Resource Guide:
Reason and the Self
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
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.
- Philosophers, Ancient
- Philosophers--Rome--Biography.
- Philosophers -- Greece
- Aristotle
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Platonists
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.
- Epicurus.
- Existentialism
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
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.
- Journal of Philosophy
- Philosophy and Rhetoric
- Philosophy East & West
- Medieval philosophy and Theology
- History and Philosophy of Logic
- Kant Studies Online
- The Internet Journal of the International Plato Society
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
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.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Logic and philosophy : a modern introduction | BC 108 .H27 2010 |
| Western philosophy : an illustrated guide | BC 21 .W434 2004 |
| Politeia in Greek and Roman philosophy | JC 71 .P6 P64 2013 |
| Aristotle : his life and school | B 481 .N3813 2013 |
| Answers for Aristotle : how science and philosophy can lead us to a more meaningful life | BD 435 .P525 2012 |
| The Cambridge companion to Augustine | B 655 .Z7 C35 2001 |
| The quest for the good life : ancient philosophers on happiness | B 187 .H3 Q47 2015 |
| A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought | B 187 .F7 F74 2011 |
| Kant's modal metaphysics | B 2799 .M5 S72 2016 |
| Immanuel Kant : observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime and other writings | B 2758 .F75 2011 |
| Descartes' deontological turn : reason, will, and virtue in the later writings | B 1878 .W5 N33 2010 |
| Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition | B 512 .E66 2011 |
| Epicurus on freedom | B 573 .O34 2005 |
| The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics | BJ 1521 .C17 2013 |
| The philosophy of David Hume : a critical study of its origins and central doctrines | B 1498 .S5 2005 |
| Knowing what to do : imagination, virtue, and Platonism in ethics | BJ 1012 .C45465 2014 |
| . Plato and the divided self | B 398 .S7 P53 2012 |