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Philosophy Reference Collection

Much reference material in philosophy is still available only in print. Where both online and print are available, the entry links to the online version, with a note indicating additional availability.

  1. Bibliographies and Book Reviews
  2. Dictionaries
  3. Encyclopedias
  4. Specialized Dictionaries, Encyclopedias 

1. Bibliographies and Book Reviews

Philosophy : a guide to the reference literature
ARBA in-depth : philosophy and religion.
Both books are guides to reference resources in philosophy.
The Philosopher’s index.
Article index. Also available in print v.1 (1967) - (2005).
International philosophical bibliography.
Merges the Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie and Bibliografisch Repertorium van de Wijsbegeerte.
Philosophical books.
Book reviews. Also available in print v.1 (1960) - v.48 (2007).
Bibliographie Religion und Philosophie : Deutschsprachige Hochschulschriften und Veröffentlichungen ausserhalb des Buchhandels 1966-1980 = Bibliography of religion and philosophy : Bibliography of German-language University dissertations and publications outside the book trade 1966-1980.
5 vols.
Handbook of world philosophy : contemporary developments since 1945.
Not primarily a bibliography, but includes bibliographies. Supplemented by World philosophy : a contemporary bibliography.
World philosophers and their works.
3 vols.
The collaborative bibliography of women in philosophy.
Includes name and subject index.
Index Islamicus.
Also available in print.
Bibliography of Islamic philosophy.
2 vols.
Resources in ancient philosophy : an annotated bibliography of scholarship in English, 1965-1989.
Bibliography of modern British philosophers.
2 vols.
Pragmatism : an annotated bibliography, 1898-1940.

2. Dictionaries

The Oxford dictionary of philosophy.
Also available in print.
The Oxford companion to philosophy.
Also available in print.
The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy.
Dictionary of philosophy and psychology.
3 vols. in 4 books. Also available in print.
Philosophical dictionary.
Written from a humanist and scientistic perspective. Covers only modern western philosophy.
German dictionary of philosophical terms = Wörterbuch philosophischer Fachbegriffe Englisch.
2 vols.
A world of ideas : a dictionary of important theories, concepts, beliefs, and thinkers.
Written more for a general audience. Specialist reader will probably prefer one of the above.
Dictionary of world philosophy.
Emphasizes the non-western world.
A companion to the philosophers.
Fifty major philosophers.
Dictionary of philosophy and religion : Eastern and Western thought.

3. Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of philosophy.
10 vols.
Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy.
Also available in print, 10 vols.
The Blackwell companion to philosophy.
Divided into 2 parts: areas of philosophy, and history of philosophy. Includes detailed bibliographies, and questions for discussion.
Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie.
2 vols.

4. Specialized Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks

Western Philosophy

The Blackwell dictionary of Western philosophy.
The concise encyclopedia of western philosophy.
Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques.
Still being published. Up to vol. 3.
A companion to ancient philosophy.
The Blackwell guide to ancient philosophy.
The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy.
Wörterbuch der antiken Philosophie.
The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy.
Historical dictionary of medieval philosophy and theology.
Fifty key Medieval thinkers.
A companion to philosophy in the Middle Ages.
The Cambridge companion to medieval philosophy.
The Cambridge companion to medieval Jewish philosophy.
Biographische Enzyklopädie deutschsprachiger Philosophen.
Metzler Philosophen Lexikon : von den Vorsokratikern bis zu den Neuen Philosophen.
Philosophinnen Lexikon.
Dictionary of Irish philosophers, A-Z.
The dictionary of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch philosophers.
The dictionary of seventeenth-century British philosophers.
2 vols.
The dictionary of eighteenth-century British philosophers. 
2 vols.
The dictionary of nineteenth-century British philosophers.
Biographical dictionary of twentieth-century philosophers.
Thinkers of the twentieth century : a biographical, bibliographical and critical dictionary.
One hundred twentieth-century philosophers.
Dizionario dei filosofi del Novecento.
A companion to continental philosophy.
The Edinburgh encyclopedia of Continental philosophy.
Dictionary of twentieth-century British philosophers.
American philosophy : an encyclopedia.
The dictionary of modern American philosophers.
4 vols. Covers 1860-2005.

Non-Western Philosophy

The biographical encyclopaedia of Islamic philosophy.
2 vols.
Islamic philosophy A-Z.
The Cambridge companion to Arabic philosophy.
Encyclopedia of Asian philosophy.
Companion encyclopedia of Asian philosophy.
Key concepts in Eastern philosophy.
Encyclopedia of Chinese philosophy.

Topics of Philosophy

A Companion to metaphysics.
Handbook of metaphysics and ontology.
A Companion to the philosophy of mind.
Encyclopedia of phenomenology.
Wörterbuch der phänomenologischen Begriffe.
Dictionary of existentialism.
Encyclopedia of empiricism.
Encyclopedia of postmodernism.
The Routledge critical dictionary of postmodern thought.
The Routledge companion to postmodernism.
Dictionary of critical realism.
Historical dictionary of logic.
A companion to philosophical logic.
Philosophy of logic (Handbook of the philosophy of science).
Handbook of philosophical logic.
Handbook of the history of logic.
The Cambridge companion to logical empiricism.
Ethics A-Z.
Encyclopedia of ethics.
3 vols.
Dictionary of ethics, theology, and society.
Encyclopedia of values and ethics.
Feminist ethics.
Encyclopedia of bioethics.
5 vols.
The concise encyclopedia of the ethics of new technologies.
Bioethics, health care, and the law : a dictionary.
The Routledge companion to philosophy of science.

Philosophers

The Cambridge companion to Adorno.
The Cambridge companion to Aquinas.
The Cambridge companion to Aristotle.
The Cambridge companion to Berkeley.
The Cambridge companion to Camus.
The Deleuze dictionary.
A Derrida dictionary.
Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian philosophy.
The Cambridge companion to Foucault.
The Cambridge companion to Gadamer.
The Cambridge companion to Habermas.
A Hegel dictionary.
Historical dictionary of Hegelian philosophy.
A Heidegger dictionary.
The Cambridge companion to Heidegger.
A companion to Heidegger.
Historical dictionary of Heidegger's philosophy.
A Hobbes dictionary.
The Cambridge companion to Hobbes.
A companion to Hume.
The Cambridge companion to Hume.
Companion to Husserl.
The Cambridge Companion to Husserl.
A Kant dictionary.
Historical dictionary of Kant and Kantianism.
Historical dictionary of Kierkegaard's philosophy.
The Cambridge companion ti Kierkegaard.
The Cambridge companion to Leibniz.
The Cambridge companion to Levinas.
A Locke dictionary.
The Cambridge companion to Locke.
A companion to Nietzsche.
The Cambridge companion to Nietzsche.
Historical dictionary of Nietzscheanism.
The Cambridge companionto Peirce.
The Oxford handbook of Plato.
A companion to Plato.
The Cambridge companion to Plato.
The Cambridge companion to Plotinus.
A Rousseau dictionary.
The Cambridge companion to Rousseau.
The Cambridge companion to Bertrand Russell.
The Cambridge companion to Sartre.
Historical dictionary of Schopenhauer's philosophy.
The Cambridge companion to Schopenhauer.
Spinoza dictionary.
The Cambridge companion to Spinoza.
Wittgenstein : a bibliographical guide.
Historical dictionary of Wittgenstein's philosophy.
The Cambridge companion to Wittgenstein.