Contemporary Philosophy
April 01, 2000
by Staff, History Collection, Mid-Manhattan Library
This pathfinder provides a guide to reference sources in contemporary philosophy, mainly in the post-World War II period, of both Western and Eastern traditions. These resources are available in the History and Social Sciences Department of the Mid-Manhattan Library. You can search by subject, name of philosophical school or movement, name of philosopher and by geographic region for material on a specific country or ethnic group.
Examples of Terms to Use for Subject Searching:
On philosophical schools and movements:
* humanism -20th century
* logical positivism
* naturalism
* hermeneutics
* pragmatism
* critical theory
* realism
* marxist criticism
* existentialism
* neo-scholasticism
* phenomenology
* transcendentalism
On philosophical subject areas:
* history-philosophy history-20th century
* ethics
* cognition
* knowledge, theory of
* aesthetics
* law-philosophy
* logic
* metaphysics
* morality
On individual philosophers:
Search under the philosopher’s name for works by, about and criticism of the thinker’s work.
On philosophy of different time periods, gender, country or ethnic group:
philosophy, modern-20th century
women philosophers
philosophers– [and name of country]
philosophy– [and name of nationality: Islamic, Indic, Swedish, etc.]
