The Finest Scholarly Resources for Philosophers

Considered the most authoritative index of academic literature on the subject, The Philosopher’s Index features author-written abstracts and incorporates scholarly research published in journals, dissertations, and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.

Offering high-quality indexed records, The Philosopher’s Index covers all fields of philosophy and related disciplines. It features research published since 1940, with some records dating back to the 1740s. The publications covered in this comprehensive database include over 2,000 journal titles coming from 1,100 different publishers in 148 countries with articles written in 44 languages.

Prepared by and for Philosophers

  • Relevant data: philosophers prescreen publications, including interdisciplinary sources, for their relevance to the field of philosophy
  • Consistent indexing: a small team of twelve philosophers, who are experts in their field, index publications without the assistance of machine indexing. Keywords are assigned for all records except book reviews using a custom, standardized thesaurus, which contains more than 25,000 subject headings and 59,000 names
  • Consistent data entry: The Philosopher's Index staff enters all data into the database
  • High-quality data: enables high-quality search results

Subjects Include

  • Aesthetics
  • Axiology
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Logic
  • Meta-philosophy
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophical anthropology
  • Philosophy of education
  • Philosophy of history
  • Philosophy of language
  • Philosophy of religion
  • Philosophy of science
  • Political philosophy
  • Social philosophy