopher's Index with Full Text

RR 2016/179 The Philosopher's Index with Full Text EBSCO Information Services Ipswich, MA URL: www.ebscohost.com/academic/the-philosophers-index-with-full-text Last visited May 2016Contact publisher for pricing information

EBSCO's The Philosopher's Index with Full Text covers scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy (aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy and the philosophy of religion). It features author-written abstracts for articles published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.

The Philosopher's Index with Full Text is an easy database to ignore because philosophy is neither a glamorous subject nor one that leads to high-paying jobs. Its sub-disciplines of metaphysics (basic principles, meaning of existence), epistemology (theories of learning), cosmology (evolution of the universe), etc. are equally daunting. But it would be a big mistake to ignore it. Philosophy or, if you will, a world view, outlook on life, a school of thought, underlies every aspect of life. So, the index covers scholarly research in almost every discipline as well as all the major fields of philosophy and related subjects, such as aesthetics, axiology, ethics and logic.

The Philosopher's Information Center is the source for the EBSCO index which comes in two versions. The basic version contains more than 500,000 records and indexes articles from more than 1,500 journals from over 450 publishers, according to EBSCO. The full text version, reviewed here, contains all the content of the basic version, with the...