library reference materials

Dr Tom Kerns
North Seattle Community College

Library Reference Materials

Here are some excellent and readable reference sources which are available in most college libraries

I. Histories of Philosophy (selected for accuracy and readability)

Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, 8 vols

W T Jones, A History of Western Philosophy, 4 vols

Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (a popular best seller in the 1950s)

II. Encyclopedias and Other Reference Works

Great Books of the Western World (54 vols), The Syntopicon, vols 2 & 3

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 8 vols

Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 4 vols

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, 13 vols

Praeger Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Civilization

Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4 vols

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