The University of Sheffield
Department of Philosophy

Electronic Resources for Philosophers

STAR reading lists

The STAR reading lists provide direct links to electronically available texts on your course reading lists.

Guidelines on writing a philosophy paper, by James Pryor

General and academic writing skills

Encyclopaedias

The best encyclopaedias to consult are:
The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and
The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

E Journals - Find it @ Sheffield

The library subscribes to a large number of major philosophy journals that are available electronically.

E Books

The Library subscribes to a number of books that are available electronically

Internet Resources for Philosophers

Information found on the Web is not always of a good academic standard. The Library provides good 'quality-assured' links to information suitable for academic use in philosophy.

The Philosopher's Index

The Philosopher's Index is an index of books, articles and reviews in philosophy published since 1940. You can search by author, title, or subject.

E-Works from the Library

The University Library has purchased a number of electronic texts of major philosophical writings. These are available to University students online. You can access them from any computer that is part of the University system. Just follow the links below.

Complete works of Aristotle in English

British Philosophy: 1600-1900

Selected writings of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz

Complete works of Rene Descartes. In Latin and French

Full text of John Dewey's works

Translations of major works of G.W.F. Hegel

Kant: Full text of selected works

Kierkegaard: journals and papers

Nietzsche: Full text of selected works

Collected papers of Charles Sanders Pierce

Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill

Full text of Wittgenstein's English Language Work