SHASTA COLLEGE LIBRARY 11555 Old Oregon Trail  *  PO Box 496006  *   Redding, CA 96049-6006

Library Contact:  Carolyn Salas Singh

Courses:  PHIL 6 Introduction to Philosophy, PHIL 7 Ethics and Personal Values
Instructor: Ramon Tello, Ph.D.

Locating Information: Books

Locating Information: Articles

Useful Internet Links: Philosophy

Citing Your Sources: MLA Style

Extended Education Services

Shasta College Library Information

assisted suicide, bioethics, ethics, euthanasia, free will and determinism, logic, medical ethics, metaphysics, moral philosophy, philosophy, philosophy of language,  philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, rhetoric, right to die

• Favorite Philosophy Reference Books

This list is a small sample.  Browse the reference shelves and book stacks at these call numbers for additional titles.

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion : Eastern and Western Thought by William L. Reese [B41 .R43 1980]

Key Ideas in Human Thought by Kenneth McLeish [Reference B41 .K48 1993 ]

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Bioethics edited by Warren T. Reich. [Reference QH332 .E52 1995]

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Paul Edwards [Reference B41 .E5]

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences edited by David L. Sills


[Reference H40 .A2 I5 ]

Handbooks

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich [Reference B51 .O94 1995]

The Oxford History of Western Philosophy by Anthony John Patrick Kenny [B72 .O8 1994]

• Locating Philosophy videos:
• Select Library Catalog from the Library's web page.
• Click on Search/Home and then click on Or Switch to Power Search.
• Enter philosophy in the words or phrase box.
• Scroll down and select VIDEOCASS from the type box.  Click on Search. Nearly  20 titles are retrieved.
• Repeat search with different search terms.
• Online eBooks are electronic versions of printed books.  The Shasta College Library's eBook collection is purchased through netLibrary and includes more than 12,600 titles.  These are available at no charge to the College's registered students and staff.  The Internet also hosts collections of free ebooks.  These are usually older works no longer protected by copyright.

• Locating  Philosophy Online eBooks:
• Select Library Catalog from the Library's web page.
• Click on Search/Home and then click on Or Switch to Power Search.
• Enter search term (ex. determinism) in the words or phrase box.

Scroll down and select Online Book from the type box.  Click on Search.
• Repeat search with different search terms.
• Online eBook is read by clicking on the URL button in the Full Details box.

When logging in off campus, be sure to click on the satellite icon  and have your library card on hand.  The 14-digit number beneath the barcode is your authentication.

• Magazines and Periodicals (EBSCOhost)

What's Hot: Simple to search, retrieve, print or email; Broad coverage of current events and human interest topics.  More     recent articles available in PDF files that maintain integrity of illustrations.
What's Not: Limited coverage of humanities and philosophy.
 
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

What's Hot: Concise, pointed articles on current events topics.  Also includes access to Gale's Information plus reference
program of statistics, government data, and legislation. Searchable by keyword and subject headings.
What's Not: Articles are brief and can be superficial.
 
• General Reference Center Gold (Infotrac)

What's Hot: Simple to search, print or email; Broad coverage of current events topics; Best graphics of all the online research databases.
What's Not: Limited coverage of humanities and philosophy.
 
• CQ Researcher

What's Hot: Simple to search and print or email.  Presents concise, well balanced reports on contemporary, controversial
issues of national importance. Each article contains a chronology, footnotes, annotated bibliography, and web links for
continued research.  A great place to start.
What's Not: Limited number of issues covered.  Slow to load.  Emailing complete issues often fails (although sections can be emailed).
 

A Library Card is required to access most databases from off campus. For information about acquiring a Library Card see "How do I get a Library Card?" on the Library's Frequently Asked Questions web page.

•  Librarian's Internet Index (LII)
Anybody can publish anything on the web.  How can you rapidly find reliable information? The LII is a classified list of over 10,000 web sites. These sites have been previewed by librarians (and if you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?) and are regularly updated.  Try searching on a few topics, both broad and narrow.  For example,  Enter philosophy in  the textbox, click on Subjects and click on Search.  Over 10 sites are retrieved, among them:
• Philosophy Pages is a great beginner's reference.  It includes a  Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names with links to additional websites such as The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (see below).
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains articles from three sources: 1) original contributions by specialized philosophers around the internet; 2) adaptations of material written by the editors for classroom purposes; 3) adaptations from public domain sources (typically from two or more sources for per article).

Books

• The official guide for this style is:The Chicago Manual of Style.  14th ed.  (Reference Z 253 .U69 1993)
• Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (LB2369 .T8 1996) was written to conform with the Chicago Manual of Style and contains sample papers.
• Another helpful (if not official) book is:  Andrew Harnack's Online! : A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources  (Reference TK 5105.875 .I57 .H364 2000)

• Chicago Manual of  Style, FAQ's (official)
• Online (companion website to Andrew Harnack's above mentioned book)

Concordia University's Documentation Guide,  unofficial guide, with many examples, to Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.

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All of the resources listed on this page are available via the Shasta College Library web site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.