Resource Guide:
Metaphysics

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought (access through Credo Reference Database)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Philosophers’ Imprint
• 20th World Congress of Philosophy Papers
• Early Modern Philosophy Texts

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Metaphysics
• Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800
• Causation
• Free will and determinism
• Nominalism
• Reality
• Realism
• Anti-realism
• Conceptualism
• Essentialism (Philosophy)
• Mind-body relations, Metaphysical
• Space and time
• Ontology
• Hylomorphism

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• ArchiveGrid
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• Loeb Classical Library
• MasterFILE Premier
• MLA
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Reference
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• PubChem
• PubMed
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Analysis & Metaphysics
• Metaphysica
• Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy
• Philosophy Compass
• Open Journal of Philosophy
• Acta Analytica
• Phronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy (Brill)
• British Journal for the History of Philosophy
• Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
• Thought: A Journal of Philosophy
• Philosophy East & West
• Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.