Philosophy & Professional Ethics
Reference & Circulating Books
Government Documents
Journal Articles
Databases
Internet Resources
Writing Papers & Citing Sources
Job Search
Use the library catalog to find circulating and reference materials, including books, audio-visual holdings, government documents, and periodical titles (for periodical articles, see the 'Journals' section, below). Our catalog uses the Library of Congress (LC) classification system and subject headings. LC assigns call numbers (letters and numerals) according to the book's primary subject. Philosophy materials are found primarily in the B through BD call numbers.
Quick search tips:
- Truncate with ‘?': Searching philos? in the library catalog will result in finding the
following terms philosophy, philosopher, philosophical, etc.
- Put phrases in " ": "philosophical anthropology" or "situation ethics"
- Sort results by ‘Publish date descending' to put newest items at the top of the list.
- Click on the ‘Bibliographic' tab to determine the LC subject headings for an item
and then click on those headings as links to additional material with the same
subject.
- Always click on the ‘Linked Resources' tab to check for electronic access for single
items. In multiple-result searches, the URL box at the right of the screen is a
reminder to look for a web link on the next page (or click on ‘Linked Resources').
For additional search tips, consult the library guide on Using the UNH Library Catalog (OPAC).
If you can't find something in our catalog, please use our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service. ILL request forms for books and articles are available at the library Information Desk, and online from the library's website. You should complete a separate ILL request form for each item requested. Bibliographic citations should be as accurate and complete as possible. Incorrect or incomplete information, such as abbreviations or lack of a publication date, will slow down receipt of material.
Reference and Circulating Books
Reference works, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks and statistical compilations provide concise overviews of a topic. Because of their usefulness, these do not circulate, but remain in the library's reference area, available to all. Circulating books and most documents may be borrowed.
Reference Books: General encyclopedias such as Encyclopedia Britannica or the World Book contain articles on philosophy and philosophers. In addition, specialized encyclopedias provide greater depth and cover less known topics. Here is a small sample of what we have:
Bertrand Russell's Dictionary of Mind, Matter and Morals. Ref B1649.R93 D5.
Concise Encyclopaedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers. Ref B41.U7
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ref B51.C58 2000
Dictionary of Philosophy. Ref B41.L32 1976
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. By Paul Edwards. Ref B 41 .E5. A classic.
Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas. Ref B105.I28 H872 1994
Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Ref B51.094 1995
Circulating Materials, including Government Documents: Fill in a request form for government documents at the Information Desk so that a staff member can retrieve them for you. The series Great Books of the Western World includes many works by philosophers. These are in call number AC1 .G7 (multiple volumes). Search by author or title in our catalog for the volumes containing particular authors' works, or for particular books. The following is a small sample of what we have.
Analects of Confucius. PL2478 .L3
Buddhist Philosophya Historical Analysis by David J. Kalupahana. BQ 4150 .K34
Butler's Ethics by P. Allan Carlsson. B1363 .C3
Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy... 1100-1600. B721 .C3 (1972)
Circle Without End: A Sourcebook of American Indian Ethics. E98.E83 C57 1982
Dhammapada the Sayings of the Buddha. BL 1411.D5 E59 and BQ1372.E54 B97. (Two different translations).
Discovering Philosophy by Matthew Lipman. B21 .L5 1977
In Nature's Interests?: Interests, Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics by Gary E. Varner. GE42 .V38 2002
Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind by E. J. Lowe. BD418.3.L69 2001.
Thus spoke Zarathustra: a book for all and none. B3313.A43 E5 1995
What is philosophy? B2430.D453 Q4713 1994
Professional Ethics: Books on professional ethics will be found classified with the various professions -- engineering ethics with engineering books, medical ethics with medical books and so on. Search our catalog in subject mode using Professional Ethics and other terms you can find by clicking on the grey note when you use the subject term Professional Ethics. Here is a sample of what our library contains.
Code of Professional Conduct: Standards and Ethics for the Investigative Profession. HV8081 .H35 2002
Community as Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters. R724 .HH72 2001
Conflict of Interest in the Professions. BJ1725 .C66 2001
Ethical Architect: The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice. NA1995 .S68 2001
Ethics Handbook, by U.S. Department of Justice. [Gov. Doc.] Paper. J 1.8/2:ET 3/2002
Ethics CD: A Collection of Federal Executive Branch Ethics Laws, Executive Orders, Regulations, Advisory Opinions, and Program Administration Aids. [Gov. Doc.] CD. Y 3.ET:3.16/
Government Documents and Resources
The Marvin K. Peterson Library has been a Federal Depository Library since 1971, selecting about a third of federal publications. Items received since 2000 are listed in our catalog. Earlier items in the collection can be found using other online catalogs. See our guide on Government Documents for more on using this collection. Come to the Information Desk to fill in a Documents Request form so that a staff member can retrieve the item for you. Faculty, students and staff may borrow documents, and everyone may use them. Documents are retrieved whenever the library is open. Note that many documents are freely available online from our catalog -- click on the ‘Linked Resources' tab to get to the live link of the publication.
Journals and Other Periodicals
Popular and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and some annual publications like yearbooks are called periodicals. Go to the Journals at the MKP Library link on our home page to find periodicals in the library or online -- you can search by title, title keyword, or browse by subject. Periodicals are shelved by title, ignoring 'the,' 'a' and 'an' at the beginning of the title. Paper journals are on the lower level of the library, microfilm and microfiche are in the microforms room, also on the lower level. For journals in Government Documents, fill in a request form at the Information Desk, or check to see if they are available online from our Library Catalog's 'Linked Resources' tab. Online journals are available from links on our home page at any Internet terminal -- use the Journals at the MKP Library link.
The following list is a sample of the range of journals on this topic at the Peterson library. The Journals at the MKP Library link provides up-to-date information on titles, dates and formats of journals.
American Philosophical Quarterly; Diogenes; History and Theory; Journal of the History of Ideas; Journal of Philosophy; Mind; Philosophical Review; Philosophy and Literature; Philosophy East and West; Philosophy Now; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy Today; Southern Journal of Philosophy; Teaching Philosophy
Professional Ethics Journals: General and subject specific journals also will include articles on professional ethics (e.g., The Conference Board and Lexi-Comp Online databases deal with the issue of ethics for practitioners in their fields - business and dentistry). Here are a few that specifically cover professional ethics in our library:
Computers and Society; Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy; Hastings Center Report (medical ethics); Journal of Business Ethics: JBE; Criminal Justice Ethics
Finding Journal/Periodical Articles:
Use an electronic index/database or print index to periodical literature (scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers) to get citations to articles on many topics.
Some print indexes to use for philosophy include: Social Sciences and Humanities Index 1907-1974. This became two publications in 1974: Humanities Index (library carries from 1974 to March 2008) and Social Sciences Index, which we have from 1974 to September 2005). These are kept in the reference collection as is Philosopher's Index 1967/68-1980.
If you already have a reference/citation to an article from a bibliography, chapter, print index, or from a database where the full text was not available, then do the following:
Use the 'Journals at the MKP Library' link on our home page to see if we have the specific issue of the journal that you need. Use the title option if you know the title of the journal that you need; use the journal title keyword option if you are not certain of the title. If the journal is available online in a database you can search by article title once you are in the appropriate database. For more on finding articles, or using the Library Catalog, consult our Library Guides on these topics.
If you don't find what you are looking for, come to the Information Desk, call us there at (203) 932-7189, or e-mail us. We can refer you to additional resources, help you search, or you can get an ILL form at the desk to request the article from another library. ILL forms are also available online via the proxy connection.
Online databases are accessible from any Internet terminal via links on our home page. Access them via the Proxy or subject lists. Find them by database name or the name of the provider, such as ProQuest or iCONN.
Web access to subscription resources is provided via a Proxy Connection. Log in with your UNH network log-in. Only currently registered UNH students, faculty and staff are eligible to use our subscription databases. Our Electronic Services Access Policy and our Annotated List of Databases provide more detail, and can be found near the Information Desk or online at our home page from the Library Guides link.
The following lists include some multidisciplinary and specialized databases useful to philosophy and professional ethics students.
General Databases:
Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold and General OneFile from iCONN are multidisciplinary databases providing citations, abstracts and many full text articles from popular and academic journals, magazines and newspapers. Informe! is a Spanish-language database also included within iCONN. Finally there is a link to Philosophy Research Resources.
Professional Ethics Searching Within Subject Specific Databases
In addition to the multipurpose databases listed above, the following are some of the subject specific databases that contain articles on professional ethics for a particular field, such as business, medicine, etc. For a more complete listing, consult our Annotated List of Databases and our subject specific guides, available in print near the Information Desk and online at our web page.
Business Databases: ABI/Inform Complete includes ABI/Inform Global, Trade & Industry, and Dateline from ProQuest, You may also select Hoover's Company Records in a combined search. Abstracts and some full text articles from international business, industry and management journals. Business and Company Resource Center from iCONN includes articles on business ethics. Conference Board Online. Contains reports, articles, and economic data for the United States on management and economic issues. The Management section includes articles on business ethics.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) indexes books, journals and conference proceedings of interest to practitioners in this field, including professional ethics.
Criminal Justice Databases: Criminal Justice Abstracts Includes a thesaurus, which in turn suggests using Values instead of Ethics in a search. Criminal Justice Periodicals Index via ProQuest. Citations, abstracts, some full text. Search ethics & criminal justice; ethics & law enforcement, and more.
CQ Researcher Online is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Search ‘philosophy' and retrieve a list of topics including Intelligent Design; Animal Rights; Children's Legal Rights; and Policing the Police.
CREDO Reference Search or make use of the browse function on Philosophy and Psychology links to several encyclopedias and dictionaries such as the Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought. Through Credo Reference you can gain access to any of a possible 3+ million entries, from 315 titles and 60 publishers.
Emerald Full Text Journals Online. Full text of 175 journals published by Emerald Insight Publishers, with an emphasis on business, management, marketing, human resources, library science and mechanical, electronic and
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition, as well as research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology. Relevant topics include Natural Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Bioethics.
FirstSearch provides access to many databases. A search for Philosophy within the databases resulted in WilsonSelectPlus, SIRS Researcher, and ebooks like The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Available in the library only. Ask at the Information Desk for assistance logging on.
IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service). A database of funding, grant and scholarship opportunities in all fields. Includes useful links to other sites, as well as providing online guides to grant writing. You can also sign up for an e-mail alert service.
Legal Databases: Search statutes, regulations, and other legalities on Hein Online, LegalTrac, or WestLaw. (Note: Westlaw is available in library only.)
Psychology databases include articles on human behavior in all contexts, including business, management and social sciences, and articles on professional ethics in these fields. PsycARTICLES from EBSCOhost. Index with full text of APA (American Psychological Association) journals back from 1894 to the present. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection from EBSCOhost is a comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals from 1965 to the present. Includes book reviews, conference proceedings and reports. PsycINFO from EBSCOhost and iCONN, contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations dating as far back as the 1800s. 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages Citations from PsycINFO will link to full text if it is available in another EBSCOhost database we get, such as PsycARTICLES, or the Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Sociology Databases: Sociological Abstracts covers international literature on sociology, social sciences and behavioral sciences. Entries are drawn from journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations. Coverage begins in 1952 and continues through present, updated monthly. Social Services Abstracts includes citations and abstracts on international literature in the area of social work, human services, social policy, community development, and related areas. Coverage begins in 1979 and continues through present, updated monthly. Sources include journals, dissertations, and book reviews.
Valuable information is freely available on the Internet. However, as with all things, consider the source. Check the ‘About Us' link on the site to see how qualified the organization is to post data, and check to see how recent the information is. Also look at the ‘copyright' link for use policies.
Philosophy Web Sites:
Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive, from Wesleyan University.
Digital Text Archives, from the Institute for Learning Technologies.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Philosophy and Religion, from Lund University Libraries in Sweden.
Episteme links The EpistemeLinks project started in early 1997. There are now more than 20,000 well-categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet, plus several other special features
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Most of the articles in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy are original contributions by specialized philosophers around the Internet; these are identifiable by the author's name at the foot of the article. Others are temporary, or "proto articles," and have largely been adapted from older sources. They are identifiable by the inclusion of the initials IEP at the close, and will in time be replaced by original articles.
Philosophy Pages This site provides an introduction to philosophy, including material written by the site's author, Garth Kemerling. Includes a link to an online dictionary of philosophical terms and names.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.
Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy. From the University of California at Santa Barbara, a collection of sites on various aspects of the topic.
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of B.C., Canada Links to applied ethics resources, starting points in applied ethics, and more.
Associations & Organizations:
The American Philosophical Association The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline.
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics was founded in 1991 with support from Indiana University and the Lilly Endowment to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching of high quality in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the practical-theoretical aspects of their subjects.
The Society for Ethics Established in 1995, the Society for Ethics is an academic society which seeks to promote philosophical research in ethics without promoting a particular ideological creed or agenda, except that of research excellence in ethics.
Professional Ethics Web Sites:
AMA Principles of Medical Ethics (June 2001)
Canadian and International links
Declaration of Professional Responsibility. Medicine's Social Contract with Humanity, an AMA draft.
Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct 2002 (from the American Psychological Association)
Federation Repository of Ethics Documents Online, also from the AMA.
International Symposium for Military Ethics
Oath of Hippocrates, from Antiquity (Internet Classics Archive)
Writing the Paper and Citing Your Research
The library has created Style Guides to citing your sources according to several styles. Search our catalog for handbooks and manuals on the research and writing process using 'writing' and 'handbooks' as keywords. In addition, the Center for Learning Resources in Maxcy Hall, Room 108, assists students writing papers.
The Career Development Office in Maxcy 205 offers assistance with the job search process and résumés.
JobHunter'sBible.com. This encyclopedic website is the creation of Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color Is
Another good place to look for online job postings is the website of a large public library. Most provide a job search center, and their job search web pages provide links to local job listings, résumé assistance and more. The New Haven Free Public Library's list of job-related links also includes links to the New York Public Library's job page.
The Riley Guide offers information on all aspects of the job search, including where to search, résumés, and salary guides. There is a page of sites devoted to job searching for philosophers.
For State of Connecticut jobs, click on the 'Working' link on the front page. One of the links is to the Connecticut section of the America's Job Bank site.
USA Jobs is the official federal government site for those seeking federal employment. Besides posting government positions, the site includes information on student jobs, scholarships, skills testing, and help with résumés and applications.
Voice of the Shuttle: Careers & Jobs. Under 'Academe,' check out Information for Students (scroll down to 'Careers and Jobs') or
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