Prepared by and for Philosophers

The Philosopher's Index with Full Text contains full text for many of the most used journals in The Philosopher's Index. The active, full-text, non-open access journal retail value (USD) is $84,419.21.

Unique to the database, the complete backfile of The Journal of Philosophy from 1904 to present is included with no embargo.

Unique Full-Text Journals

The Philosopher's Index with Full Text includes 218 active full-text journals not available in any version of Academic Search.

The Highest Quality Indexing 

The database includes all the expert indexing from The Philosopher's Index with over 2,000 indexed philosophy and interdisciplinary journals and 19,000 indexed dissertations.

A small team of twelve expert philosophers 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. For the researcher, this provides consistency and accuracy across the database that produces 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